Dispatch Full Presentation

1. British Columbia Ministry of
Forests and Range:
Dispatch Program

2. Situational Awareness
Airtanker
Base
Initial Phone
Report
Airtanker Request
Airtankers at
base with
various alerts
Airtanker

3. Automated Flight Following
Yellow:
Actively
Tracking
Flight History
for Aircraft
131

4. 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.

5. Aircraft info:
•Speed
•Heading
•Location
•Altitude
Arrow
indicates
direction of
travel

6. Resource Tracking
Initial Attack
Vehicle
All Rotary
Wing
information
Rotary Wing
Aircraft
All Initial
Attack Vehicle
information

7. Incidents
Incident
K20121
Incident
Information

8. Points of Interest
Refuse Site
Tanker Base
Med Evac
Tool Cache
Activate/Deactivate
Points of Interest
Overlays

9. Initial Phone Report
One Button
Resource
Requests
IPR
Location

10. Electronic Airtanker Requests
Real-time
Comments
Request
Location

11. Bearing and Distance Tool
1.Choose a
point or icon

2.Chose from
icon type

3. Closest Tanker to
information

12. Map Engines
Map Layers
Vector
Map
Engine
ESRI
Map
Engine
WMS
Map
Engine
3 D
Map
Engine

13. Protection Zones Boundaries

14. Place Name Lookup

15. Fire Weather Indices

16. Real-Time Lightning
Specify
intervals

Positive and
Negative
Strikes

17. Point ID Tool
Click any point and get
all information on that point

18. NASA Landsat Maps

19. ESRI Map Engine
Fire Perimeter
Ortho Photo

20. 3D Map Integration

21. 3D Maps –
Phone Report/Airtanker Request

22. Fire Prioritization

23. Rotary Wing Management
On/off
contract
button
Real-time
aircraft hours
graphs
Specify
contract
dates
Contract
minimum
hours line

24. Rotary Wing Management
Compare
multiple
resources
History

25. Current Users
•BC
•Alberta
•Saskatchewan
•Ontario
•Yukon
•USFS (old version of this software)

Various features specified by
each agency are included in their versions
of Dispatch
Extremely effective in sharing resources
between provinces. Interprovincial
requests are coming soon. These can be
done in seconds.

26. Interagency Cooperation