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Fire products are now available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) including the only current global daily active fire product. This paper describes the algorithm, the products and the associated validation activities. High-resolution ASTER data,…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, active fires, Africa
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, Amazon, biomass, distribution, fire case histories, Indonesia, radiation, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, tropical regions, wildfires, Indonesian forest fire, unsupervised classification, multi spectrum classification, aerosol optical thickness
The accuracy with which park managers can predict the behavior, spread, and effects of individual fires will be increasingly critical to decisions on when and where to burn. Models to predict fuel accumulation and consumption, fire spread, smoke production, and the effects of…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, coniferous forests, dendrochronology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, lightning caused fires, national parks, Nevada, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, reproduction, Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sierra Nevada, succession
Experimental studies and mesoscale modeling of atmospheric chemistry require a good knowledge of the sources of the atmospheric constituent, at a temporal scale of about one hour and at a spatial scale corresponding to the model grid. A combined remote sensing/modeling approach…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biomass, chemical elements, chemistry, distribution, fire frequency, fuel appraisal, gases, climate change, ignition, land management, rate of spread, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, shrublands, statistical analysis
This paper describes the Oklahoma Fire Danger Model, an operational fire danger rating system for the state of Oklahoma (USA) developed through joint efforts of Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the Fire Sciences Laboratory of the USDA Forest Service in…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: adaptation, fire danger rating, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, land management, live fuels, moisture, Montana, Oklahoma, pine hardwood forests, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Land managers in Florida rely on prescribed fire to prepare sites for regeneration, improve wildlife habitats, reduce vegetative competition, facilitate timber management activities, and mitigate wildfire risk. More than one million acres of land is scheduled for prescribed fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: competition, disturbance, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, Florida, forest fragmentation, forest management, forest types, fragmentation, GIS, grasslands, hardwood forests, ignition, incendiary fires, land management, light, lightning caused fires, logging, Nyssa aquatica, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, population density, population ecology, prescribed fires (chance ignition), private lands, public information, regeneration, roads, rural communities, site treatments, stand characteristics, Taxodium distichum, trees, wetlands, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, coniferous forests, dead fuels, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire frequency, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, GIS, health factors, histories, Idaho, land management, land use, Larix lyallii, logging, Montana, natural resource legislation, Nevada, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, public information, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, succession, Utah, Washington, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the Introduction ... "A 1985 survey by the Soil Conservation Service indicated that eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) and ashe juniper (I. ashei) had invaded almost 1.5 million acres in Oklahoma by 1950 and 3.5 million acres by 1985 (Snook 1985). The invasion of…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, Southwest
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, bottomland hardwoods, catastrophic fires, conservation, croplands, decomposition, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forage, fuel accumulation, grasslands, grazing, Great Plains, habitat conversion, hardwood forests, herbicides, introduced species, invasive species, Juniperus, Juniperus ashei, Juniperus monosperma, Juniperus pinchotii, Juniperus scopulorum, Juniperus virginiana, land use, livestock, native species (plants), Oklahoma, orchids, plant communities, population ecology, Populus deltoides, Quercus marilandica, Quercus stellata, range management, rangelands, riparian habitats, rivers, site treatments, soil conservation, species diversity (plants), tallgrass prairies, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, urban habitats, Vireo atricapillus, Virginiana, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Landuse change from forest to urban/suburban at the wildland-urban interface between 1992 and 1997 was assessed relative to increasing fire risk for the eastern U.S. We modeled forest-to-urban expansion using two regional-scale databases. A scaled metric of forest fragmentation…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: cover, cover type conversion, evolution, fire danger rating, fire management, forest fragmentation, fragmentation, fuel loading, GIS, habitat conversion, hardwood forests, land use, pine forests, roads, rural communities, smoke management, statistical analysis, urban habitats, wilderness fire management
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: Abies spp., Acer saccharinum, agriculture, air quality, Artemisia, Betula alleghaniensis, boreal forests, Canada, Carpinus, Carya, Castanea dentata, charcoal, Corylus, crown fires, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, Fagus grandifolia, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire scar analysis, fossils, Fraxinus, Fraxinus americana, ignition, lakes, leaves, Minnesota, moisture, New York, Ontario, Ostrya, paleobotany, paleoecology, particulates, Picea, pine hardwood forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, Plantago, pollen, Populus, Quercus, Quercus alba, Quercus rubra, Quercus velutina, Rumex, sedimentation, senescence, site treatments, statistical analysis, Tilia americana, Tsuga, Tsuga canadensis, Ulmus, xeric soils, charcoal analysis, climate change, eastern deciduous forest, forest dynamics, pollen analysis, western New York state, VARVE THICKNESS, MIXED HARDWOODS, ARBOREAL POLLEN
The mesoscale meteorological model MEMO was applied to a real fire situation, which occurred in the central area of Portugal, with a very complex topography. In order to numerically provide boundary values at a higher temporal and spatial resolution, a one-way nesting technique…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: forest fire, Portugal, wind simulations, mesoscale model, complex terrain, air quality, air temperature, biogeography, climatology, Foehn winds, forest management, gases, humidity, Mediterranean habitats, nesting, rate of spread, sampling, statistical analysis, topography, wildfires, wind
Biomass burning is a common force in much of the developing tropical world and has wide-ranging environmental impacts. Fire is an important component in tropical deforestation and is often used to clear broad expanses of land for shifting agriculture, dispose of crop residue,…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, Brazil, airborne infrared imagery
