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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Software for organizing and retrieving digital photos of different vegetation types with associated fuels data. Part of the FMAPlus software.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
PLATA is a Windows-based application for doing economic analysis of a planning project. PLATA does an 'efficiency' analysis, using net present value, cost/benefit ratio, and annual equivalent value. It also calculates trust fund sufficiency, allocates treatment costs by fund…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single source for wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire use and incident management terminology commonly used by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and its Working Teams. The NWCG has directed that…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Donaldson
NFDRSPC is a window-oriented, interactive computer program that processes observed and forecast weather with fuels data to produce NFDRS indices. Other program features include user-designed display formats, on-line context sensitive help, archiving in the standard Fort Collins…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Wright, Vihnanek, Eagle
The natural fuels photo series project is designed to help land managers appraise fuel and vegetation conditions in natural settings. Each group of photos in a series includes inventory information summarizing vegetation composition, structure and loading and, as appropriate…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Biesecker, Fight
Every fuel reduction treatment has its price, and finding that price involves sorting through a confusing array of choices. Among them are which trees to cut, what material to utilize for forest products versus treatment in place, equipment options, and what types of stands to…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The FORBS Program is based on the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS). It utilizes existing Personal Computer Historical Analysis (PCHA), Interagency Initial Attack Assessment (IIAA), and Arc View processes. FORBS is tied to the Suppression Analysis developed in…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FMAPlus(copyright) Version 3 is a state-of-the-art suite of programs for use by resource managers to inventory and estimate surface and canopy fuel loading and to predict surface and canopy fire behavior and resulting fire effects. FMAPlus(copyright) Version 3 enables you to…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fuel Characterization Classification System (FCCS) offers fire managers, air quality managers, researchers, and carbon modelers across the United States a comprehensive, nationally consistent, and durable system of fuelbed classification that captures the structural…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Tirmenstein, Reinhardt, Keane, Gangi, Mincemoyer, Lutes, Finney, Miller
First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Podolsky
Fire Tower lets land managers and foresters simulate how fires spread through the land, allowing managers to conduct scenarios useful in predicting the behavior of wildfires.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FirePlan GIS from SIG uses advanced GIS technology to help identify cost-effective fire prevention solutions. Using the FARSITE fire model in conjunction with Arc View software, FirePlan can help land managers identify and prioritize areas for vegetative treatment. Not only will…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
When fighting a wildfire, it is always important to make decisions based on current and expected fire behavior. That small fire could suddenly blow up (it is a fact that small fires cause more injuries than large fires). If you have a large fire on your hands, you want to know…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Jimenez
FireStem is a computer model designed to aid fire managers in predicting tree mortality based on fire behavior and intensity. The eventual goal is to produce mortality predictions based on fuel information, moisture, and fire behavior for a specified region and a range of tree…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) is a disturbance effects model designed to simulate the tradeoffs between alternative land management practices over long periods of time (up to 300 years) and under diverse environmental conditions, natural fire regimes, and fuel and fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Lutes, Keane
The Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System, called FIREMON (v2.1.1), integrates new and current ecological field sampling methods with remote sensing of satellite imagery to assess the effects of fire on important ecosystem components. The primary objective of FIREMON is…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Lutes, Keane
Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory Database and Data Analysis Software is software that standardizes and simplifies fire effects monitoring and analysis.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Information System is an online collection of reviews of the scientific literature about fire effects on plants and animals and about fire regimes of plant communities in the United States. FEIS reviews are based on thorough literature searches, often…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FEAT is a comprehensive, relational database management system that was developed to support immediate and long-term monitoring and reporting of fire effects in the National Park Service units. The system will make monitoring data readily available at the Park level, with the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behaviour over time, in the context of stand development and management. The Fire Effects Model Extension is a new extension to FVS and the PPE that allows…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Finney
FARSITE has been incorporated into FlamMap and is no longer supported separately or available for download.
Farsite is a fire growth simulation model that automatically computes wildfire growth and behavior for long time periods under heterogeneous conditions of…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
A computer program for calculating fuel loading using the planer intercept of photo series methods. Part of the Fuels Management Analyst software package.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
CrownMass is a comprehensive fuels management tool that can: 1) Determine fuel loading for debris from crowns,boles, and tops. 2) Determine crown mass and the stand's susceptibility to crown fires. 3) Predict fire behavior in resultant fuelbed include crown fire potential. 4)…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Anderson
Consume is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption and emissions from the burning of logged units, piled debris, and natural fuels based on…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
CALPUFF is an advanced non-steady-state meteorological and air quality modeling system developed and distributed by Earth Tech, Inc. The model has been adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in its Guideline on Air Quality Models as the preferred model…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES