Develop a multi-periods fuel treatments allocation model to fragment landscape high hazard fuel patches
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2013
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Suksavate, Warong, author
Wei, Yu, advisor
Hoffman, Chad, committee member
Kling, Robert, committee member
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Increased forest fuel loading and continuity have led to more large fires that can potentially cause the loss of property, life and forest resources in certain forest ecosystems. Strategically fragmenting landscape fuel patches with the potential of carrying high intensity or crown fires helps mitigate the future fire risks. This research develops a mathematic integer programming model to optimally locate fuel treatment locations across a landscape for multiple decades. Solutions are aimed at strategically fragmenting high fire hazard fuel patches that support high intensity fires or crown fires. This model can be used to schedule treatments in each stand by reacting to fire ignition probability, potential fire damages to wildland urban interface (WUI), streams, lakes, and the cost of fuel treatment. A set of prototype test cases based on artificial data are used to demonstrate the model performance and support preliminary analyses. This theoretical model can be extended to study a variety of fuel treatment related management concerns across space and time when realistic data become available.
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fuel treatment
mixed integer programming