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Wildfire Management: An Operational Research Perspective

In: Advances in Optimization and Wildfire

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  • David L. Martell

    (University of Toronto, Institute of Forestry and Conservation, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design)

Abstract

This paper is based on a talk delivered at the 2024 Optimization and Wildfire Conference in Luso, Portugal, on October 2, 2024, during which I characterized forest and wildland fire management from an operational research perspective. I present a brief description of fire management as it is practiced in the province of Ontario, Canada, and focus on how aircraft are used to detect and suppress wildfires there. I then describe how my colleagues and I are developing an aerial detection probability model and daily airtanker deployment models. I briefly describe what I consider to be three important current and emerging problems that I believe operational researchers can help resolve, and conclude by stressing the importance of close collaboration between researchers and wildfire managers when they do so.

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  • David L. Martell, 2026. "Wildfire Management: An Operational Research Perspective," Lecture Notes in Operations Research, in: Filipe Alvelos & Isabel Martins & Ana Maria A. C. Rocha (ed.), Advances in Optimization and Wildfire, pages 169-182, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnopch:978-3-032-03108-2_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-03108-2_11
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