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  2. Specific Area Message Encoding - Wikipedia

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    Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) is a protocol used for framing and classification of broadcasting emergency warning messages. It was developed by the United States National Weather Service for use on its NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) network, and was later adopted by the Federal Communications Commission for the Emergency Alert System, then subsequently by Environment Canada for use on its ...

  3. Emergency Alert System - Wikipedia

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    Replaced. Emergency Broadcast System, Local Access Alert. The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and AM, FM and satellite radio.

  4. Common Alerting Protocol - Wikipedia

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    Common Alerting Protocol. The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is an XML -based data format for exchanging public warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows a warning message to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to many applications, such as Google Public Alerts and Cell Broadcast.

  5. National Emergency Message - Wikipedia

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    National Emergency Message. An emergency action notification test on an Android smartphone; October 3, 2018. A National Emergency Message (SAME code: EAN), formerly known until 2022 as an Emergency Action Notification, is the national activation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) used to alert the residents of the United States of a national ...

  6. Civil danger warning - Wikipedia

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    Civil danger warning. A civil danger warning (SAME code: CDW) is a warning issued through the Emergency Alert System (EAS) in the United States to warn the public of an event that presents danger to a significant civilian population. It is typically issued by a local or state authority and is relayed by the National Weather Service.

  7. Extended area service - Wikipedia

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    Extended area service. Extended area service (EAS) is a telecommunication service by which telephone calls to certain points beyond the local calling area are not charged or not detail-billed. [1][2] If the service is subscribed by a customer, other customers have no access to the benefit and are billed standard long-distance charges.

  8. Advanced Encryption Standard - Wikipedia

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    The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known by its original name Rijndael (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɛindaːl]), [ 5 ] is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001. [ 6 ]

  9. scRGB - Wikipedia

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    The 12-bit scRGB-nl encoding is the linear RGB channels passed through the same opto-electric conversion function as sRGB (for negative numbers use −f(−x)) and then converted by 1280x + 1024. This is exactly 5 times the color resolution of 8-bit sRGB, and 8-bit sRGB can be converted directly with 5 x + 1024 .