Assignment problems in wildfire suppression: a case study on control of flight resources

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32733
ISSN: 0015-749X
E-ISSN: 1938-3738
DOI: 10.1093/forsci/fxy012

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2014-05-22

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Department of Statistics and Operations Research. University of Santiago de Compostela
Society of American Foresters
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The phenomenon of wildfires has become one of the biggest problems our forests are suffering due to the high frequency and intensity that has acquired in recent decades. As the budget and fire resources are limited, it is essential to control these catastrophic fires by making efficient decisions. In this paper, we make use of operations research techniques that allow the optimal assignments of aircrafts to extinguishing wheels and to refueling points, which are two important tasks to be performed by the controller of aerial resources in a forest fire.

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Wildfire management| Aerial resource assignment| Integer linear programming| Extinguishing wheels| Refueling points

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Rodríguez Veiga, J.; Gómez Costa, I.; Ginzo-Villamayor, M.J. and Casas-Méndez, B. V. (2014). "Assignment problems in wildfire suppression: a case study on control of flight resources". Reports in Statistics and Operations Research 14-03. Department of Statistics and Operations Research. University of Santiago de Compostela.

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The authors wish to thank the interesting proposals, comments, and computing support made by W. González-Manteiga, B. Pateiro-López, A. Riera-Álvarez, two referees, and an anonymous associate editor. This research received financial support from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain through grant MTM2014-53395-C3-2-P, MTM2016-76969-P, MTM2017-87197-C3-3-P, and from ITMATI, Technological Institute of Industrial Mathematics, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, through the Enjambre project, which are gratefully acknowledge

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