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Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, biomass, Canada, charcoal, computer programs, dendrochronology, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire scar analysis, fire size, climate change, heat, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, mosaic, remote sensing, sedimentation, vegetation surveys, wildfires

Wildland fire has been an integral part of the conterminous United States' ecological landscape for millennia. Today wildland fire has to compete with other socially desirable goals for a share of a limited air resource. New ozone, particulate, and visibility protection air-…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, cover type conversion, fire management, fire regimes, habitat conversion, health factors, land use, landscape ecology, natural resource legislation, ozone, remote sensing, threatened and endangered species (plants), wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife

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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Amazon, bibliographies, Brazil, catastrophic fires, cover type conversion, deforestation, distribution, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO, environmental impact analysis, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, forest edges, forest fragmentation, fuel appraisal, health factors, human caused fires, hydrology, land use, landscape ecology, post fire recovery, precipitation, rainforests, remote sensing, slash, South America, tropical forests, wildfires

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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, biomass, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, forest fragmentation, grasses, mosaic, particulates, photography, precipitation, remote sensing, savannas, seasonal activities, Tanzania, weather observations, Zambia

From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, amphibians, arthropods, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, grasslands, hydrology, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, Lepidoptera, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, public information, range management, recreation, remote sensing, reptiles, runoff, small mammals, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (plants), streams, succession, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, water, water quality, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

In 1983 the most severe fire in Victorian mountain forests for over forty years killed extensive areas of highly productive eucalypt forest, requiring a large scale timber salvage and forest rehabilitation program. The scheduling of these programs was dependent upon a rapid and…
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, arthropods, artificial regeneration, ash, Australia, backfires, catastrophic fires, crown fires, crown scorch, decay, droughts, Eucalyptus regnans, fine fuels, fire control, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, fungi, ground fires, hardwood forests, insects, litter, logging, mortality, mosaic, overstory, photography, post fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, remote sensing, salvage, spot fires, understory vegetation, Victoria, wildfires, wind

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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, Australia, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, digital data collection, distribution, droughts, energy, eucalyptus, fire control, fire frequency, fire scar analysis, fuel types, Georgia, grasslands, greenhouse gases, land management, mosaic, Northern Territory of Australia, nutrients, particulates, plant growth, precipitation, radiation, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, statistical analysis, understory vegetation, biomass burning, NOAA-AVHRR (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer), fire mosaic, fire scar, Northern Territory of Australia, gaseous emissions, anthropogenic effects

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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: bacteria, bark, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, deciduous forests, fire growth, fire retardants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel arrangement, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fungi, Georgia, heat, ignition, leaves, litter, logging, microorganisms, moisture, national forests, needles, Oregon, organic matter, private lands, public information, remote sensing, slash, soil moisture, soil organic matter, spontaneous combustion, temperature, wood, woody fuels, spontaneous ignition, forest residue, wood chips, slash, CHIP PILE, SAWDUST

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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Fire Ecology, Weather, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, deciduous forests, digital data collection, fire danger rating, fire management, Formicidae, fuel moisture, Georgia, grazing, land management, leaves, livestock, moisture, Oklahoma, Praomys natalensis, precipitation, private lands, radiation, rangelands, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soil temperature, statistical analysis, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife habitat management, wind, weather station, fire danger, computer communications, NFDRS - National Fire Danger Rating System, OLETS - Oklahoma Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, high plains

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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Asia, croplands, cutting, deforestation, ENSO, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, forest products, GIS, grasslands, human caused fires, incendiary fires, Indonesia, land use, land use planning, landscape ecology, logging, mineral soils, mosaic, plantations, remote sensing, roads, shrublands, site treatments, slash, Sumatra, tropical forests, wildfires, LAND PREPARATION, TRANSMIGRATION SETTLEMENTS

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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biomass, cover, fire danger rating, fire management, fragmentation, human caused fires, ignition, land use planning, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires

The high variablility of burning conditions and fuels, found in Alaskan forest fires, produces an associated complex emission of particulate matter. Histological evidence of some large particles has been found in the forest fire plumes as well as aerosols resulting apparently…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, distribution, energy, environmental impact analysis, heat, Interior Alaska, particulates, radiation, remote sensing, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, wind

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Person:
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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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Australia, bibliographies, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, deforestation, distribution, Europe, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, climate change, habitat types, land use, remote sensing, savannas, slash and burn, statistical analysis, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires

