Aerospace Technologies and Applications for Dual Use

Publisher Marketing: The events occurred in the last years have shown how the threat related to both intentional and natural disasters could bring the civil and the military worlds closer in the conceivement and deploypment of countermeasures as well as in the identification of effective strategies for enhancing the Planet safety and security. In this frame, the concept of dual use, which refers to the set of technologies and applications that can be exploited for both civil and military purposes, becomes a key-topic to be addressed. In addition, the aerospace is a strategic building block for the deployment of a network centric environment for the global protection of the Planet and its population. Aerospace is also a natural environment for dual use: many of the related enabling technologies have been developed first for the military world and then applied to civil and even commercial purposes. On September 12-14, 2007 an International Symposium has been held in Roma, Italy, joining the dual use approach with the aerospace technology to call the international community around a key-topic for the future of mankind: aerospace technologies and applications for dual use. The event has gathered experts and operators from the military and civil community, belonging to industry, scientific and governamental institutions, all aiming at an effective convergence between the available and perspected technologies for the two worlds and the conceivement of applications that can take the maximum benefit from the dual approach, optimizing the available economic resources. The Symposium has presented invited-only contributions and an industrial panel. The main results of the International Symposium, derived from the key-note speeches, invited lectures, panel discussions and conclusions have been the starting material to create this Edited Book, the first on the topic, that can be considered as a milestone and a key-tool aimed at driving the industrial, scientific and institutional efforts of the international community to gaurantee a pleasant and safe future to the civil citizens, the military operators and the whole Planet.

Contributor Bio:  Prasad, Ramjee Prof. Ramjee Prasad is Director of the Center for TeleInFrastuktur - CTIF - atAalborg University in Denmark, he is also editor-in-chief of our Wireless Personal Communications journal. Prof. Prasad has published some 20 books for Artech House, now he is looking for new book collaboration with Springer. Besides this, Prof. Parasad recently was awaded the Telenor's Research Award 2005. Telenor's Nordic research prize of NOK 250,000 has been awarded to Professor Ramjee Prasad at the University of Aalborg. He is awarded the prize for his impressive merits within the field of wireless and personal communications. Jon Fredrik Baksaas, CEO Telenor, introduced the winner at the Technoport conference in Trondheim 19 October. Each year Telenor selects a theme for the award in agreement with the international award committee. The subject for 2005 is "Enabling technologies and communication based value added services for the home, leisure and professional environments." Personalised services and universal access adapted to available terminals is a vision for the future development of the telecom industry. Dr. Liljana Gabrilovska was Prof. at Aalborg University and recently returned to Macedonia to head a research institute there. Contributor Bio:  Ruggieri, Marina Marina Ruggieri is a professor of telecommunications at the University Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. She is also the coauthor of Technology Trends in Wireless Communications (Artech House, 2003). A Senior Member of the IEEE, she received her Laurea degree in electronics engineering from the University Roma Tor Vergata.