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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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 Department of Interior (DOI) Office of Wildland Fire and USGS created the Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment Clearinghouse to meet the Monitoring, Maintenance, and Treatment Plan requirements under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). It provides an interactive…
Year: 2023
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Healey, Yang, Cohen
he Landscape Change Monitoring System (LCMS) is a remote sensing-based system for mapping and monitoring landscape change across the United States. LCMS produces annual maps depicting change (vegetation loss and vegetation gain), land cover, and land use from 1985 to present…
Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Provides access to the data used in the GWIS applications. Data from the Current Situation Viewer are provided from the WMS (Web Map Service).
Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Boschetti, Roy
The datasets distributed from the new "County Profiles" portal are designed to be used for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change compliant fire activity reporting and emission inventories. From the new portal, users can access tables, maps and interactive charts that…
Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
A tool that is part of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) providing fire danger forecast up to 10 days in advance, 1-day lightning forecast and near-real time information on active fires, burnt areas and emissions worldwide.
Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Smoke Emissions Reference Application (SERA) database is a compilation of field and laboratory emission factors of wildland fire across the United States and Canada. The SERA database facilitates the analysis and summary of existing emission factors for emissions inventories…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
WildfireSAFE was designed to increase firefighter & fire manager situation awareness and enhance risk mitigation planning in wildland fire operations. It supports the greater interagency fire community in the planning, response, and recovery phases of wildfire management. By…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Tate
e-ISuite is a software program used to manage incident resources. The e-ISuite system is a web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer) enabled application for use at the Incident Command Post (ICP) and in agency offices to manage emergency incidents and planned events. No software…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Swedin, Eagle
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
Year: 2014
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Jimenez
This self-paced math course refreshers firefighters' knowledge of basic math concepts and tools necessary for making math calculations in the field. Topics include calculating tank volumes and flow rates, determining pump pressure and friction loss, understanding maps and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The RAWS USA Climate Archive website provides detailed Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) observations for all stations in the United States, along with weather station information, maps, graphs,and photos. Weather observations are archived, with past and current hourly…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ashton, McDonell, Barnes, Langholtz
ANNOTATION: This Guide is designed for use by Resource Conservation & Development and Extension professionals throughout the U.S. It also contains handouts and other resources to assist in educating respective audience. The Woody Biomass Desk Guide and Toolkit provides an…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Fried, Barbour, Fight
ANNOTATION: FIA BioSum is a concept-based methodology that generates cost estimates, identifies opportunities and evaluates the effectiveness of fuel treatments in region-wide forested landscapes. The BioSum modeling framework incorporates a transportation cost model, a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) assists fire managers and analysts in making strategic and tactical decisions for fire incidents. It has replaced the WFSA (Wildland Fire Situation Analysis), Wildland Fire Implementation Plan (WFIP), and Long-Term Implementation…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FireFamily Plus is a software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) or the Canadian Fire Danger Rating System (CAN). Fire occurrence data can also…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FireFamilyPlus (FFP) is a PC-based software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) or the Canadian Fire Danger Rating System (CFDRS). Fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Lutes, Keane
The Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System (FIREMON) is an agency independent plot level sampling system designed to characterize changes in ecosystem attributes over time. The system consists of a sampling strategy manual, standardized sampling methods, field forms,…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Anderson
Consume is a user-friendly software application designed for resource managers and scientists with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. Land managers and researchers input fuel characteristics, lighting patterns, fuel conditions, and meteorological…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Vaisala Thunderstorm Information System is a modular lightning detection system designed to meet total lightning and cloud-to-ground lightning information needs in meteorology, hydrology, electric power distribution, aviation, defense and telecommunications. Lightning is a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
Lightning causes most wildfires in the western United States, and is a major cause of fire elsewhere in the U.S. Because most lightning occurs with significant precipitation, however, simple predictions of Lightning Activity Level (LAL) do not accurately determine fire ignition…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single source for wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire use and incident management terminology commonly used by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and its Working Teams. The NWCG has directed that…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Wright, Vihnanek, Eagle
The natural fuels photo series project is designed to help land managers appraise fuel and vegetation conditions in natural settings. Each group of photos in a series includes inventory information summarizing vegetation composition, structure and loading and, as appropriate…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The National Fire danger Rating System is a set of computer programs and algorithms that allow land management agencies to estimate today's or tomorrow's fire danger for a given rating area. NFDRS characterizes fire danger by evaluating the approximate upper limit of fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
ArcIMS map services are interactive web-based maps that facilitate the display of MODIS fire detection data in conjunction with other geospatial data layers. Regional maps represent the fire extent as detected by MODIS over the last 12 hours and 24 hours. MODIS state and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES