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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McCarter
The Lanscape Management System (LMS) is an evolving Microsoft Windows™ application that integrates forest inventory information, spatial information, growth models, computer visualization software, and analysis software into a landscape-level analysis tool. This paper presents…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stage
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), coupled with a new key to structural classes, provided an empirical link between the Columbia River Basin SUccessional Model (CRBSUM) and the real world. The essence of CRBSUM is a set of residence times and disturbance probabilities for…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Berry, Buckley, McGarigal
The ARC/INFO system is a powerful GIS that is widely used by natural resource organizations. FRAGSTATS is an extensively used program that derives a comprehensive set of useful landscape metrics. The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a forest growth and yield model used…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Leduc, Li
To evaluate the respective contributions of habitat, fire regime and colonization-extinction procsses to the distribution of northern Pinus species, we investigated the distribution of P. banksiana (jack pine), P. resinosa (red pine) and P. strobus (white pine) on 117 islands of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Karafyllidis, Thanailakis
The model presented, for the first time, in this paper can predict the spreading of fire in both homogeneous and in homogeneous forests and can easily incorporate weather conditions and land topography. An algorithm has been constructed based on the proposed model and was used…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney, Peterson, Wein
In this study we compare and contrast vegetation development following natural and logging disturbances in a major boreal river valley. Permanent sample plots and releves were established and sampled for vegetation and landscape attributes in June and July of 1993 and 1994 in…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fujioka
A computerized fire weather model coupled with a synoptic model is a powerful means of describing the weather part of the fire environment.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Graham, Holle, Lopez
Present lightning detection networks provide fire managers in the United States with information about potential lightning-caused wildfires. Lightning location information can also be used for other purposes such as planning for prescribed natural fire.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leenhouts
Wildland fire has shaped the conterminous United States for millennia. During the presettlement era between 4.5 and 11 percent of the landscape burned annually. Today approximately 0.8 percent burns annually. Fire emission estimates from presettlement wildland fire and present…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
Natural processes are clearly provided for in the Wilderness Act of 1964. This Act defines wilderness as a large land area which is primarily affected by the forces of nature. In addition, the defined purpose of the Act was to assure these lands were to be preserved and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Ter-Mikaelian, Perera
Potential temporal fire disturbance patterns on a forest landscape were investigated using a fire regime model with four different fire probability functions: (I)forest age-independent; (2) hyperbolic increase with forest age; (3) sigmoid increase with age; and (4) linear…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Harvey
We present a method in which fundamental knowledge of natural ecosystem dynamics of the southern boreal forest may be used as a basis for a new silvicultural approach aimed at maintaining biodiversity and long-term ecosystem productivity under management. The natural disturbance…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
This report evaluates 24 computer-aided decision support systems (DSS) that can support management decision-making in forest ecosystems. It compares the scope of each system, spatial capabilities, computational methods, development status, input and output requirements, user…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fleming
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Andrews, Bradshaw, Chase, Hartford, Latham
The Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) since 1994. The WFAS will eventually combine the functionality of the current fire-danger rating system (Deeming et al. 1977) and the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Latham, Burgan, Chase, Bradshaw
Lightning location data are superimposed on lightning ignition potential and on fire danger as experimental phase 1 map products of the Wildland Fire Assessment System. As pilot components of this next generation fire danger/fire behavior system, the maps are designed to help…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kittel, Royle, Daly, Rosenbloom, Gibson, Fisher, Schimel, Berliner
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saatchi, Rignot
Mapping forest cover types in the boreal ecosystem is important for understanding the processes governing the interaction of the surface with the atmosphere. In this paper, we report the results of the land-cover classification of the SAR (synthetic aperture radar) data acquired…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, French
A wide range of techniques are being developed to map vegetation cover types using multi-date imagery from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. To date, these techniques do not account for severe constraints which exist for the world's boreal forest. Using composite…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Bradshaw
As the Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) (see Burgan et al. 1997 in this issue of Fire Management Notes), it has been abundantly clear that weather inputs are the most…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Harrell, Kasischke, French
The study presented here focuses on using a spaceborne imaging radar, ERS-1, for mapping and estimating areal extent of fires which occurred in the interior region of Alaska. Fire scars are typically 3 to 6 dB brighter than adjacent unburned forests in the ERS-1 imagery. The…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES