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Emergency Alert System — The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the U.S. put into place in 1994, superseding the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) and the CONELRAD System and is jointly coordinated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC),… … Wikipedia
Child abduction alert system — A child abduction alert system is an alert system designed to produce a coordinated response, by the emergency services and media, if a child is abducted. Contents 1 Europe 1.1 United Kingdom 2 North America … Wikipedia
Commercial Mobile Alert System — The Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), also known as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), is an alerting network designed to disseminate emergency alerts to mobile devices such as cell phones and pagers. The Federal Communications… … Wikipedia
Digital Emergency Alert System — The Digital Emergency Alert System (DEAS) was a system managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and designed to alert first responders and civilians in the event of a national emergency. It was based upon and supplemented the… … Wikipedia
Low level windshear alert system — A Low level windshear alert system (LLWAS) measures wind speed and direction at remote sensor station sites situated around an airport.Each equipped airport may have as few as 6 or as many as 32 remote anemometer stations. The remote sensor data… … Wikipedia
European Flood Alert System — The European Flood Alert System project is a European Commission initiative to increase preparedness for riverine floods across Europe. History Following the disastrous floods in the Elbe and Danube river basins in August 2002, the European… … Wikipedia
National Cyber Alert System — The National Cyber Alert System is an email and RSS notification service for the United States sent by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US CERT), which is part of the National Cyber Security Division of the United States… … Wikipedia
Consumer alert system — The consumer alert system (sometimes known as CAS or the ConsumerAlertSystem) is a spyware/adware program for Microsoft Windows that delivers advertisements to a personal computer s desktop. The program has been criticized by users for privacy… … Wikipedia
Copyright alert system — The copyright alert system refers to a framework agreed upon by participating ISPs and Intellectual property organizations in which a third party will monitor file sharing networks, collect the IP addresses of suspected copyright infringement,… … Wikipedia
Airborne wind shear detection and alert system — The Airborne wind shear detection and alert system detects and alerts the pilot both visually and aurally of a wind shear condition. In case of reactive wind shear detection system, the detection takes place when the aircraft penetrates a wind… … Wikipedia
