HARVEST OPERATIONAL MODELS IN FORESTRY

Harvest operations have provided many important operations research (OR) applications. The harvesting process incorporates decisions on areas to harvest, how to buck (or cross cut) trees to obtain demanded products by length and diameter, how to locate harvesting machinery, how to build and maintain...

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Autores: Epstein Numhauser, Rafael David, Karlsson, Jenny, Ronnqvist, Mikael, Weintraub Pohorille, Andres Felix
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:Chile
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.anid.cl:10533/166073
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10533/166073
Access Level:acceso abierto
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Sumario:Harvest operations have provided many important operations research (OR) applications. The harvesting process incorporates decisions on areas to harvest, how to buck (or cross cut) trees to obtain demanded products by length and diameter, how to locate harvesting machinery, how to build and maintain roads to haul away logs, and how to distribute and stock logs. We discuss how OR has impacted successfully on these decision processes.