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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hann, Shlisky, Havlina, Schon, Barrett, DeMeo, Pohl, Menakis, Hamilton, Jones, Levesque, Frame
The FRCC Guidebook provides step-by-step instructions for conducting assessments with the FRCC Standard Landscape Worksheet Method and an overview of the FRCCMapping Tool GIS software used for the Standard Landscape Mapping Method. The Standard Landscape Worksheet Method…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rodman, Stam
The Municipality of Anchorage Community Wildfire Protection Plan is a collaborative effort in response to the 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA). The HFRA directs communities exposed to wildland fire to conduct a risk assessment and create a hazard fuel mitigation plan…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Finney
Development of the BehavePlus fire modeling system and the FlamMap fire behavior analysis and mapping system and supporting technology transfer material was funded in part under JFSP project #98-1-8-02. After successful completion of that project, development of those systems…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Riordan, Garwood
Alaska currently relies on the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System for the assessment of the potential for wildfire and although it provides invaluable information it is designed as a single system which does not account for the varied fuel types and drying conditions (day…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giglio, Csiszar, Restás, Morisette, Schroeder, Morton, Justice
We present an automated fire detection algorithm for the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) sensor capable of mapping actively burning fires at 30-m spatial resolution. For daytime scenes, our approach uses near infrared and short-wave…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Sorbel
Burn severity strongly influences post-fire vegetation succession, soil erosion, and wildlife populations in the fire-adapted boreal forest and tundra ecosystems of Alaska. Therefore, satellite-derived maps of burn severity in the remote Alaskan landscape are a useful tool in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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Year: 2008
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Andrews, Finney
Development of the BehavePlus fire modeling system and the FlamMap fire behavior analysis and mapping system and supporting technology transfer material was funded in part under JFSP project #98-1-8-02. After successful completion of that project, development of those systems…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Hall, Murphy, Verbyla, Hoy, Allen
There has been considerable interest in the recent literature regarding the assessment of post-fire effects on forested areas within the North American boreal forest. Assessing the physical and ecological effects of fire in boreal forests has far-reaching implications for a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tkacz, Moody, Villa-Castillo, Fenn
Some of the greatest forest health impacts in North America are caused by invasive forest insects and pathogens (e.g., emerald ash borer and sudden oak death in the US), by severe outbreaks of native pests (e.g., mountain pine beetle in Canada), and fires exacerbated by changing…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, Kasischke, Hall, Murphy, Verbyla, Hoy, Barnes
There has been considerable interest in the recent literature regarding the assessment of post-fire effects on forested areas within the North American boreal forest. Assessing the physical and ecological effects of fire in boreal forests has far-reaching implications for a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Giglio, Justice
There is interest in the global community on how fire regimes are changing as a function of changing demographics and climate. The ground-based data to monitor such trends in fire activity are inadequate at the global scale. Satellite observations provide a basis for such a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Beverly, Uto, Wilkes, Bothwell
We designed and developed an internet mapping application to collect data on the locations of forest landscape values across a 2.4 million hectare study area in the province of Alberta, Canada. Four communities in the study area were surveyed and 8053 point locations were mapped…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arroyo, Pascual, Manzanera
Understanding fire is essential to improving forest management strategies. More specifically, an accurate knowledge of the spatial distribution of fuels is critical when analyzing, modeling and predicting fire behavior. First, we review the main concepts and terminology…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bouldin
Aim: I detail several problems and solutions related to estimating pre-settlement forest density from land surveyors' bearing tree data. The data have a high value, so clarification of existing problems is needed in the development of a better theoretical framework in which to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blackard, Finco, Helmer, Holden, Hoppus, Jacobs, Lister, Moisen, Nelson, Riemann, Ruefenacht, Salajanu, Weyermann, Winterberger, Brandeis, Czaplewski, McRoberts, Patterson, Tycio
Annotation: This paper presents a spatially explicit dataset of aboveground live forest biomass made from ground measured inventory plots for the conterminous U.S., Alaska and Puerto Rico. The plot data are from the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES