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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cahoon, Stocks, Alexander, Baum, Goldammer
New satellite instruments are currently being designed specifically for fire detection, even though to date the detection of active fires from space has never been an integral part of the design of any in-orbit space mission. Rather, the space-based detection of fires during the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alkhatib
Context. Apart from causing tragic loss of lives and valuable natural and individual properties including thousands of hectares of forest and hundreds of houses, forest fires are a great menace to ecologically healthy grown forests and protection of the environment. Every year,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Kimberlin, Arbaugh, Chew, Jones, Merzenich, van Wagtendonk, Wiitala
Understanding the trade-off between short-term and long-term consequences of fire impacts on ecosystems is needed before a comprehensive fuels management program can be implemented nationally. We are comparing three vegetation models that may be used to predict the effects of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Mincemoyer, Schmidt, Garner
Fuel input layers for the FARSITE fire growth model were created for all lands in and around the Gila National Forest, New Mexico, using satellite imagery, terrain modeling, and biophysical simulation. FARSITE is a spatially explicit fire growth model used to predict the growth…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Green, Hedberg, Ohlson
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory, which integrates physical and ecological information,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stroppiana, Pinnock, Gregoire
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kita, Fujiwara, Kawakami
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leenhouts
Wildland fire has been an integral part of the conterminous United States' ecological landscape for millennia. Today wildland fire has to compete with other socially desirable goals for a share of a limited air resource. New ozone, particulate, and visibility protection air-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cleaves
The wildland fire situation is a question of risk. Risk is in essence the exposure to a chance of loss. However, putting concept of risk into practice is quite complex. Each of the parts of any risk — probability, exposure pathway, and loss value - is multi-dimensional,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balice, Koch, Yool
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hokkaido University (HU) is one of the world leaders in developing new earth-observing space technology. Dr. Koji Nakau leads their wildfire remote sensing applications team. He's working with various partners-including UAF-on new satellite-derived products delivered to wildland…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Michalek, Mudd
The importance of measuring and monitoring fire related ecosystem characteristics in forests is recognized and is the focus of several new studies. In this paper we present a discussion on the use of remote sensing for the study of boreal forest fire scar characteristics. Remote…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bentz
FINDIT, the Forest Insect and Disease Tally System, is an easy-to-use tool for analyzing insect and disease population information taken during stand surveys. Incidence of insects, pathogens, and other biotic and abiotic influences on forest ecosystems are summarized using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
The FFI ecological monitoring utilities are an integration of FEAT and FIREMON, two respected, science-based programs used for fire effects monitoring on public lands. Funded by the Interagency Fuels Management Committee and developed jointly by the National Park Service and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goode, Yokelson, Ward, Susott, Babbitt, Davies, Hao
We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This photopoint data sheet is in an excel spreadsheet. It is intended for documentation and the re-creation of plot photos; including location, directions, date/time, camera information, plot description, camera placement and direction of picture, vegetation data, and fire fuels…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Fire Effects Task Group began looking at photo documentation over a year ago with an eye to developing standard methods/recommendations. The photoseries is a basic type of monitoring dataset which is used by all participating agencies in monitoring fire effects,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard
Consume v 4.2 reflects an improved understanding of fuel consumption and emissions in wildland fire throughout major fuel types in the United States. Consume is a decision-making tool, designed to assist resource managers in planning for prescribed fire, wildland fire for use,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weatherspoon
Many U. S. forests, especially those with historically short-interval, low- to moderate-severity fire regimes, are too dense and have excessive quantities of fuels. Widespread treatments are needed to restore ecological integrity and reduce the high risk of destructive,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cruz, Vaillant
The suggestion has been made that most wildland fire operations personnel base their expectations of how a fire will behave largely on experience and, to a lesser extent, on guides to predicting fire behavior (Burrows 1984). Experienced judgment is certainly needed in any…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schoeffler
Recognizing dark bands (dry slots) in satellite water vapor imagery reveals surface and near-surface drying and winds that can adversely affect fire behavior and firefighter safety. A review of the literature regarding mid- to upper-atmosphere influences on wildland fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Ellison, Faulring, Holley, Hornsby, Hudak, Ichoku, Kremens, Loudermilk, Maben, Martinez, O'Brien, Paxton, Schroeder, Zajkowski
An ongoing challenge in fire measurement is obtaining quantitative and validated measurements of fire power (kW m-2) and energy (kJ m-2) across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Our approach to measurement has been hierarchical, where characterization of the fire heat…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES