RT Journal Article
T1 Assignment problems in wildfire suppression: a case study on control of flight resources
A1 Rodríguez Veiga, Jorge
A1 Gómez Costa, Iván
A1 Ginzo Villamayor, María José
A1 Casas Méndez, Balbina
K1 Wildfire management
K1 Aerial resource assignment
K1 Integer linear programming
K1 Extinguishing wheels
K1 Refueling points
AB The phenomenon of wildfires has become one of the biggest problemsour forests are suffering due to the high frequency and intensitythat has acquired in recent decades. As the budget and fire resourcesare limited, it is essential to control these catastrophic fires by makingefficient decisions. In this paper, we make use of operations researchtechniques that allow the optimal assignments of aircrafts to extinguishingwheels and to refueling points, which are two important tasksto be performed by the controller of aerial resources in a forest fire.
PB Department of Statistics and Operations Research. University of Santiago de Compostela
PB Society of American Foresters
SN 0015-749X
YR 2014
FD 2014-05-22
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32733
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32733
LA eng
NO 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.
NO 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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RD 1 may 2026