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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Chowdhury, Hassan
Forest fire is a natural phenomenon in many ecosystems across the world. One of the most important components of forest fire management is the forecasting of fire danger conditions. Here, our aim was to critically analyse the following issues, (i) current operational forest fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cameron, Morrison, Baldwin, Kreutzweiser
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tang, Shao
Drones of various shapes, sizes, and functionalities have emerged over the past few decades, and their civilian applications are becoming increasingly appealing. Flexible, low-cost, and high-resolution remote sensing systems that use drones as platforms are important for filling…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schreier, Richter, Schepaschenko, Shvidenko, Hilboll, Burrows
Current fire emission inventories apply universal emission factors (EFs) for the calculation of NOx emissions over large biomes such as boreal forest. However, recent satellite-based studies over tropical and subtropical regions have indicated spatio-temporal variations in EFs…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wisdom, Wales, Holthausen, Hargis, Saab, Hann, Rich, Lee, Rowland
From the text...Summary: 'Haibtats for the majority of early and late-seral dependent species of wildlife have declined strongly from historical to current periods across large areas of th Interior Columbia Basin (Wisdom et al. in press). Strongest declines were for species…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
Aerial photographs from 1935 and 1991 were used in an analysis of vegetation change in the Negrito Creek watershed of southwestern New Mexico. Vegetation maps interpreted from aerial photographs were digitized and analyzed in a Geographic Information System to derive a…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albright, Meisner
From the text...'A fire simulation system combines an underlying fire prediction model with a fire simulation technique. By categorizing the various types of fire prediction models and simulation techniques, we can identify the similarities and differences among the systems. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finney, Andrews
From the text...'The FARSITE Fire Area Simulator is a computer program designed to simulate fire growth using existing models of fire behavior found in the BEHAVE Fire Behavior Prediction and Fuel Modeling System (Andrews 1986) and in the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg, Hardy, Ottmar, Snell, Acheson, Peterson, Seamon, Lahm, Wade
From the text...'Major policy initiatives and implementation of new management strategies are currently underway in both air resource and fire management. Land managers are rapidly expanding the use of fire to manage ecosystems, while air resource managers are accelerating…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Zollner, Bukenhofer, Hensley, Houf
From the text...'Obviously, there are many ways to categorize plants and animals that people are concerned about. For this chapter, the Terrestrial Team focused on the categories public land managers typically must address as part of their planning, habitat management, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guldin, Thompson, Richards, Harper
From the text...'This chapter provides information about the vegetation cover of the Assessment area. The types and areal extent of vegetation in the Highlands are of interest for many reasons. Vegetation cover largely determines the availability of habitat for terrestrial…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coles, Conlon, Cotton, Eisenstadt, Goldfarb, Hutchison, Joy, Wolter
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Imbernon
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson
Lightning is the primary cause of fire in the forested regions of the Pacific Northwest, especially when it occurs without significant precipitation at the surface. Using thunderstorm occurrence and precipitation observations for the period 1948–77, along with automated…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyer
In 2011 BLM funded a five year Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) pilot project within the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPRA). The NPRA was specifically selected due to its mandate of supplying national energy needs while protecting surface resources and its need…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev, Petkov, Wold, Urbanski, Hao
Lidar-data processing techniques are analyzed, which allow determining smoke-plume heights and their dynamics and can be helpful for the improvement of smoke dispersion and air quality models. The data processing algorithms considered in the paper are based on the analysis of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Nelson, Seielstad, Stoker, Jolly, Parsons
Accurate information about three-dimensional canopy structure and wildland fuel across the landscape is necessary for fire behaviour modelling system predictions. Remotely sensed data are invaluable for assessing these canopy characteristics over large areas; lidar data, in…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waigl, Prakash, Ferguson, Stuefer
In coal-bearing areas of the circumpolar North, a region rich in carbonaceous deposits, coal outcrops on south-facing slopes are particularly vulnerable to catching fire as they receive substantial amounts of solar radiation during the long summer days. In this study, we use…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Endsley, McCarty
New media are increasingly used to capture ambient geographic information in multiple contexts, from mapping the evolution of the Tahrir Square protests in Egypt to predicting influenza outbreaks. The social media platform Twitter is popular for these applications; it boasts…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The International Smoke Symposium was held in Hyattsville, Maryland at the University of Maryland University College, USA, October 21-24, 2013. The objective of this symposium was to bring together air quality, fire, and smoke specialists from the research community, non-…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Qu, Liu, Hao, Huang, Zhan
The detection and mapping of burned areas from wildland fires is one of the most important approaches for evaluating the impacts of fire events. In this study, a novel burned area detection algorithm for rapid response applications using Moderate Resolution Imaging…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alonso-Canas, Chuvieco
We present the development of a global burned area (BA) algorithm based on MERIS imagery along with the assessment of the global BA results for three years (2006-2008). This work was developed within the Fire Disturbance project under the European Space Agency Climate Change…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Verbyla
Accurate monitoring of vegetation dynamics is required to understand the inter-annual variability and long term trends in terrestrial carbon exchange in tundra and boreal ecoregions. In western North America, two Normalized Vegetation Index (NDVI) products based on spectral…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hobart
The boreal forest covers 11% of the earth's land surface and contains 37 percent of the planet's terrestrial carbon, which is more than the combined total of both the tropical and the temperate forests [1]. This estimate translates to 703 Pg of carbon with the vast majority…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES