Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) have been developed alongside manned aircraft yet have seen widespread use only in the past decade. Their use for miliraty applications has propelled advances in electronics and sensors to yield systems whose capabilities...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Robertson, Galley, Masters, Watts, Kobziar, Percival
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Recent developments in the monitoring of soil degradation processes have used passive remote sensing (diffuse reflectance spectroscopy) and active remote-sensing tools such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and frequency domain electromagnetic...
Person: Goldshleger, Ben-Dor, Lugassi, Eshel
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Wildfire emissions are challenging to measure and model, but simple and realistic estimates can benefit multiple disciplines. We evaluate the potential of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data to address this objective. A total of...
Person: Henderson, Ichoku, Burkholder, Brauer, Jackson
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
From the flap: 'Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford...
Person: Egan
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Fire is an integral Earth System process that interacts with climate in multiple ways. Here we assessed the parametrization of fires in the Community Land Model (CLM-CN) and improved the ability of the model to reproduce contemporary global patterns of...
Person: Kloster, Mahowald, Randerson, Thornton, Hoffman, Levis, Lawrence, Feddema, Oleson, Lawrence
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Long term, high quality estimates of burned area are needed for improving both prognostic and diagnostic fire emissions models and for assessing feedbacks between fire and the climate system. We developed global, monthly burned area estimates...
Person: Giglio, Randerson, van der Werf, Kasibhatla, Collatz, Morton, Defries
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Boreal forests are an important source of wood products, and fertilizers could be used to improve forest yields, especially in nutrient poor regions of the boreal zone. With climate change, fire frequencies may increase, resulting in a larger fraction...
Person: Allison, Gartner, Mack, McGuire, Treseder
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Wildfires that spread into wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities present significant challenges on several fronts. In the United States, the WUI accounts for a significant portion of wildland fire suppression and wildland fuel treatment costs....
Person: Mell, Manzello, Maranghides, Butry, Rehm
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
In land change science studies, a cover type is defined by land surface attributes, specifically including the types of vegetation, topography and human structures, which makes it difficult to characterize land cover as discrete classes. One of the...
Person: Schneider, Fernando
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Fire disturbance at high latitudes modifies a broad range of ecosystem properties and processes, thus it is important to monitor the response of vegetation to fire disturbance. This monitoring effort can be aided by lidar remote sensing, which captures...
Person: Goetz, Sun, Baccini, Beck
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS