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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Smail
This presentation will provide spatial fuel analysts an evolutionary assessment on the development of LANDFIRE (LF) fuel attributes. Reviewing the progression of LANDFIRE fuel data layers will point out critical junctures, important user input, processing procedures, and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Toney, Connot, Nelson
Among the myriad of LANDFIRE products available are layers representing forest canopy cover and forest canopy height. These data layers are critical for a number of applications. For LANDFIRE National 2001 forest canopy height was derived using Landsat imagery and Forest…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Long, Toney
LANDFIRE fuel and fire regime products are based almost entirely on various combinations of existing and potential vegetation themes. Since LANDFIRE National's initial release in 2008, a number of revisions to these themes have been implemented both from a mapping and a…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lundberg
To help develop and update LANDFIRE data products, LANDFIRE has relied on a vast collection of geo-referenced data. LANDFIRE 2001 National data collection efforts were focused on vegetation and fuel plot data, which were processed into the LANDFIRE Reference Database (LFRDB).…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rollins
Since its inception in 2003, the LANDFIRE project has employed a wide range of nationally consistent methods in order to produce a large suite of vegetation and fuel and fire regime products for the fire management community. These products have also been found to be useful for…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Peterson
A facilitated panel discussion of the eight presentations (including the introduction) from the the session: Looking Back for a Clear View of the Future: 1999 to 2012 (a concurrent session of the Fifth International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: Uniting Research,…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kurth
Recommendation 7 from the conference and workshop 'Crossing the Millennium: Integrating Spatial Technologies and Ecological Principles for a New Age in Fire Managemen' is:' ...a new emphasis on training that incorporates the latest developments in remote sensing, geographic…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Hardy
In 1998 the General Accounting Office presented to Congress a comprehensive assessment of the wildfire threat to western national forests. The GAO report stated 'In 1995, the [Forest Service] agency estimated that 39 million acres are now at risk of large, uncontrollable,…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Elenz
Recommendation 5 submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board a decade ago stated that "Collaborative approaches to research, development, and implementation of new information and decision support tools need to be encouraged". A number of advances have been made…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Menakis, Engert
Recommendation 4 submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board a decade ago stated that "Technology development, transfer, and communication need to be improved between developers and user communities". A decade ago computer technology had advanced to a point that…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cissel
Recommendation 3 submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board over a decade ago stated that "The process of tool use including comparison, selection, acquisition, training, implementation, evaluation, and support needs national administrative focus, guidance, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Fuels are often defined based on the physical characteristics of live and dead biomass that contribute to wildland fire. Because these characteristics affect the character, size, intensity, and duration of fires, fuels are important to the understanding of fire behavior and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Keane
A 23-minute video in which Robert Keane and Wendel Hann discuss advances in fire technology, particularly modeling, assessments, and mapping, since 2000, and technological needs for the future, including those that include climate change. Presented at the Fifth International…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
In this presentation, Kevin Ryan provides a welcome, background, and goals for the session: "Looking Back for a Clear View of the Future: 1999 to 2012," a concurrent session of the Fifth International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: Uniting Research, Education, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Werth
Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
This webinar will provide an introduction to the new edition of the Rainbow series that provides fire and land management professionals and policy makers with a greater understanding of the value of cultural resource protection and the methods available to evaluate and mitigate…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Betancourt
In October 1997, I attended a conference in Park City, Utah on the Future of Wildland Fire Research. Billed as 'an experiment, a beginning,' this seminal workshop developed action plans to create an interdepartmental competitive grants program, a coordinated response to managing…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
The active involvement and support of the public will be central to efforts to restore resilience and foster fire adapted landscapes. One barrier to effectively engaging the public may be that many of the accepted descriptions related to the public and wildfire are based…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Jones
The FRCC Mapping Tool quantifies the departure of vegetation conditions and fire regimes from a set of reference conditions representing the historical range of variation. The tool, which operates from an ArcGIS platform, derives several metrics of departure (e.g., vegetation…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Recent science communication studies of the federal fire management community suggest managers access research via informal information networks, and that these networks vary by both agency and position. We used a phone survey to understand the informal science communication…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant
Wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning on federal lands in the U.S. is a complex problem that often requires advanced fire behavior modeling and intensive spatial data analyses. Both the benefits and potential impacts of proposed fuel treatments must be…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Picotte, Lecker
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) is a multi-year, interagency project designed to consistently map the location, extent and associated burn severity of large fires occurring on all lands of the United States from 1984 to present. The suite of mapping, data and analysis…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ager
The Landscape Treatment Designer (LTD) is a multicriteria spatial prioritization and optimization system to help design and explore landscape fuel treatment scenarios. The program fills a gap between fire model programs such as FlamMap, and planning systems such as ArcFuels, in…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett
Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) is an interagency, standardized tool for determining the degree of departure from reference condition vegetation structure and composition and fire regimes. FRCC metrics can help guide management objectives and set priorities for treatments.…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strand, Hyde
WFAT provides an interface between ArcMap, FlamMap 5, and the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), combining their strengths into a spatial fire behavior and fire effects analysis tool in GIS. In the webinar, you will learn how to use WFAT to locate potential fuel treatment…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES