A timing-oriented approach to spatial allocation of fire management effort

Forest Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 442-451

  Hof, John ^a   Omi, Philip N ^b   Bevers, Michael ^a   Laven, Richard D ^b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuels management; Ignition delay; Integer programming; Linear programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033852056     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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