A RAND study sought to help the U.S. Forest Service determine the composition of a fleet of airtankers, scoopers, and helicopters that would minimize the total social costs of wildfires, including the cost of large fires and aircraft costs. The research team developed two models to estimate the social cost-minimizing portfolios of firefighting aircraft. Both models favored a fleet dominated by scoopers for the prevention of large fires
| ISBN: | 9780833076779 |
| Publication date: | 16th August 2012 |
| Author: | Edward G Keating, RAND Homeland Security and Defense Center |
| Publisher: | RAND Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 114 pages |
| Series: | Rand Corporation Monograph Series |
| Genres: |
Air forces and warfare Computer science |
A RAND study sought to help the U.S. Forest Service determine the composition of a fleet of airtankers, scoopers, and helicopters that would minimize the total social costs of wildfires, including the cost of large fires and aircraft costs. The research team developed two models to estimate the social cost-minimizing portfolios of firefighting aircraft. Both models favored a fleet dominated by scoopers for the prevention of large fires
Air Attack Against Wildfires features in the following genres: Air forces and warfare, Computer science
Air Attack Against Wildfires is available in Paperback
Air Attack Against Wildfires was written by Edward G Keating, RAND Homeland Security and Defense Center and published by RAND Corporation
Air Attack Against Wildfires has 114 pages
Yes it is part of Rand Corporation Monograph Series series