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