FireFight: A decision support system for forest fire containment

Abstract

The FireFight project is being developed in collaboration with the GRAF wildland firefighting department (Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain). Themain objective is the development of a web-accessible decision support system based on an integrated simulation and optimization framework for optimal wildfire containment. FireFight uses the tooPath (www.toopath.com) web server infrastructure to acquire the broadcasted real-time GPS position of approximately 1,650 land and aerial firefighting resources deployed across the territory. The short-term goal of the project is to help managers in making decisions about the number of extinguishing teams that should be deployed, the design of the water supply chain to bring water and other supplies to the firefighting teams, and the design of the change-of-shift transportation problem.