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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cooper, Wilfong, Peterson
The 10.25 million acres of the Kenai Peninsula Borough in Southcentral Alaska is at risk for catastrophic wildfire due to hazardous fuel accumulations created by the spruce bark beetle epidemic. The All Lands/All Hands Action Plan for FY 2005-2009 was developed for: (1) fire…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Key, Benson
Landscape Assessment primarily addresses the need to identify and quantify fire effects over large areas, at times involving many burns. In contrast to individual case studies, the ability to compare results is emphasized along with the capacity to aggregate information across…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crabtree, Halligan, Saatchi, Aspinall, Despain
The current fire situation with numerous very large fires that regularly cross agency boundaries has shown a major need for improved fuels maps. Small fires require only simple maps that can be hand drawn on large scale base maps during a reconnaissance flight but large fires…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke
Over the past 4 decades, there has been a doubling of the annual area burned across the North American boreal region [1], resulting in new challenges for fire management and intensified concerns about the effect that an increase in large wildfires may have on ecosystems and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morris, Hersey, Thompson, Pawson, Nielsen, Colarco, McMillan, Stohl, Turquety, Warner, Johnson, Kucsera, Larko, Oltmans, Witte
On Monday, 19 July, and Tuesday, 20 July 2004, the air over Houston, Texas, appeared abnormally hazy. Transport model results and data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS), the Measurement of Ozone by Airbus In-…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Lentile, Bobbitt, Hudak
To appropriately use remote sensing methods to elucidate ecological processes, one is required to mechanistically relate actual surface processes; such as changes in reflectance, surface temperature, or fractional cover; to real indicators of ecosystem condition (Lentile et al.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGaughey, Andersen, Reutebuch
Airborne laser scanning of forests provides accurate terrain models and, at the same time, estimates of multiple resource inventory variables through active sensing of three-dimensional (3D) forest vegetation structure. Researchers in forestry and remote sensing have developed…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hudak, Lewis, Robichaud, Morgan, Bobbitt, Lentile, Smith, Holden, Clark, McKinley
The USFS Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) and the USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) produce Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) maps as a rapid, preliminary indication of burn severity on large wildfire events. Currently the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stewart, Radeloff, Hammer
This paper presents a map of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) in 2000 for the lower 48 States of the United States. The WUI was extensive, covering 9 percent of the land area in the lower 48 States and encompassing 38 percent of all homes. Major WUI areas are located along the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, began in April of 2002 and ended in April of 2005. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior. The…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Holsinger
This paper describes WXFIRE, a computer program that computes spatially explicit climate-based, biophysical variables at any landscape scale or resolution using daily weather data, topography, and soils parameters, and a diverse set of integrated environmental functions. WXFIRE…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Riordan, Garwood
This document benchmarks the results of a three year NASA sponsored research project (2003-6) on developing and demonstrating techniques for using single channel C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery for assessing the potential for wildfire in boreal Alaska.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Key, Ohlen
This proposal responds to Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Request for Proposals 2001-1, Task 4. Specifically, the proposed research is in direct response to JFSP statements that research is needed to 'develop, apply, and validate improved remote sensing applications for…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Gabbert, Mangan
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) will sponsor a conference to address fuels management and how to measure success. IAWF has worked with the Interagency Fule Committee on initial planning. There is general recognition of the need for such a conference. We…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Cronan, Camp, Barnes, McKenzie
The Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan recognizes the critical role of wildland fires in maintaining the ecological integrity of boreal forests. Identifying and maintaining natural fire regimes is an important component of fire management and is a wise undertaking from both…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Key, Ohlen, Benson
This research effort is designed to investigate effectiveness of burn severity mapping, using differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) for ecosystem monitoring at the 30m scale. The hypothesis of our research is that the differenced normalized burn ratio, calibrated and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Butler
Fuels management programs are designed to reduce risks to communities and to improve and maintain ecosystem health. The International Association of Wildland Fire initiated the 1st Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference to address development, implementation, and evaluation of these…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Song, Chen, Crow, LaCroix
Landscape visualization is a useful tool in understanding forest dynamics and in assessing various management practices. However, the application of this technology remains very challenging. We propose criteria for landscape visualization so that users can judge the quality of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Computerized and manual systems for modeling wildland fire behavior have long been available (Rothermel 1983, Andrews 1986). These systems focus on one-dimensional behaviors and assume the fire geometry is a spreading line-fire (in contrast with point or area-source fires).…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ager, Bahro, Barber
A library of macros was developed to automate the Fireshed process within ArcGIS. The macros link a number of vegetation simulation and wildfire behavior models (FVS, SVS, FARSITE, and FlamMap) with ESRI geodatabases, desktop software (Access, Excel), and ArcGIS. The macros…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pratt, Holsinger, Keane
A critical component of the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, was the development of a nationally consistent method for estimating historical reference conditions for vegetation composition and structure and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, Manies, Turetsky, Neff
The influence of discontinuous permafrost on ground-fuel storage, combustion losses,and postfire soil climates was examined after a wildfire near Delta Junction, AK in July 1999. At this site, we sampled soils from a four-way site comparison of burning (burned and unburned) and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Girardin, Bergeron, Tardif, Gauthier, Flannigan, Mudelsee
Six independent tree-ring reconstructions of summer drought were calibrated against instrumental fire data to develop a 229-year dendroclimatic-inferred record of fire activity (annual area burned and fire occurrence) on the Boreal Shield, Canada. As a means of validating the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen, Maiersperger, Turner, Ritts, Pflugmacher, Kennedy, Kirschbaum, Running, Costa, Gower
Global maps of land cover and leaf area index (LAI) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) reflectance data are an important resource in studies of global change, but errors in these must be characterized and well understood. Product validation…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES