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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Skeels
The National Interagency Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS) project is a National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) sponsored information systems development project. ROSS is a computer software program which automates the resource ordering, status, and reporting…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Redcard maintains and provides access to the Incident Command System qualifications of people. Specifically, it tracks fire certifications (training, experience, qualifications, task books, target positions, and fitness) for both Forest Service (FS) and non-FS personnel. Redcard…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala, Carlton, Holmquist
RERAP is a Windows based program that helps calculate the information needed to manage prescribed fires, prescribed natural fires, and wildfires. RERAP allows dynamically calculating the risk of undesired fire movement and smoke dispersion.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
RAINS is the Rapid Access Information System, an interactive, web-based, map and database server developed in partnership with the EPA. Together, BlueSky and RAINS allow for quantitative assessment of smoke impacts on sensitive receptors. Air regulators use BlueSky and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Software for organizing and retrieving digital photos of different vegetation types with associated fuels data. Part of the FMAPlus software.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
PLATA is a Windows-based application for doing economic analysis of a planning project. PLATA does an 'efficiency' analysis, using net present value, cost/benefit ratio, and annual equivalent value. It also calculates trust fund sufficiency, allocates treatment costs by fund…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Latham
PLUMP is a one-dimensional time dependent plume model that includes parameterized cloud physics and entrainment. It generates vertical profiles of water vapor, cloud particles, rain and ice, temperature anomaly between the plume and surroundings, and vertical velocity from a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
A module of NFMAS, allows the user to analyze historical wildland fire occurrence for wildland fire planning. PCHA99 allows the user to import fire and weather data for the desired planning unit, review and edit the data, generate fire summaries for further fire planning, and…
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
Donaldson
NFDRSPC is a window-oriented, interactive computer program that processes observed and forecast weather with fuels data to produce NFDRS indices. Other program features include user-designed display formats, on-line context sensitive help, archiving in the standard Fort Collins…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Reinhardt
NEXUS is an Excel spreadsheet that links surface and crown fire prediction models. It is used to: estimate surface, transition, and crown fire behavior; generate site specific indices of torching and crown fire potential, build and test custom surface fuel models; evaluate…
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 Interagency Situation Report (SIT) Program is a web-based application that captures incident activity and resource status information in summary form intended for use by managers. Once the information has been submitted via the web site, it can be accessed and utilized at…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Berry, Bedker
NFPORS is an interagency system designed to assist field personnel in managing and reporting accomplishments for work conducted under the National Fire Plan.
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
Biesecker, Fight
Every fuel reduction treatment has its price, and finding that price involves sorting through a confusing array of choices. Among them are which trees to cut, what material to utilize for forest products versus treatment in place, equipment options, and what types of stands to…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
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
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
Neilson, Bachelet, Lenihan, Drapek, Balduman
MAPSS is a model that was developed to simulate the potential natural vegetation that could exist on any upland site in the world under present, past or future climate. MAPSS operates on the fundamental principle that ecosystems will tend to maximize the leaf area that can be…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Ervin, Rorabaugh
KCFAST allows users to retrieve historical weather and fire data from the National Interagency Fire Management Integrated Database (NIFMID) hosted at the USDA National Information Technology Center (NITC).
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The I-Suite application consists of the Incident Resource Status System (IRSS), Incident Cost Accounting and Reporting, System (ICARS), Incident Time System (ITS) and the Incident Action Plan (IAP). Together, these applications are called the 'I-Suite' (IRSS, ICARS, ITS, IAP = I…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
This tool has been retired and is no longer available. Interagency Intial attack Assessment (IIAA) is a tool used to develop budget requests as part of the National Fire Management Analysis system (NFMAS) process. IIAA is used by administrative planning units to select the most…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Gray
ICBS is the automated cache inventory system designed to assist in inventory control and cost accounting for all items stocked in the National Fire Equipment System (NFES). The application is intended for use by the USDA, Forest Service and USDI, Bureau of Land Management…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The IAMS (Initial Attack Management System) application was designed for use by dispatchers and aviation managers to access aviation data and information that is currently found in a variety of text documents and map systems. The IAMS application has been designed so the user…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES