The document summarizes the key features and capabilities of the British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range Dispatch Program. It provides an overview of the program's situational awareness tools like airtanker tracking, resource tracking, incident mapping, weather monitoring, and interagency cooperation functions for sharing resources across different agencies.

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