The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Harrell
From the Summary (p.343-344) ... 'Radar imagery is an important source of data for monitoring specific processes and surface characteristics in boreal forests. As with other sources of remotely sensed data, radar imagery can efficiently provide certain types of information,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ahern, Epp, Cahoon, French, Kasischke, Michalek
From the Summary (p.328) ... 'In this chapter, we have discussed a number of methods to monitor the boreal forest by using satellite systems that collect data from the visible and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Although we have focused our attention on data…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Mudd, Stocks, Kasischke, Barry, Alexander, French
From the Introduction (p.274) ... 'There is currently a great deal of interest in understanding and quantifying the extent of natural and human-caused fire in the different biomes throughout the world. In Chapter 8, Shvidenko and Nilsson examined the fire statistics for the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDonald, Harvey, Tonn
Fire, competition for light and water, and native forest pests have interacted for millennia in western forests to produce a countryside dominated by seral species of conifers. These conifer-dominated ecosystems exist in six kinds of biotic communities. We divided one of these…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward, Queen, Seielstad, Hao
Emissions of atmospheric pollutants from vegetation fires can greatly affect local and regional air quality. The near real-time information on the magnitude of fires, the amount of pollutants emitted, and their impact on air quality is critical to fire managers* decisions to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sukhinin, Cahoon, Stocks
A GIS-based method has been developed for mapping weather-dependent fire danger index under the Mission to Planet Earth Program. This method uses information provided by AVHRR and TOVS instruments installed in NOAA satellites. The radiometric NOAA fire danger index has a close…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer
The increasing incidence, extent and severity of uncontrolled burning globally, together with its many adverse consequences, has brought fire into the international environmental policy arena, with growing calls for international action leading to greater control of burning,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bachelet, Lenihan, Neilson, Drapek, Kittel
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhu
In recent years, requirements for consistent and operational burn mapping, using remote sensing means, have been mostly designed to provide support to land management in the field. However, this has ignored a perhaps more appropriate area of application in assessment and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Soja, Stackhouse, Shugart
Boreal regions are particularly significant because these are the regions that are predicted to experience some of the largest temperature increases from climate change. Additionally, this is where the largest reservoir of terrestrial carbon resides, which could be released with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Sandberg, Prichard, Riccardi
The ongoing development of sophisticated fire behavior, fire effects, and carbon balance models and the implementation of large landscape assessments has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuelbed classification that more accurately captures the structural…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neuenschwander, Ryan, Gollberg
From the Preface...'Three factors provided the impetus for holding this conference and workshop. First, wildland fire managers are tasked with increasing the emphasis on prescribed fire and other fuel management techniques as part of an effort to reintroduce fire as an important…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mapping wildfire severity in boreal forest based on aerial photography and remote sensing [abstract]
The paper presents the results of mapping fire severity for the FROSTFIRE experiment at different spatial scales. The finest spatial data was collected before the fire on a grid of 160 intensive and 226 dispersed ground plots designed to study fuel bed and vegetation…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg
Fire is a critical disturbance process in determining the structure and distribution of the boreal forest. Fire in the boreal forest typically replaces most of the dominant vegetation cover, liberates substantial carbon and other elements to the atmosphere and stream flow, and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carbon metabolism of the terrestrial biosphere: a multitechnique approach for improved understanding
Understanding terrestrial carbon metabolism is critical because terrestrial ecosystems play a major role in the global carbon cycle. Furthermore, humans have severely disrupted the carbon cycle in ways that will alter the climate system and directly affect terrestrial metabolism…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Amiro, Chen, Liu
Recent modelling results indicate that forest fires and other disturbances determine the magnitude of the Canadian forest carbon balance. The regeneration of post-fire vegetation is key to the recovery of net primary productivity (NPP) following fire. We geographically co-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tkacz, Moody, Villa-Castillo, Fenn
Some of the greatest forest health impacts in North America are caused by invasive forest insects and pathogens (e.g., emerald ash borer and sudden oak death in the US), by severe outbreaks of native pests (e.g., mountain pine beetle in Canada), and fires exacerbated by changing…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Williams, Barry
Analyses of the patterns of fire in Alaska were carried out using three different data sets, including a large-fire database dating back to 1950. Analyses of annual area burned statistics illustrate the episodic nature of fire in Alaska, with most of the area burning during a…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, French
A wide range of techniques are being developed to map vegetation cover types using multi-date imagery from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. To date, these techniques do not account for severe constraints which exist for the world's boreal forest. Using composite…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, French
Techniques are described for locating and estimating the areas of fires in the boreal forests of Alaska using satellite imagery from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). The basis for these techniques is the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) derived…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, French
Investigations have shown that fires in boreal forests result in characteristic responses which are recorded on ERS-1 SAR imagery. Using one of the many fire signatures observed on ERS-1 SAR imagery, the analysis of the data revealed there is >10 dB in variation in image…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, French, Harrell, Christensen, Ustin, Barry
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) composite image data, produced from AVHRR data collected in 1990, were evaluated for locating and mapping the areal extent of wildfires in the boreal forests of Alaska during that year. A technique was developed to map forest fire…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jayaweera, Ahlnas
The Very High Resolution Radiometer of NOAA-2 and -3 can successfully locate and identify thunderstorms. Since lightning fires account for more than 90 percent of the acreage burned by forest fires in Alaska, this imagery promises to be a useful tool for forest fire control.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hufford, Kelley, Moore, Cotterman
The utility of the new GOES-9 satellite 3.9 um channel to monitor wildfires and their subsequent changes in growth and intensity in Alaska is examined. The June, 1996 Miller's Reach forest fire is presented as a case study. Eighteen hours of sequential imagery coincident to the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hegy, Quenet
The data base of the Planning and Inventory Branch, B.C. Ministry of Forests, consists of approximately 7000 forest cover maps, descriptive statistics, growth information and depletion data. This data base must be current and hence, needs to be updated annually. Maintaining an…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES