FMIS: A decision support system for forest fire prevention and fighting

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-131

  Wybo, Jean Luc ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Emergency management information system; Forest fire modeling; Forest fire prevention and management; Gis and expert system cooperation

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

FOREST FIRES;

FIRE PROTECTION;

EID: 0032073933     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.669745     Document Type: Article

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