System and method for strategic budgeting of initial response for managing wildfires

摘要

The present invention provides a system and method for strategic budgeting of initial response for managing wildfires. According to the present invention, stochastic-integer-programming-based constrained optimization techniques are employed to develop a strategic budget by optimally allocating disaster management resources to disaster events belonging to scenarios associated with occurrence probabilities. According to the invention, certain machine-readable data describing fires may be subjected to computerized data processing, ultimately producing a determination of valid disaster management resources for each fire event, which may be used for strategic budgeting of initial responses for managing wildfires.