The feds wildfire have a dispatching software system...most agencies do too.
They have a manual for it so the capabilities are known.
http://training.wildcad-e.net/WildCAD-E ... g_2024.pdf
And like it says, its likely working with other systems...probably overkill.
I dont know when it started but it supposedly started 11/2003.
..the Angeles Forest has been one of transparency , the other forests are mostly silent dispatching. The feds wildfire have a dispatching software system...most agencies do too.
They have a manual for it so the capabilities are known.
http://training.wildcad-e.net/WildCAD-E ... g_2024.pdf
And like it says, its likely working with other systems...probably overkill.
I dont know when it started but it supposedly started 11/2003.
..the Angeles Forest has been one of transparency , the other forests are mostly silent dispatching.
https://www.doi.gov/sites/default/files ... k=OdXHJe9S
"Quick Facts
6,300: number of people using FireNet (an interagency collaboration tool)
276: number of operational systems reading/obtaining data through IRWIN
2,300: number of active users on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal
18: number of organizations using the Wildland Fire Learning Portal
History
In the past, the development of new technology often focused on the needs of small groups of people without recognizing the potential to serve wider audiences. Dozens of institutions play a role in managing wildland fire. A lack of enterprise planning led to a proliferation of systems used to track data like where a fire started, its size, and how many people had been assigned to it. A lot of money was spent designing and supporting systems that frequently couldn’t talk to one another. This led to inconsistencies in fire reporting and to the duplication of effort: perhaps most keenly felt by dispatchers forced to hand enter GPS coordinates into 26 different systems. A single transposed number or misplaced decimal (in a 30-character string) can locate a fire in a different county or state. Not all systems used the same data format (GPS info comes in different shapes and sizes), further complicating the sharing of key information as fire managers planned their response to an incident.
In 2011 the National Wildland Fire Enterprise Architecture Blueprint directed the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service to jointly develop a shared vision and strategy for investment in wildland fire technology. Staff in the Office of Wildland Fire collaborate with the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies to lead this effort, now known as the Wildland Fire Information and Technology Program (WFIT)."
