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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Henderson, Ichoku, Burkholder, Brauer, Jackson
Wildfire emissions are challenging to measure and model, but simple and realistic estimates can benefit multiple disciplines. We evaluate the potential of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data to address this objective. A total of 11,004 fire pixels detected…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Goldshleger, Ben-Dor, Lugassi, Eshel
Recent developments in the monitoring of soil degradation processes have used passive remote sensing (diffuse reflectance spectroscopy) and active remote-sensing tools such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and frequency domain electromagnetic induction (FDEM). We have limited…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fry, Stephens
Descriptions of spatial patterns are important components of forest ecosystems, providing insights into functions and processes, yet basic spatial relationships between forest structures and fuels remain largely unexplored. We used standardized omnidirectional semivariance…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cote, Bouchard, Pothier, Gauthier
In the North American boreal forest, the adoption of forest ecosystem management strategies usually increases the number of forest stands to be treated with irregular or uneven-aged silvicultural systems. However, it is difficult to properly target the stands most appropriate…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Platt
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where human-built structures and infrastructure abut or mix with naturally occurring vegetation types. Wildfires are of particular concern in the WUI because these areas comprise extensive flammable vegetation, numerous structures,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Giglio, Randerson, van der Werf, Kasibhatla, Collatz, Morton, Defries
Long term, high quality estimates of burned area are needed for improving both prognostic and diagnostic fire emissions models and for assessing feedbacks between fire and the climate system. We developed global, monthly burned area estimates aggregated to 0.5º spatial…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aplet, Wilmer
From the text ... 'Policymakers and forestry experts recognize that, after a century of fire suppression, there is a crisis in forest health: fire-dependent ecosystems starved of regular fire cycles now have unhealthy fuel loads and experience unnaturally large wildfires.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mell, Manzello, Maranghides, Butry, Rehm
Wildfires that spread into wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities present significant challenges on several fronts. In the United States, the WUI accounts for a significant portion of wildland fire suppression and wildland fuel treatment costs. Methods to reduce structure…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schneider, Fernando
In land change science studies, a cover type is defined by land surface attributes, specifically including the types of vegetation, topography and human structures, which makes it difficult to characterize land cover as discrete classes. One of the challenges in characterizing a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goetz, Sun, Baccini, Beck
Fire disturbance at high latitudes modifies a broad range of ecosystem properties and processes, thus it is important to monitor the response of vegetation to fire disturbance. This monitoring effort can be aided by lidar remote sensing, which captures information on vegetation…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Godson, Stednick
From the text ... 'Computer-driven prediction models of post-fire soil erosion can aid site prioritization for erosion control measures....... Fire and site characterization by fire crews during suppression efforts could provide information to resource managers immediately after…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Eitel, Hudak
Recent studies in the Western United States have supported climate scenarios that predict a higher occurrence of large and severe wildfires. Knowledge of the severity is important to infer long-term biogeochemical, ecological, and societal impacts, but understanding the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Larkin, Brown, Lahm, Zimmerman
From the text ... 'The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) is a new Web-based system designed to integrate science and technology in support of risk-informed decisionmaking for wildland fires. ... WFDSS replaces three past wildland fire decision analysis and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Watts, Kobziar, Percival
Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) have been developed alongside manned aircraft yet have seen widespread use only in the past decade. Their use for miliraty applications has propelled advances in electronics and sensors to yield systems whose capabilities may be useful for many…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taber, Fay
Analysis of the Holonada Fire (AK‐TAD‐337) which was discovered on June 4, 2010 within the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge (NWR); subsequent spread has been primarily to the south onto BLM land. On June 8, the mapped perimeter was 6840 acres, with no direct suppression action…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Example of long range fire growth analysis of R10100 from 2012 Fire Modeling Workshop
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hinkley, Zajkowski, Schrader-Patton
Aerial sketchmapping is the geolocating of features that are seen on the ground below an aircraft and the subsequent recording of those features. Traditional aerial sketchmapping methods required hand-sketching on hardcopy maps or photos and the translation of that information…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson
The Alaska Fire Portal provides information about fire science and technology relevant to Alaska. the goal is to provide 'one stop shopping' for resource managers, decision makers, scientists, students, and communities who want access to the results of efforts to understand and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rigby
BLM - Alaska Service plans to use SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images to update all 2009 and 2010 fire perimeters. The quick processing time and small file size will allow for all fire perimeters to be updated after the fire season.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parson, Robichaud, Lewis, Napper, Clark
Following wildfires in the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of the Interior mobilize Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams to assess immediate post-fire watershed conditions. BAER teams must determine threats from flooding, soil erosion…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Kasischke, McGuire, Turetsky, Kane
Biomass burning in the Alaskan interior is already a major disturbance and source of carbon emissions, and is likely to increase in response to the warming and drying predicted for the future climate. In addition to quantifying changes to the spatial and temporal patterns of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Abatzoglou
The Desert Research Institute recently published a science brief describing the El Nino weather pattern and its relationship to fire risk and other land management concerns. The brief also introduces a new monthly El Nino risk mapping product that DRI helped to shape.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden
Wildfires are an integral disturbance component of dynamic ecological communities, but for humans to thrive in wildfire-prone regions, they must mitigate wildfire risks to human infrastructure and ecosystem services. Boreal forest and tundra ecotypes have co-evolved with…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boschetti, Roy, Justice, Giglio
A method for the systematic evaluation of the temporal reporting accuracy and precision of burned area products conducted using active fire detections as the reference dataset is described. The method is applied globally to 6 years of Moderate Resolution Imaging…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Using satellite imagery analysis together with computer simulation may improve burn severity mapping
This project compared and contrasted the utility and limitations of satellite-imagery and computer simulation modeling approaches to mapping fire effects and burn severity. The goal was to provide resource managers with tools to more effectively meet burned area rehabilitation…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES