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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a forest growth simulation model. It simulates forest vegetation change in response to natural succession, disturbances, and management. It recognizes all major tree species and can simulate nearly any type of management or disturbance at…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Zuuring, Sullivan, Krueger, Wood, Troutwine
MAGIS is computer software for planning land management and transportation-related activities on a geographic and temporal basis in the presence of multiple and sometimes conflicting objectives. The focus is on tactical planning, and MAGIS can be operated in both optimization or…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Zuuring, Sullivan, Krueger, Wood, Troutwine
MAGIS EXPRESS is structured primarily as a timber harvest-road access tool. Two GIS coverages (or shapefiles) are used: Treatment units and Roads. Forest vegetation on the treatment unit polygons is represented using a 'vegetative state and pathway' paradigm. Vegetative 'states…
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
Sutherland, Pilliod
The Wildlife Habitat Response Model (WHRM) is a web-based tool meant to assist fuel treatment planners in evaluating the effects of fuel treatment alternatives on wildlife habitats. WHRM does not provide estimates of wildlife population changes or viability. WHRM is based on…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
WFSA Plus 03 is an automated tool designed to improve decision-making and documentation for wildland fire management. The software helps you organize, analyze and present data used in preparing a Wildland Fire Implementation Plan (WFIP) and a Wildland Fire Situation Analysis (…
Year: 2003
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bradshaw, Jolly, Monahan
WFAS, the Wildland Fire Assessment System, is an internet-based information system. The current implementation provides a national view of weather and fire potential, including national fire danger and weather maps and satellite-derived 'Greenness' maps. WFAS was first made…
Year: 2008
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Elliot, Robichaud
WEPP FuME estimates background erosion rates and compares sediment loads and erosion from wildfire, thinning, prescribed fire, and low and high use road networks for a given topography. Soil and water databases are the same as those used for WEPP. WEPP FuME has gone through…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
WeatherBrief®-NET is a subscription service provided by WeatherBank, offering up to 40,000 weather products. WeatherBank provides weather data and products on a personal level with access through three subscription plans. The WeatherBrief®-NET Commercial Account offers over 40,…
Year: 2008
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Weather Information Management System (WIMS) is a system to collect, store and manage current weather information, and to provide access to historical data. WIMS replaced the Administrative Forest Fire Information Retrieval and Management System (AFFIRMS) as the host for the…
Year: 2003
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Larkin, Hoadley
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server that allows maps of ventilation potential to be…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Sestak
Ventilated Valley Box Model is a screening model designed to predict ground level concentrations of particulate matter and gaseous pollutants under stagnation conditions in mountain valleys. The model assumes completely mixed valley with defined top; simplicity requires several…
Year: 1991
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Roe, Robson, Robinson, Kuit, Frid, Daniel, Carr, Beukema, Bailey, Abraham
The Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) is a user-friendly, Windows-based computer tool which provides a state and transition landscape modelling framework for examining the role of various disturbance agents and management actions in vegetation change. It allows users…
Year: 2007
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
Sutherland, Sutherland, Miller
The Understory Response Model is a species-specific computer model that qualitatively predicts change in total species biomass for grasses, forbs, and shrubs after thinning, prescribed fire, or wildfire. The model examines the effect of fuels management on plant survivorship (…
Year: 2005
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Abraham, Bailey, Beukema, Carr, Daniel, Frid, Robinson, Robson, Kurz
The Tool for Exploratory Landscape Scenario Analyses (TELSA) is a spatially explicit, GIS-based landscape-level model for simulating terrestrial ecosystem dynamics. It helps resource managers and planners assess the consequences of alternative management scenarios at the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Major wildland/urban interface fire losses, principally residences, continue to occur. Although the problem is not new, the specific mechanisms are not well known on how structures ignite in association with wildland fires. In response to the need for a better understanding of…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Smoke Impact Spreadsheet (SIS) model is a simple-to-use, screening-level modeling system for calculating PM2.5 emissions and airborne concentrations downwind of natural or managed wildland fires. As a screening model, SIS provides conservative (that is, tending toward higher…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Chew, Moeller, Stalling
OpenSIMPPLLE is a spatially explicit, landscape level, dynamic simulation system that is designed as a management tool to facilitate the use of landscape ecology concepts in designing and evaluating land management alternatives for a range of planning scales.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Sestak
This program calculates the consumption of fuel, emission of particles, and dispersion of these pollutants produced by prescribed burning of forest and range vegetation.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Sensitive Area Model, or SAM, is a spatial analysis tool that allows multiple-theme overlays, theme buffering, and weighting of input themes to analyze sensitive resource areas within National Park Service units. The model was previously known as the Quiet Places initiative…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Gould
Front line firefighters have another tool that provides a way to be heard and get unsafe situations resolved. SAFENET is a form, and process, that has been in demand by firefighters themselves. It's a method for reporting and resolving safety concerns encountered in wildland…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
RAMS provides a consistent process for developing prevention and fuels management programs. RAMS allows users to prioritize areas within their planning unit, consider various prevention and/or fuels treatment alternatives, and develop a budget. RAMS includes three components:…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES