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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Bernier, Gauthier, Jean, Manka, Boulanger, Beaudoin, Guindon
Fire is a dominant mechanism of forest renewal in most of Canada's forests and its activity is predicted to increase over the coming decades. Individual fire events have been considered to be non-selective with regards to forest properties, but evidence now suggests otherwise.…
Year: 2016
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
Smithwick
From the text...'...calls for the fire-science community to draw up maps of wildfire risk based on contributory factors...' © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ziel, Kurth, Saperstein
Webinar with Robert (Zeke) Ziel, Laurie Kurth, and Lisa Saperstein. Organized by the Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee. Recorded on May 24, 2016.
Robert (Zeke) Ziel: Using FFMC and DMC to assess fuel moisture and use of BUI to help adjust ERC values
Laurie Kurth: Some…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: Jenn Jenkins
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saltenberger
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: John Saltenberger
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Waigl
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: Chris Waigl
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Wildland Fire Library is a collection of long-term assessments, fire progressions, fire behavior reports, and other documents and resources to support fire modeling and assessment of long-duration fires. Each file is tied to some event with a location, a start date, and…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
America's tremendous asset base of protected areas is critical for conservation planning, natural resource management, recreation, public health and more. These include national parks and forests, wildlife sanctuaries, state beaches and parks, county open space, city parks, land…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Hopper
Dominique Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute, and Dave Hopper, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, discussed the need for reliable, usable tools and data sources to meet climate change-related land management challenges. The combination of projected climate change and land use…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Robinne, Miller, Parisien, Emelko, Bladon, Silins, Flannigan
Wildfires are keystone components of natural disturbance regimes that maintain ecosystem structure and functions, such as the hydrological cycle, in many parts of the world. Consequently, critical surface freshwater resources can be exposed to post-fire effects disrupting their…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The National Vegetation Classification is a central organizing framework for documentation, inventory, monitoring, and study of vegetation in the United States from broad scale formations like forests to fine-scale plant communities. The Classification allows users to produce…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Benali, Russo, Sá, Pinto, Price, Koutsias, Pereira
Each wildfire has its own “history”, burns under specific conditions and leads to unique environmental impacts. Information on where and when it has started and its duration is important to improve understanding on the dynamics of individual wildfires. This information is…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allison, Johnston, Craig, Jennings
For decades detection and monitoring of forest and other wildland fires has relied heavily on aircraft (and satellites). Technical advances and improved affordability of both sensors and sensor platforms promise to revolutionize the way aircraft detect, monitor and help suppress…
Year: 2016
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