ion level2">
    <h2 id="mathematical-formulation">Mathematical formulation<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#mathematical-formulation"></a></h2>


<p>This objective is based on the maximum coverage reserve
selection problem (Church &amp; Velle 1974; Church <em>et al.</em> 1996).
The maximum coverage objective for the reserve design problem can be
expressed mathematically for a set of planning units (\(I\) indexed by
\(i\)) and a set of features (\(J\) indexed by \(j\)) as:</p>
<p>$$\mathit{Maximi