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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Paragi, Smart, Worum, Haggstrom
Modern fire suppression has the potential to alter the natural distribution of forest cover types and age classes, which has consequences for resource management. A 21,000 ha prescribed burn to enhance wildlife habitat and secondarily reduce continuity of coniferous fuels was…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Varner
In 2004, there is a new ICS standard for mapping fires using ArcGIS and storing the data in a Personal GeoDataBase. By storing the data in a PGeoDB, it removes all of the complexity of storing different shapes for every different part of the fire in different folders and then…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goodman
During the summer of 1999, geospatial technologies became prevalent in wildland fire management. A group of interagency wildland fire geospatial specialist proposed to the Information Resource Management Working Team (IRMWT) under the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quayle, Lannom, Finco, Norton, Warnick
The Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) in Salt Lake City, Utah uses imagery acquired by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor to produce wildland fire maps for the United States. The 'Active Fire Maps' provide a synoptic view…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greenfield, Smith, Chamberlain
For several years the USDA Forest Service has been making advances to the airborne thermal infrared imaging capabilities for wildland fire detection and mapping. The new 'Phoenix' system represents the first time that a high productivity, digital, geo-corrected product will be…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morehouse, Brown, Christopherson, Crimmins, Garfin, Orr, Overpeck, Yool, Swetnam
Wildland fire regimes in the southwestern United States are a product of complex interactions among climate, vegetation and fuels conditions, fire history, societal policies, and human behavior. Wildfire Alternatives (WALTER), an interdisciplinary fire science initiative at the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baranyi
Enhancements in GIS technology will yield greater functionality for the fire community to make better decisions for wildland fire planning and response. These advances will provide insight into how to best solve old problems with novel GIS technology. The concept of a…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delgado, Mathewson, Horel
During the last couple of years and stemming from the year 2000 fire plan, Land Management Agencies hired 20 meteorologists nationwide to develop fire weather programs at Geogrpahic Area Coordination Centers and to introduce and implement new programs in support of the fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nikolov, Zeller
Reliable forecasting of regional weather and wind flow patterns is critical for effective fighting of wildland fires and operational management of prescribed burns. Accurate forecast of future wind fields, relative humidity, and stability are essential for predicting fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ruminski, Simko, Kibler, McNamara, Kasheta
The Hazard Mapping System (HMS) is a multiplatform remote sensing approach to detecting fires and smoke over the US and adjacent areas of Canada and Mexico. This system is an integral part of the Satellite Services Division's near realtime hazards detection and mitigation…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmidt, Prins
Since August of 2000 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) have been used to detect and monitor biomass burning in the Western Hemisphere on a half-hourly basis using the Wildfire Automated Biomass…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Howard, McKinley
Landsat imagery have been archived since 1972. These data provide an opportunity evaluate historical fires and review the recovery of the burned landscape. These data provide useful insights for management and planning. Landsat-based historical fire atlases have been compiled…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feltz, Moreau, Prins, Claid-Cook, Brown
Over the past 15 years meteorological satellites have been increasingly used for land surface applications, including fire detection and monitoring. Several automated algorithms now provide satellite derived fire products in near real time for hazards applications and to better…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Long
Environmental education plays a critical role in wildland fire management, particularly in fire-adapted ecosystems. The success of Smokey Bear and his fire prevention message has influenced fire management and policy in the United States over the last half century. As our…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller, Davis, Black
We developed a GIS model, BurnPro, to estimate the probability of burning over a landscape. BurnPro estimates the annual probability of burning across the landscape from information on ignitions, rate of spread through fuels, historical weather, topography, and length of the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morton
Members of two caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) herds periodically winter in lichen habitat on the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in north central Alaska, providing an important subsistence resource for residents of nearby villages. Fire is often considered detrimental…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Miller, Landres
Most land management agencies are locked into a reinforcing feedback cycle in which perceived risks lead to fire suppression, leading to increased risks and further fire suppression. Existing tools and approaches for planning fire and fuels management perpetuate this cycle by…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann
A natural fire regime is a general classification of the role fire would play across a landscape in the absence of modern human mechanical intervention. Five natural (historical) fire regime groups have been classified and defined by Hardy et al. (2001) and Schmidt et al. (2002…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
The demand for a nationally consistent condition variable for wildland fire and fuel management developed as a result of the 1988, 1990s, and 2000 fire seasons. Coming internally from administration and agency leadership and externally from Congress and concerned publics the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bobbe
Remote sensing technologies have the capability to provide accurate and timely information to fire suppression teams, land management agencies, and the public. The USDA Forest Service is currently using a combination of satellite and airborne remote sensing systems to map and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sohlberg
Satellite data provide a unique view of wildfire, which can be updated several times per day over large areas. The MODIS Land Rapid Response System detects active fires on a global basis in formats readily usable within geographic information systems. New research utilizes these…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wegener
The surveillance of critical facilities and national infrastructure such as forests, waterways, roadways, pipelines and utilities requires advanced technological tools to provide timely, up to date information on status and threats. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are uniquely…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prepas, Burke, Chanasyk, Smith, Putz, Gabos, Chen, Millions, Serediak
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Podur, Martell, Csillag
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paintner-Green, Sorbel
Two different storms started the Black Hills and Fish Lakes Fires on the Tetlin NWR. The Black Hills fire was started by lightning on July 16th. The Fish Lake Fire was first sighted on July 29th, probably resulting from lighting on July 21st. These two fires were authorized for…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES