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Track: Defense and Intelligence
Ray Payette
Canadian Air Force
8 Wing Trenton
PO Box 1000 Stn. Forces
Astra, ON K0K 3W0
CANADA
Telephone: 613-392-2811
Fax: 613-965-2175
E-mail: rcc@blvligs.net
Steve Wood
Search and Rescue Planning - A GIS Solution
Defining Issue: Automation of the present Canadian Air and Marine Search and Rescue (SAR) Coordination Centers (RCC). GIS Solution: The Canadian Air Force's Aerospace and Telecommunication Engineering Support Squadron in conjunction with the Canadian Coast Guard have selected Esri's ArcView Version 3 as the PC-based GIS for the automation project's "Search Master" application. Methodology: The Canadian Department of National Defence is the lead agency for initiating and prosecuting all air and marine search and rescue incidents in Canada. Successful prosecution of an SAR event required ready access to SAR resources. These include primary SAR aircraft, Canadian Coast Guard vessels and aircraft, police, fire, hospital, ambulance, and numerous additional civilian volunteer agencies across Canada. Additional information may be required from military and civilian data sources (e.g., SAR satellites, aircraft registry, ship registry, weather information). ArcView will be the underlying presentation
mechanism for the data set required to make the "Search Master" application the primary decision aid for air and marine SAR controllers. Software: The application is still under development. However, it consists primarily of Avenue, C++, and PowerBuilder. The paper will discuss the process of automating the present manual system, as well as the difficulty of acquiring all the necessary data.
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