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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfire, wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy)
Accurate representation of fire emissions and smoke transport is crucial for current and future wildfire-smoke projections. We present a flexible modeling framework for emissions sourced from the First Street Foundation Wildfire Model (FSF-WFM) to provide a national map for near…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke transport, dispersion, air quality, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5
Prescribed burning is a major source of a fine particular matter, especially in the southeastern United States, and quantifying emissions from burning operations accurately is an integral part of ascertaining air quality impacts. For instance, a critical factor in calculating…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biomass burning, wildland fire, Blue Sky, FINN - Fire Inventory of NCAR, agricultural burning, air quality, wildfires
Wildland fire can cause significant damage but is also a natural process that is key to the healthy functioning of many ecosystems worldwide. Primary fuels for a wildland fire are the dead foliage and small branches which accumulate as litter on the ground. A cone calorimeter…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, molecular chemical mapping, live fuel properties, wildfire, GCxGC
Large land extensions are subjected to environmental degradation and land-use changes by fires annually. In tropical regions, such as South America, the global demand for commodities leads to the conversion of natural vegetation into agricultural land-uses. With the new orbital…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: South America, biomass burning, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, satellite imagery, remote sensing, GOES-R, METEOSAT, BRAMS - Brazilian Regional Atmospheric Modeling System, MERRA-2 - Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, CAMS - Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, Brazil
Fire is one of the major disasters in the world, which seriously endangers the safety of life and property. Effective flame and smoke detection can provide timely warning information for firefighters. Existing flame and smoke detection algorithms are limited by processor…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire detection, flame detection, YOLOv4, MobileNetv3, depthwise separable convolution, DSAM - depth separable attention module, BiFPN - bidirectional feature pyramid network, Light-YOLOv4
The University of Colorado Airborne Solar Occultation Flux (CU AirSOF) instrument conducted the first suborbital carbon monoxide (CO) mass flux measurements on the scale of large wildfires, showing that the destructive fires in northern California in October 2017 emitted 2040 ±…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: CO - carbon monoxide, remote sensing, large wildfires, air quality, satellite data, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, CU AirSOF - University of Colorado Airborne Solar Occultation Flux
Fire activity and severity is increasing in the high northern latitudes, including burning landscapes long thought to be "fire resistant." Across the Pan-Arctic, smoke impacts from lengthening fire seasons in the boreal and the Arctic mean new public health challenges, as well…
Person: McCarty
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Arctic region, climate change, black carbon, Russia, Canada, air quality, Siberia, agricultural fires, Scandinavia, burned area, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, cultural burning, Indigenous burning
From August to October 2020, a serious wildfire occurred in California, USA, which produced a large number of particulate matter and harmful gases, resulting in huge economic losses and environmental pollution. Particulate matter delays the GNSS signal, which affects the like…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite System, 2020 California wildfires, radiosonde, station network, multilayer perceptron neural networks, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, PM10, PWV - precipitable water vapor
Training a deep learning-based classification model for early wildfire smoke images requires a large amount of rich data. However, due to the episodic nature of fire events, it is difficult to obtain wildfire smoke image data, and most of the samples in public datasets suffer…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke classification, wildfire, deep learning, synthetic images, adversarial training, domain adaptation
In this study, we present a nationwide machine learning model for hourly PM2.5 estimation for the continental United States (US) using high temporal resolution Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-16) Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data, meteorological variables…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, machine learning, GOES-16, AOD - aerosol optical depth, California wildfires, ECMWF - European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting, spatial-temporal analysis
The target detection of smoke through remote sensing images obtained by means of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be effective for monitoring early forest fires. However, smoke targets in UAV images are often small and difficult to detect accurately. In this paper, we use…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, forest fire, wildfire, smoke detection, UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles, fire monitoring, component stitching data enhancement, parallel spatial domain attention mechanism, symmetry, small-scale transformer feature pyramid network, China
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
Ecosystem process models can be used to predict forest response to disturbances at a range of scales. Selection of the spatial class of model should depend on the scale of the research or management question, and model type should depend on the ecosystem attributes of interest.…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: C - carbon, carbon sequestration, Ecosystem Demography model, ecosystem modeling, Ichauway, Jones Center, LANDIS-II, longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, wildfire
We use observations of acyl peroxynitrates (PANs) from the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) to investigate PANs over the western U.S. during the summer 2018 wildfire season. This period coincides with the Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption,…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: wildfires, acyl peroxynitrates, PAN - peroxyacetyl nitrate, satellite, WE-CAN - Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption, and Nitrogen, transport, chemical production
Wildfire emissions affect downwind air quality and human health. Predictions of these impacts using models are limited by uncertainties in emissions and chemical evolution of smoke plumes. Using high-time-resolution aircraft measurements, we illustrate spatial variations that…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfire, chemistry, plume, hydroxyl radical, fire plume evolution, air quality, O3 - ozone
The multiannual variability of wildfire areas and volumes of emissions of carbon components (CO, CO2) and aerosol (PM2.5) caused by wildfires has been analyzed for the large Russian regions over a 20-year period (from 2001 to 2020) on the basis of satellite monitoring. A…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: satellite monitoring, Russia, remote sensing, wildfires, carbon components of gas, C - carbon, aerosols, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, CO - carbon monoxide, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Fire is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment, broadly defined, published quarterly online by MDPI. Fire serves as an international forum for diverse…
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
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Large wildland fires generate smoke that can compromise air quality over a wide area. Limited studies have suggested that smoke constituents may enter natural water bodies. In an 18-year water monitoring study, we examined whether smoke from distant wildland fires had a…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, water quality, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, Canada, Alberta
In recent years, the pan-Arctic region has experienced increasingly extreme fire seasons. Fires in the northern high latitudes are driven by current and future climate change, lightning, fuel conditions, and human activity. In this context, conceptualizing and parameterizing…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: climate change, Arctic, wildfires, AMAP - Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, black carbon, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, fire management
One of the main sources of greenhouse gases is forest fire, with carbon dioxide as its main constituent. With increasing global surface temperatures, the probability of forest fire events also increases. A method that enables rapid quantification of emissions is even more…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Landsat 8, Sentinel-2, forest fire, wildfire, GEE - Google Earth Engine, Indonesia, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Remote sensing (RS) images have been widely used in disaster monitoring due to their wide observation and timeliness. Wildfire is a type of destructive disaster, and smoke is an important signal of the occurrence of wildfires; therefore, it is necessary to perform smoke…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke detection, remote sensing, scene classification, feature aggregation, wildfire, Global2Salient
During the summer 2017 ASCENDS/ABoVE airborne science campaign, the NASA Goddard CO2 Sounder lidar overflew smoke plumes from wildfires in the British Columbia, Canada. In the flight path over Vancouver Island on 8 August 2017, the column XCO2 retrievals from the lidar…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: CO2 - carbon dioxide, British Columbia, Canada, 2017 fire season, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, remote sensing, wildfires, carbon fluxes
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
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In September 2020, extremely strong wildfires in the western United States of America (i.e., mainly in California) produced large amounts of smoke, which was lifted into the free troposphere. These biomass‐burning‐aerosol (BBA) layers were transported from the US west coast…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: wildfires, biomass burning, aerosol, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, remote sensing, Aeolus