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British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range: Dispatch Program
Situational Awareness
Airtanker Base
Initial Phone Report
Airtanker Request
Airtankers at base with
various alerts
Airtanker
Automated Flight Following
Yellow: Actively Tracking
Flight History for Aircraft
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Automated Flight Following
• Satellite tracking status: actively tracked (yellow), inactive (red)
• Aircraft “stack” on bases. When on base tracking status = black
• Aircraft history kept indefinitely. Can click on any point in history and bring up all stats.
Aircraft info:•Speed•Heading•Location•Altitude
Arrow indicates direction of travel
Resource Tracking
Initial Attack Vehicle
All Rotary Wing
information
Rotary Wing Aircraft
All Initial Attack Vehicle
information
Incidents
Incident K20121
Incident Information
Points of Interest
Refuse Site
Tanker Base
Med Evac Tool Cache
Activate/Deactivate Points of Interest
Overlays
Initial Phone Report
One Button Resource Requests
IPR Location
Electronic Airtanker Requests
Real-time Comments
Request Location
Bearing and Distance Tool
1.Choose a point or icon
2.Chose from
icon type
3. Closest Tanker to
information
Map Engines
Map Layers
Vector Map
Engine
ESRI Map
Engine
WMSMap
Engine
3 DMap
Engine
Protection Zones Boundaries
Place Name Lookup
Fire Weather Indices
Real-Time Lightning
Specify intervals
Positive and NegativeStrikes
Point ID Tool
Click any point and getall information on that point
NASA Landsat Maps
ESRI Map Engine
Fire Perimeter
Ortho Photo
3D Map Integration
3D Maps – Phone Report/Airtanker Request
Fire Prioritization
Rotary Wing Management
On/off contract button
Real-time aircraft hours
graphs
Specify contract
dates
Contract minimum hours line
Rotary Wing Management
Compare multiple
resources
History
Current Users
• BC • Alberta • Saskatchewan• Ontario• Yukon• USFS (old version of this software) Various features specified byeach agency are included in their versionsof Dispatch
Extremely effective in sharing resources between provinces. Interprovincial requests are coming soon. These can be done in seconds.
Interagency Cooperation