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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
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
Hood
The report synthesizes the literature and current state of knowledge pertaining to reintroducing fire in stands where it has been excluded for long periods and the impact of these introductory fires on overstory tree injury and mortality. Only forested ecosystems in the United…
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
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
Schwind, Brewer, Quayle, Eidenshink
There is a need to provide agency leaders, elected officials, and the general public with summary information regarding the effects of large wildfires. Recently, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), which implements and coordinates National Fire Plan (NFP) and Federal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Eagle, Olson
Photo series and their associated data provide a quick and easy way for managers to quantify and describe fuel and vegetation properties, such as loading of dead and down woody material, tree density, or height of understory vegetation. This information is critical for making…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holley, Keane
This visual training aid is designed to provide Photoload users a tool to increase the accuracy of fuel loading estimations when using the Photoload technique. The Photoload Sampling Technique (RMRS-GTR-190) provides fire managers a sampling method for obtaining consistent,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Nenana Ridge Experimental Fuels Treatment Research Project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program and supported with additional contributions from local state and federal agencies. This project was designed to quantify the effects of fuels reduction treatments on fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth, Johnstone
Fire acts as a catalyst and a driver of change. There is a very critical and sensitive post-fire window where fire severity strongly affects seedling recruitment patterns. Climate change could tip this sensitive transition and impact the dominate vegetation type on a large scale.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Earl, Alexander, Mack
Wildfires are a major natural disturbance in boreal forests of interior Alaska and play an important role in determining forest plant composition and productivity by influencing parameters such as nutrient availability, light transmission, and forest floor heterogeneity.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuur, Vogel
Long-term monitoring of changes in ecosystem carbon cycling in response to permafrost thawing and thermokarst development is an important component of understanding the rate at which northern ecosystems are changing. The Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network of the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine, Barnes, Jandt, Dennis
The frequency and size of lightning-caused tundra fires could increase with climate warming and may result in major ecosystem changes in vegetation, soils, and wildlife habitat over large areas of the arctic. Two of the longest monitored sites (28-32 years) in Arctic Alaska for…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth, Lloyd, Nossov, Ruess, Charlton, Kielland
Along the Tanana River floodplain, several turning points have been suggested to characterize the changes in ecosystem structure and function that accompany plant community changes through primary succession. In the past, much of this research focused on a presumed…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
MacGregor-Fors
The array of definitions regarding 'peri-urban' areas do not allow the precise measurement of its boundaries in a city. In this study, I developed an easy-to-use method to calculate the area where urban and adjacent non-urban systems intermingle. To validate that such areas were…
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
Hood
This report synthesizes the literature and current state of knowledge pertaining to reintroducing fire in stands where it has been excluded for long periods and the impact of these introductory fires on overstory tree injury and mortality. Only forested ecosystems in the United…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Drury, Karau, Hessburg, Reynolds
This paper presents modeling methods for mapping fire hazard and fire risk using a research model called FIREHARM (FIRE Hazard and Risk Model) that computes common measures of fire behavior, fire danger, and fire effects to spatially portray fire hazard over space. FIREHARM can…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dickinson, Ryan
As prescribed fire use increases and the options for responding to wildfires continue to expand beyond suppression, the need for improving fire effects prediction capabilities becomes increasingly apparent. The papers in this Fire Ecology special issue describe recent advances…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmoll
The 2009 Nenana Ridge Prescribed Burn proved to be a successful but complex operational and logistical accomplishment. Lessons learned from the fire management perspective include effectiveness of the treatments, specifications for future fuel treatments, operational…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES