Air Attack Against Wildfires Understanding U.S. Forest Service Requirements for Large Aircraft

• Main Author: Keating, Edward G. (auth)
• Other Authors: Morral, Andrew R. (auth), Price, Carter C. (auth), Woods, Dulani (auth), Norton, Daniel M. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2012
• Subjects: Database design & theory; Air forces & warfare; Natural disasters; Social impact of disasters; Technology; History; Environmental Science; Sociology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 soci...