Fire and Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) have coexisted for millennia in the central hardwoods region, yet past declines in populations of this endangered species, and the imperative of fire use in oak silviculture and ecosystem conservation, call for an analysis of both the risks…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: habitat disturbance, smoke exposure, Kentucky, Daniel Boone National Forest, Myotis sodalis, Indiana bat, bark, conservation, diameter classes, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (animals), fire management, forage, forest management, habits and behavior, hardwood forest, ignition, mortality, national forests, nesting, oak, Quercus, remote sensing, reproduction, size classes, small mammals, smoke effects, smoke management, threatened and endangered species, wildlife habitat management

This paper presents results of the AQL2004 project, which has been developed within the GOFC-GOLD Latin American network of remote sensing and forest fires (RedLatif). The project intended to obtain monthly burned-land maps of the entire region, from Mexico to Patagonia, using…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire scars, NBR - Normalized Burn Ratio, remote sensing, burned area, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, biomass burning, South America, burn area index, Latin America, air quality, Argentina, biomass, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, cover, croplands, Cuba, deforestation, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, forest management, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, Mexico, Patagonia, savannas, statistical analysis, Venezuela, wildfires

This document provides a list of publications produced by the Pacific Southwest Research Station from July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010. It includes series publications, science perspectives, and journal articles and other publications. The topics covered include all aspects of…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Social Science, Aquatic
Region(s): California, Hawaii
Keywords: US Forest Service, publications, research publications

Fire modeling and information system technology play an important supporting role in fuel and fire management. Modeling is used to examine alternative fuel treatment options, project potential ecosystem changes, and assess risk to life and property. Models are also used to…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel models, wildland fire, fire spread, fuel management, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, computer program, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire injuries (plants), evolution, fire management, flame length, fuel loading, fuel types, GIS - geographic information system, mineral soil, ignition, rate of spread, remote sensing, mortality, surface fires, season of fire, thinning, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, fire policy, research needs, fuel management, air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire models, fire regimes, fire suppression, fire weather, fuel loading, GIS - geographic information system, fuel moisture, remote sensing, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wildfires

An Autonomous Fire Detector (AFD) is a miniature electronic package combining position location capability [using the Global Positioning System (GPS)], communications (packet or voice-synthesized radio), and fire detection capability (thermal, gas, smoke detector) into an…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: remote sensing, fire detection, fire monitoring, field systems, local fire detection, AFD - Autonomous Fire Detector , CO - carbon monoxide, computer program, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, fire weather, firefighting personnel, GPS - global positioning system, wildfires, wind

The feasibility and fundamentals of forest fire detection by smoke sensing with single-wavelength lidar are discussed with reference to results of 532-nm lidar measurements of smoke plumes from experimental forest fires in Portugal within the scope of the Gestosa 2001 project.…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, Portugal, Gestosa, fire management, fire suppression, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires

Considerable research has been undertaken over the past two decades to apply remote sensing to the study of fire regimes across the savannas of northern Australia. This work has focused on two spatial scales of imagery resolution: coarse-resolution NOAA-AVHRR imagery for savanna…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, remote sensing, Landsat, NOAA-AVHRR, Australia, aborigines, air quality, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, mosaic, Northern Territory of Australia, precipitation, prehistoric fires, Queensland, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis, wildfires

The problem of eye safety in lidar-assisted wildland fire detection and investigation is considered as a problem of reduction of the hazard range within which the laser beam is dangerous for direct eye exposure. The dependence of this hazard range on the lidar characteristics is…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, Portugal, Gestosa, Europe, field experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness fire management, wildfires

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: diurnal cycle, land cover, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, time series, satellite remote sensing, annual cycle, global fire activity, North America, South America, Africa, agriculture, Asia, Australia, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, evergreens, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, gases, climate change, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, natural areas management, population density, remote sensing, season of fire, savannas, shrublands, temperature, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, wetlands, wildfires

Australia is among the most fire-prone of continents. While national fire management policy is focused on irregular and comparatively smaller fires in densely settled southern Australia, this comprehensive assessment of continental-scale fire patterning (1997-2005) derived from…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, fire mapping, greenhouse gas emissions, satellite imagery, Australia, biomass burning, savanna burning, aborigines, air quality, biomass, broadcast burning, distribution, elevation, fire size, fire management, fire frequency, forest management, fuel types, climate change, grasslands, human caused fires, ignition, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, precipitation, savannas, shrublands, vegetation surveys