Abstract
This manuscript focuses on the increasing frequency and scales of worldwide wildfires and the need for enhancing the effectiveness of firefighting resources. The scope is focused on optimally deploying firefighting aircrafts on aerodromes and airports existing over an area based on fire risk predictions. This scenario is formulated as a capacity-constrained multi-objective optimisation problem where the utility of the deployed resources with respect to fire forest risk predictions is to be maximised, and expenditures associated with the reallocation of aircrafts must be minimised. This formulation is further complemented by including the impact of the distance from the wildfire to water sources in the firefighting utility function. To efficiently tackle this problem a multi-objective harmony search solver is designed and tested in synthetically generated and real scenarios for the Iberian Peninsula. The results obtained pave the way towards the utilisation of this tool by decision makers when outlining their firefighting logistics.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 270-284 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | unknown |
| Volume | unknown |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- forest fires
- forest weather index FWI
- harmony search
- capacity-constrained multi-objective optimisation
- resource deployment
- firefighting logistics
- Fire forest weather index
- Firefighting resources
- FWI
Project and Funding Information
- Funding Info
- The authors would like to thank the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for its partial support under projects ECO2010-22065-C03-02 and TEC2011-28250-C02-02.