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This report discusses the potential usefulness of thermal infrared sensors onboard NOAA polar-orbiting satelites for detecting fires. In particular, the 3.8-micron channel is sensitive to high temperature sources such as fires. This paper will demonstrate how the 3.8-micron…
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, Arizona, coastal forests, coastal plain, computer programs, experimental fires, fire danger rating, fire management, fire size, hardwood forests, heat, Idaho, lightning, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Piedmont, pine forests, remote sensing, season of fire, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, Texas, tundra, Utah, Washington
Fire-maintained pine barrens once covered more than 20,000 hectares in the Albany region on sand deposits associated with glacial Lake Albany. Today, urbanization and fire suppression have reduced the area to less than 1,000 hectares of pine barrens, which are dissected by…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Social Science, Fire Ecology, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: adaptation, barrens, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest fragmentation, fuel loading, histories, ignition, lightning, New York, pine barrens, pioneer species, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: forest management, smoke management
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, Borneo, catastrophic fires, clearcutting, droughts, ENSO, fire case histories, fire injuries (plants), Idaho, ignition, Indonesia, litter, logging, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, mortality, Oregon, partial cutting, rainforests, rate of spread, remote sensing, slash, slash and burn, smoke effects, topography, tropical forests, Washington, wildlife food plants
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: crowns, dead fuels, education, fire suppression, forest management, fuel management, general interest, Georgia, land management, litter, overstory, public information, smoke management, surface fires, understory vegetation