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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Finney
FlamMap is a fire analysis desktop application that runs in a 64-bit Windows Operating System environment. It can simulate potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.), fire growth and spread and conditional burn probabilities…
Year: 2022
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Improving fire outcomes for communities requires local organizing and action. The Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) Pathways Tool helps communities identify a set of strategies which are tailored to their strengths and needs, and based on practices which have been successful in…
Year: 2022
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Fuels Data is designed for wildland management practitioners tasked with collecting surface fuels measurements in the field It automatically performs calculations and table lookups. Photos and data are linked together, which eliminates the need to diligently sequence reference…
Year: 2023
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Provides access to the data used in the GWIS applications. Data from the Current Situation Viewer are provided from the WMS (Web Map Service).
Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
A tool that is part of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) providing fire danger forecast up to 10 days in advance, 1-day lightning forecast and near-real time information on active fires, burnt areas and emissions worldwide.
Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
WildfireSAFE was designed to increase firefighter & fire manager situation awareness and enhance risk mitigation planning in wildland fire operations. It supports the greater interagency fire community in the planning, response, and recovery phases of wildfire management. By…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Friggens
FireCLIME (Fire-Climate Landscape Interactions in Montane Ecosystems) Vulnerability Assessment v3.1 is a macro-enabled Excel file (xlsm). A user guide is also available below.
Year: 2019
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Perrakis
This tool allows users to look at fire behavior characteristics (rate of spread and fireline intensity) for multiple fuel types on the same graph. Other factors, including Initial Spread Index, Buildup Index, and Foliar Moisture Content can be adjusted as well. This chart was…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Scott
This tool allows users to look at fire behavior characteristics (such as rate of spread, fireline intensity, flame length, heat per unit area, and wind adjustment factor) for multiple fuel types on the same graph. Other factors such as moisture content, understory vegetation…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Swedin, Eagle
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
Year: 2014
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The National Fuel Moisture Database is a web-based query system that enables users to view sampled and measured live- and dead-fuel moisture information. The system utilizes a database that is routinely updated by fuels specialists who monitor, sample and calculate fuel moisture…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Prichard, Ottmar
Fuel and Fire Tools (FFT) is a software application that integrates the Fuel Characteristics Classification System (version 3.0), Consume (version 4.2), FEPS (version 2.0), Pile Calculator, and Digital Photo Series into a single user interface. All of the tools were developed…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Bramel, Dousset, Finlayson, Hamilton
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Bramel, Dousset, Finlayson, Hamilton
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Bramel, Dousset, Finlayson, Hamilton
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Bramel, Dousset, Finlayson, Hamilton
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Smail, Martin
LANDFIRE fuel data were originally developed from coarse-scale existing vegetation type, existing vegetation cover, existing vegetation height, and biophysical setting layers. Fire and fuel specialists from across the country provided input to the original LANDFIRE National (…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Lutes, Reinhardt, Gangi
First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Land managers needed a tool to accurately and efficiently estimated the biomass of hand-piled fuels as pile burning becomes a more widespread and common method for treating high fire hazard areas with heavy surface fuels. Past pile characterization research dealt only with large…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
A mobile application for prescribed fire smoke management with features including guidelines, a fuel calculator, fact sheets, Smokepedia glossary, and other helpful resources. Developed by North Carolina State University for the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils and the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
French, McKenzie
The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) is a web-based tool that provides users a simple user interface for computing wildland fire emissions across North America at landscape to regional scales (1-km spatial resolution). WFEIS provides access to fire perimeter…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Canopy fuel stratum characteristics determine to a large extent the behavior of crown fires. By linking an extensive forest stand database with foliage dry weight allometric equations, we developed regression equations to estimate the following canopy fuel stratum…
Year: 2013
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Mell
The Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS) is an extension of NIST's structural Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to fuels that include vegetation. WFDS uses computational fluid dynamics methods to solve the governing equations for buoyant flow, heat transfer,…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Linn, Sieg
HIGRAD/FIRETEC is a physics-based, 3-D computer code designed to simulate the constantly changing, interactive relationship between fire and its environment. It does so by representing the coupled interaction between fire, fuels, atmosphere, and topography on a landscape scale (…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Canopy fuel stratum characteristics determine to a large extent the behavior of crown fires. By linking an extensive forest stand database with foliage dry weight allometric equations, we developed regression equations to estimate the following canopy fuel stratum…
Year: 2010
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES