The NCLFA's publications list encompasses traditional academic publications, tools and resources we've developed, and reports and other documents we've produced. Publications about a specific project may be found on that project's page in the What We Do, Projects & Activities area.
2007 Yearly Report [ 6.22 MB ]
A summary of the NCLFA's accomplishments in 2007
Communication Barriers to Applying Federal Research in Support of Land Management in the United States [ 73.09 KB ]
An overview of the barriers to effective communication of scientific research to land managers.
Deploying a Remote Data and Communications Network in Denali National Park [ 1.3 MB ]
An overview of this demonstration project utilizing high bandwidth data radios to support fire management and park operations.
Estimating near-surface air temperature with NOAA AVHRR [ 484.52 KB ]
Provides a useful technique for relatively simple derivation of near-surface air temperatures in a variety of remote sensing applications
FireWxNet: A MultiTiered Portable Wireless System for Monitoring Weather Conditions in Wildland Fire Environments [ 998.87 KB ]
An article about the NCLFA's wireless weather sensor network project from MobiSys'06, June 19-22, 2006, Uppsala, Sweden.
Geodatabase Use in Fire Sciences Research: The Development Lifecycle [ 4.08 MB ]
A comprehensive exploration of the development of the Rapid Response Geodatabase, from the thesis of Lee Macholz, NCLFA GIS Program Manager
GIS and Wildland Fire Case Study [ 4.33 MB ]
A case study of the NCLFA's Base Map project, published in the Montana Geospatial Strategic Plan: 2006-2010. Page 8 of document [pg. 13 of .pdf]. Created with funding from the Federal Geographic Data Committee to the Montana Department of Administration, on behalf of the Montana Land Information Advisory Council
GNIS in Montana [ 1.18 MB ]
The final report from the NCLFA to the USGS on a data model for incorporating GNIS data into Montana framework datasets.
Integrating Data from NASA Missions into NOAA's Pacific Region Integrated Climatology Information Products (PRICIP) Project [ 3.73 MB ]
NCLFA Remote Sensing Image Analyst Casey Teske worked on a project at NASA in summer 2007 to integrate weather data acquired by NASA missions into tropical storm event geovisualizations.
Investigation of Geospatial Support of Incident Management [ 1.94 MB ]
A report on the effectiveness of geospatial technology in supporting fire management; based on field research with seven Type I Teams, two Type II Teams, and three Area Commands.
Modeling forest fire effects on watershed hydrology using DHSVM [ 3.12 MB ]
A poster summarizing research on the Distributed Hydrology-Soil-Vegetation Model (DHSVM), a GIS-based, spatially explicit hydrologic model. Currently, there are few known applications of DHSVM focused on quantifying the impacts of forest fire on the hydrology of a watershed. Here, DHSVM was used to assess the cumulative effects of a high intensity forest fire on the hydrology of a mountainous, forested, snow-dominated basin in western Montana.
Montana/Idaho Airshed Management System Brochure [ 528.56 KB ]
A brief overview of this application, developed by the NCLFA, for the Montana/Idaho Airshed Group
Quest for Fire [ 15.93 MB ]
An overview of the Fire Intelligence Module, from Vision magazine, a publication of the University of Montana University Relations department
Rapid Response Geodatabase poster [ 2.55 MB ]
A poster describing the NCLFA's Rapid Response Geodatabase project
Relay Race [ 821.49 KB ]
An overview of the remote communications and surveillance networks installed by the Fire Intelligence Module. Published in Wildfire Magazine, March/April 2006.
Using Laser Altimetry-based Segmentation to Refine Automated Tree Identification in Managed Forests of the Black Hills,South Dakota [ 1.53 MB ]
An overview of the NCLFA's laser altimetry research to refine automated tree identification from Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing Vol. 72, No. 12, December 2006, pp. 1379-1388.
