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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hanes
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) is the cornerstone of contemporary fire management in Canada. Although the System is conceptually robust there are known issues, primarily based on limitations that existed over the last 75 years of its development. One area…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Choutri, Lagha, Meshoul, Batouche, Bouzidi, Charef
The past decade has witnessed a growing demand for drone-based fire detection systems, driven by escalating concerns about wildfires exacerbated by climate change, as corroborated by environmental studies. However, deploying existing drone-based fire detection systems in real-…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saxena, Dubey, Yaghoobian
Fuel ignition potential is one of the primary drivers influencing the extent of damage in wildland and wildland-urban interface fires and it is a decisive factor in planning prescribed fires. Determining the susceptibility of fuels, which vary spatially and temporally, to fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kim, Muminov
Wildfire poses a significant threat and is considered a severe natural disaster, which endangers forest resources, wildlife, and human livelihoods. In recent times, there has been an increase in the number of wildfire incidents, and both human involvement with nature and the…
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
Barnes, McMillan
This report summarizes the National Park Service Interior Region 11 (Alaska) Fire Ecology Program activities, monitoring and research results, and provides a list of outreach/publications completed in 2022. It features studies in Denali National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-St…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Ni, Wei, Chen
Vegetation fire frequently occurs globally and produces two types of water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) including black carbon WSOC (BC-WSOC) and smoke-WSOC, they will eventually enter the surface environment (soil and water) and participate in the eco-environmental processes…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ahmad, Khan, Ahmed, Driss, Boulila, Alazeb, Alsulami, Alshehri, Ghadi, Ahmad
Background: Forests cover nearly one-third of the Earth’s land and are some of our most biodiverse ecosystems. Due to climate change, these essential habitats are endangered by increasing wildfires. Wildfires are not just a risk to the environment, but they also pose public…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kang, Sung, Im
As the majority of active fire detection algorithms have been developed for worldwide applications using only satellite data without considering observing conditions and environmental factors, their performance varies regionally. This study investigates the viability of an…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Research brief on wildfire interaction with invassive weeds
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Li, Zhang
To tackle the problem of missed detections in long-range detection scenarios caused by the small size of forest fire targets, initiatives have been undertaken to enhance the feature extraction and detection precision of models designed for forest fire imagery. In this study, two…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bokhtier, Crawford, Shahroudi
In this paper, we report our progress on integrating a model-based system engineering methodology with a system architectural trade study applied to flight control systems of a locally owned and operated, cost effective Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) design utilizing the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vant-Hull, Koshak
The horizontal storm structure surrounding 92,512 lightning-ignited wildfires is examined in the mid to eastern sections of the United States from 2003 to 2015 using Vaisala’s National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN), NCEP’s Stage IV gauge-corrected radar precipitation mosaic…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ewane, Mohan, Bajaj, Galgamuwa, Watt, Arachchige, Hudak, Richardson, Ajithkumar, Srinivasan, Corte, Johnson, Broadbent, de-Miguel, Bruscolini, Young, Shafai, Abdullah, Jaafar, Doaemo, Silva, Cardil
Protecting and enhancing forest carbon sinks is considered a natural solution for mitigating climate change. However, the increasing frequency, intensity, and duration of droughts due to climate change can threaten the stability and growth of existing forest carbon sinks.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Creasy, Tinkham, Hoffman, Vogeler
Characterization of forest structure is important for management-related decision making, monitoring, and adaptive management. Increasingly, observations of forest structure are needed at both finer resolutions and across greater extents to support spatially explicit management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuels Data is designed for wildland management practitioners tasked with collecting surface fuels measurements in the field It automatically performs calculations and table lookups. Photos and data are linked together, which eliminates the need to diligently sequence reference…
Year: 2023
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The LANDFIRE (LF) 2022 Update represents another step in moving towards an annual update. This update is the first time in LANDFIRE history in which disturbances from the year before are represented in current year products.
LF 2022 includes adjustments to vegetation and fuels…
Year: 2023
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Tsalera, Papadakis, Voyiatzis, Samarakou
The increasing occurrence of wildfires, amplified by the changing climate conditions and drought, poses threats to human lives, the environment and the geographically dispersed infrastructures. Such impact necessitates the prompt identification of wildfires so that appropriate…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The AirNow Fire and Smoke Map provides information that you can use to help protect your health from wildfire smoke. Use this map to see:
Current particle pollution air quality information for your location;
Fire locations and smoke plumes;
Smoke Forecast Outlooks, where…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The U.S. Drought Portal is the U.S. government’s authoritative drought information website. It provides a one-stop shop for data, decision-support products, resources, and information on drought—from drought monitoring and prediction, to planning and preparedness, to applied…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jain, Hood, McKinney, Ott, Urza
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. Rocky Mountain Research Station…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Badola, Panda, Thompson, Roberts, Waigl, Bhatt
Wildfires, which are a natural part of the boreal ecosystem in Alaska, have recently increased in frequency and size. Environmental conditions (high temperature, low precipitation, and frequent lightning events) are becoming favorable for severe fire events. Fire releases…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES