Airtankers are used to help fight forest and wildland fires in many countries, and initial attack airtanker systems can be viewed as complex spatial queueing systems (see, for example, Martell et al. 1984 and Islam et al. 2009). Unfortunately, forest and wildland fire management agencies manage fire across large areas - in the case of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR), one of the fire management agencies with which we collaborate, more than 750,000 square kilometers. Such vast expanses pose special challenges to researchers who seek to gather the data required to model airtanker operations.
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