This conference provided a forum in which resource specialists, managers, researchers, and other interested people could share their collective experiences, opinions, and informational needs on 1) the effects of fire on the resources, and 2) fire management in the Madrean…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southwest, International
Keywords: fire management, Madrean Province, research needs, air quality, community ecology, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire intensity, fire management planning, flame length, fire regimes, forest management, GIS - geographic information system, grazing, livestock, Madrean habitats, post-fire recovery, Mexico, rate of spread, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
The Rocky Mountain Research Station is one of six regional units that make up the USDA Forest Service Research and Development organization-the most extensive natural resources research organization in the world. We maintain 12 field laboratories throughout a 14-state territory…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: research, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Recent predictions that tropospheric aerosols have counterbalanced greenhouse warming assume aerosol emissions were low before ad1850 and then increased dramatically with industrialization of the Northern Hemisphere and biomass burning in the Tropics. We assembled the lake…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, charcoal, land use, aerosols, climate change, Northeast, biomass burning, deciduous forest, lake sediment, Midwest United States, Central Plains, air temperature, biomass, climatology, fire case histories, gases, lakes, land management, land use, sedimentation, Quebec, smoke effects, statistical analysis, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, wildfires
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: database, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fire weather data, mixing height, ventilation index, wind speed
Direct measurements of CO2 and water vapour of regenerating forests after fire events (secondary succession stages) are needed to determine the role of such disturbances in the biome carbon and water cycles functioning. An estimation of the extension of burnt areas is also…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Abies spp., regeneration, water, boreal ecosystem, carbon exchange, nutrient uptake, Siberia, Betula, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, forest management, heat, Picea, Pinus, Populus, remote sensing, Sorbus spp., Russia, succession, taiga, wildfires
Fuel reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management sufficiently to provide effective responses to the questions, objections, and concerns of wildland-urban interface (WUI) homeowners. This study's…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: public opinion, aesthetics, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire hazard, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire management planning, fire protection, fire suppression, firebreak, flammability, Florida, forest management, fuel management, geography, GIS - geographic information system, health factors, human caused fires, hunting, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Lake States, land management, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, logging, Michigan, mowing, national forests, natural resource legislation, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, private lands, public information, recreation, regulations, sampling, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, site treatments, smoke effects, state forests, statistical analysis, trees, understory vegetation, wildlife habitat management, wildfires
From the Conclusion (p.294-295) ... 'The average rate and intensity of forest burning and deforestation can be expected to increase as previously burned forest area expands. A positive feedback exists between forest fires, future fire susceptibility, fuel loading, and fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Amazon, biomass, Brazil, C - carbon, crown scorch, deforestation, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, flame length, fuel loading, land use, landscape ecology, litter, logging, mortality, overstory, rate of spread, remote sensing, scrub, South America, tropical forests
Tropical peatlands are one of the largest near-surface reserves of terrestrial organic carbon, and hence their stability has important implications for climate change. In their natural state, lowland tropical peatlands support a luxuriant growth or peat swamp forest overlying…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, Borneo, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, clearcutting, combustion, distribution, drainage, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire injuries (plants), GIS - geographic information system, GPS - global positioning system, grasslands, Indonesia, Kalimantan, land use, landscape ecology, logging, mosaic, peat, peatlands, post fire recovery, remote sensing, shrublands, Southeast Asia, swamps, tropical forests, wildfires
Shallow soil cores from 56 localities along the crest of the Colorado Front Range were processed by water flotation and wet sieving, then examined for wood charcoal and charred conifer-needle fragments. Charred particles were largest and most numerous in samples from the…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies spp., age classes, archaeological sites, C - carbon, char, charcoal, Colorado, conifers, crown fires, ecotones, elevation, forest management, litter, montane forests, mosaic, needles, overstory, particulates, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus flexilis, Populus tremuloides, remote sensing, sampling, soils, subalpine forests, surface fires, tundra, vegetation surveys, water, wildfires, wind, wood
The majority of burning in the boreal forest zone consists of stand replacement fires larger than 10 km2 occurring in remote, sparsely populated regions. Satellite remote sensing using coarse resolution (~1 km) sensors is thus well suited in documenting the spatial and temporal…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire, regeneration, remote sensing, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, burned area, fire mapping, spatial distribution, SPOT-VEGETATION
The Russian boreal forest contains approximately 25% of the global terrestrial biomass, and even a higher percentage of the carbon stored in litter and soils. Fire burns large areas annually, much of it in low-severity surface fires - but data on fire area and impacts or extent…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, boreal forest, biomass, fire regimes, fire severity, area burned, carbon emissions, carbon storage, climate change, Siberia, broadcast burning, Canada, C - carbon, chemistry, cover, crown fires, dead fuels, disturbance, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, forest management, land use, litter, remote sensing, Russia, soils, surface fires, vegetation surveys, wildfires
The NOAA 12 advanced very high resolution radiometer detected extensive forest fires in boreal Siberia and northern Mongolia during April through October 1998, a year of extremely dry weather, in particular, in the Russian Far East. Analysis of the satellite data has been…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, C - carbon, fire, biomass consumption, carbon release, radiometer, Siberia