Basing airtankers for forest fire control in Ontario

Operations Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 676-686

  Maclellan, James I ^a   Martell, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; FIRES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

AIRTANKER DEPLOYMENT; FOREST FIRE CONTROL;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0030232872     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.44.5.677     Document Type: Article

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