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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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FireDirect is mapping software that provides GIS capabilities for agencies fighting fires in the Wildland/Urban Interface. The software allows the users to collect structure and water source information on palm computers, view structure information and photos, create and run…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

When fighting a wildfire, it is always important to make decisions based on current and expected fire behavior. That small fire could suddenly blow up (it is a fact that small fires cause more injuries than large fires). If you have a large fire on your hands, you want to know…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Built-in support for data collection from FTS weather stations, Campbell Scientific, and all stations transmitting with GOES. Manual weather data input and powerful automated import tools for other computer-based data sources.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Butler, Jimenez
FireStem is a computer model designed to aid fire managers in predicting tree mortality based on fire behavior and intensity. The eventual goal is to produce mortality predictions based on fuel information, moisture, and fire behavior for a specified region and a range of tree…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

The Fire Statistics System (FIRESTAT) is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (FS) application used to electronically enter, update, and delete required information on the Individual Fire Report (form FS-5100-29) as required by FSH 5109.14, the Individual Fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

The purpose of the Fire Program Analysis (FPA) System is to provide managers with a common interagency process for fire management planning and budgeting to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative fire management strategies through time, to meet land management goals and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Grissino-Mayer
FHX2 is software that helps analyze fire history using fire scars and other fire-related injuries found in the annual growth rings of trees. FHX2 provides a means for entering, archiving, storing, editing, and manipulation of fire history information from tree rings, which in…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

The Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) is a disturbance effects model designed to simulate the tradeoffs between alternative land management practices over long periods of time (up to 300 years) and under diverse environmental conditions, natural fire regimes, and fuel and fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Lutes, Keane
Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory Database and Data Analysis Software is software that standardizes and simplifies fire effects monitoring and analysis.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

FEAT is a comprehensive, relational database management system that was developed to support immediate and long-term monitoring and reporting of fire effects in the National Park Service units. The system will make monitoring data readily available at the Park level, with the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Schlobohm
The Fire Danger PocketCard is a method of communicating information on fire danger to firefighters. The objective is to lead to greater awareness of fire danger and subsequently increased firefighter safety. The PocketCard provides a description of seasonal changes in fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Firebudget 2 is a budget analysis tool to assist planners in determining Fire and Aviation Management budgets. Using various funding levels, FireBudget 2 determines allocation at the Most Efficient Level (MEL) as calculated in the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS).
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

A comprehensive property management system designed to meet all audit requirements imposed upon the states by law and regulation, and to provide a tool for the States to improve and assist in the effective management of FEPP. Federal Excess Personal Property (FEPP) is a program…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

The WebFIRE application web site provides fast and complete access to the Agency's air emissions factors information. WebFIRE has replaced the software application, FIRE version 6.25 and the MS Access version of the database. The Factor Information REtrieval (FIRE) Data System…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

ADaM is a tool for flight planners to determine the optimum aircraft-flight combination to fill a request(s) for aircraft services. Included with ADaM is the Sunrise-Sunset time tables for calculating daylight hours for flight time and CAN (Computer Aided Navigation). ADaM, CAN…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

In 1998, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) agreed that agencies administrative mail systems did not support the needs of the emergency dispatch community. Based on this, the NWCG tasked the Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS) project team with developing and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

A computer program for calculating fuel loading using the planer intercept of photo series methods. Part of the Fuels Management Analyst software package.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Software for predicting fire danger and fire spread based on algorithms published by Noble, Bary and Gill (1980) for the Forest Fire Danger Meter and the algorithms published by Cheney, Gould and Catchpole (1998) for grasslands.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

CrownMass is a comprehensive fuels management tool that can: 1) Determine fuel loading for debris from crowns,boles, and tops. 2) Determine crown mass and the stand's susceptibility to crown fires. 3) Predict fire behavior in resultant fuelbed include crown fire potential. 4)…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Wordell, Carlton
Cheetah 3 (Computerized Harmonic Evaluation of Episodes and Tools for Assessment of Help) was developed to support examination of fire occurrence patterns and fire suppression resource requirements at the National and Geographic Area level. Questions are frequently asked on the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

CALPUFF is an advanced non-steady-state meteorological and air quality modeling system developed and distributed by Earth Tech, Inc. The model has been adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in its Guideline on Air Quality Models as the preferred model…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Thorton
Biome-BGC is a computer program that estimates fluxes and storage of energy, water, carbon, and nitrogen for the vegetation and soil components of terrestrial ecosystems. We call it a process model because its algorithms represent physical and biological processes that control…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

AMIS is used to collect, store, and analyze information about aircraft usage within Forest Service controls. AMIS is a Web-based application for entering and storing information from the FS-6500-122, Flight Use Report. Aircraft use information is required to be reported by each…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Allows automated data entry into Incident Command System Form ICS-209, Incident Status Summary. Transmits summaries from reporting units to regional and national databases. Improves timely and complete reporting for use in strategic decision making. Generates automated ICS-209…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

The AFS Fire Weather Database provides access to fire weather information from a variety of sources such as RAWS (Remote Automated Weather Stations) and manually observed weather data. Output formats include display of hourly weather station sensor data, recent sensor data for a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES