Towards an integrated framework for forest fire control

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 476-486

  Dimopoulou, Maria ^a   Giannikos, Ioannis ^b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Forest management; GIS; Mathematical programming; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

FOREST FIRE CONTROL;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141866725     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00038-9     Document Type: Article

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