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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ghali, Akhloufi
Wildland fires are one of the most dangerous natural risks, causing significant economic damage and loss of lives worldwide. Every year, millions of hectares are lost, and experts warn that the frequency and severity of wildfires will increase in the coming years due to climate…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Wooster
The Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) senses the Earth from onboard two concurrently operating European Copernicus Sentinel-3 (S3) satellites. As the Terra platform carrying the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is reaching its end of life,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Mao, Ricciuto, Jin, Yu, Shi, Wullschleger, Tang, Liu
Contemporary fire dynamics is one of the most complex and least understood land surface phenomena. Global fire controls related to climate, vegetation, and anthropogenic activity are usually intertwined, and difficult to disentangle in a quantitative way. Here, we leveraged an…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Almeida, Viegas, Ribeiro
The ninth International Conference on Forest Fire Research, together with the 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit was held in November 2022. This joint conference brought together several hundred presentations in the field of wildfire research. This special issue of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
St. Denis, Short, McConnell, Cook, Mietkiewicz, Buckland, Balch
This paper describes a dataset mined from the public archive (1999–2020) of the US National Incident Management System Incident Status Summary (ICS-209) forms (a total of 187,160 reports for 35,170 incidents, including 34,478 wildland fires). This system captures detailed daily/…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pilgrim
Kristy Pilgrim is a Researcher for the Wildlife and Terrestrial Ecosystems program at Rocky Mountain Research Station, and Laboratory Supervisor for the National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation. She presents interesting case studies of DNA species…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Eroglu
Scientific studies are increasing day by day with the development of technology. Today, more than 171 billion academic records are made available to researchers via the Web of Science database, which is frequently followed by the scientific community, and is where records of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ding, Wang, Fu, Zhang, Wang
Satellite remote sensing plays an important role in wildfire detection. Methods using the brightness and temperature difference of remote sensing images to determine if a wildfire has occurred are one of the main research directions of forest fire monitoring. However, common…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaur, Kaur, Singh, Kim
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have proven to be incredibly useful for forest applications that rely on sensing technologies for event detection and monitoring. This radical sensing technology has revolutionized data gathering, analysis, and application. Despite the many…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rjoub, Alsharoa, Masadeh
Numerous hectares of land are destroyed by wildfires every year, causing harm to the environment, the economy, and the ecology. More than fifty million acres have burned in several states as a result of recent forest fires in the Western United States and Australia. According to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wu, Li, Li, Zhang, Liu, Zhao, Shen, Hao, Zhang
Fire, as a strong disturbance type, can exert significant impacts on the biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere and human society. It can inherently trigger both critical transitions in ecosystems and dramatic changes in land cover. However, the general…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Panda, Badola, Smith
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Wildfires are a natural and essential part of our ecosystem, recycling soil nutrients and renewing healthy forests. In Alaska, around one million acres (4000 km2) burn every year, and record years have seen as many as six million acres burned. Most of these…
Year: 2023
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Grabinski
The 2nd Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) Research-to-Operations (R2O) workshop convened May 12-13 at the University of Alaska Murie Building.The 1.5-day workshop was held following NASA ABoVE’s 8th Annual Science Team Meeting as an opportunity for researchers and managers…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stahl, Andrus, Hicke, Hudak, Bright, Meddens
Remote sensing is widely used to detect forest disturbances (e.g., wildfires, harvest, or outbreaks of pathogens or insects) over spatiotemporal scales that are infeasible to capture with field surveys. To understand forest ecosystem dynamics and the ecological role of human and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Khan
Wildfires kill and injure people, destroy residences, pollute the air, and cause economic loss. In this paper, a low-power Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensor network is developed, which automatically detects fires in forests and sends the location to a central monitoring…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Warneke, Schwarz, Dibb, Kalashnikova, Frost, Al-Saadi, Brown, Brewer, Soja, Seidel, Washenfelder, Wiggins, Moore, Anderson, Jordan, Yacovitch, Herndon, Liu, Kuwayama, Jaffe, Johnston, Selimovic, Yokelson, Giles, Holben, Goloub, Popovici, Trainer, Kumar, Pierce, Fahey, Roberts, Gargulinski, Peterson, Ye, Thapa, Saide, Fite, Holmes, Wang, Coggon, Decker, Stockwell, Xu, Gkatzelis, Aikin, Lefer, Kaspari, Griffin, Zeng, Weber, Hastings, Chai, Wolfe, Hanisco, Liao, Campuzano-Jost, Guo, Jimenez, Crawford
The NOAA/NASA FIREX-AQ (Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality) experiment was a multi-agency, inter-disciplinary research effort to: (1) obtain detailed measurements of trace gas and aerosol emissions from wildfires and prescribed fires using aircraft…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crowley, Stockdale, Johnston, Wulder, Liu, McCarty, Rieb, Cardille, White
Fire seasons have become increasingly variable and extreme due to changing climatological, ecological, and social conditions. Earth observation data are critical for monitoring fires and their impacts. Herein, we present a whole-system framework for identifying and synthesizing…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Badola
Wildfires are a natural and essential part of Alaska ecosystems, but excessive wildfires pose a risk to the ecosystem's health and diversity, as well as to human life and property. To manage wildfires effectively, vegetation/fuel maps play a critical role in identifying high-…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Massey, Rogers, Berner, Cooperdock, Mack, Walker, Goetz
Deciduous tree cover is expected to increase in North American boreal forests with climate warming and wildfire. This shift in composition has the potential to generate biophysical cooling via increased land surface albedo. Here we use Landsat-derived maps of continuous tree…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrada, Russell, Arevalo-Ramirez, Kuang, Kantor, Yandun
This paper presents a comprehensive forest mapping system using a customized drone payload equipped with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), cameras, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors. The goal is to develop an efficient…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Viegas, Ribeiro
The 9th International Conference on Forest Fire Research, organised by the Forest Fire Research Center of the Association for Developmental of Industrial Aerodynamics every 4 years since 1990, was held in November 2022 in Coimbra, Portugal. The conference was held in conjunction…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smail, Martin
A practitioner-oriented overview of LANDFIRE with a focus on fuels and how they react to modeling techniques. The subject area of discussion is the 2022 Cooks Peak fire located in northern New Mexico. This webinar is technical in its application and may offer insights for both…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Calef, Schmidt, Varvak, Ziel
The boreal forest of northwestern North America covers an extensive area, contains vast amounts of carbon in its vegetation and soil, and is characterized by extensive wildfires. Catastrophic crown fires in these forests are fueled predominantly by only two evergreen needle-leaf…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pan, Zhang
Wildfire is a growing concern worldwide with significant impacts on human lives and the environment. This study aimed to provide an overview of the current trends and research gaps in wildfire prediction by conducting a bibliometric analysis of papers in the Web of Science and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES