AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Previous mineral-resource assessment data compilation - shapefiles

The zip file contains shapefiles showing areas of mineral potential for various commodities. The datasets were compiled from previous mineral resource potential reports which covered the SaMiRA project areas. The shapefiles were compiled from datasets which had different data structure schemes and which used two different types of assessment methodology. The BLM used qualitative categorical and others used the USGS quantitative 3-part form of assessment. The original GIS data was re-formatted so that all of the shapefiles had one of two consistent attribute table structures, one for reports that had quantitative data, and one for reports with qualitative data. A general attribute table structure was created which contained fields for information on the deposit type assessed, assessment rank, type of assessment, and tract name and identifier. For the attribute table of the quantitatively assessed reports which used the USGS 3-part form of assessment, we added additional fields for the deposit model name and number, probabilistic assessment results data, and estimators. We captured the original information as presented but also standardized nomenclature when we could and referred to the report text in some instances in order to fill in missing data into the descriptive data tables.

Tags: idaho, mineral-resource-assessment, montana, nevada, oregon, united-states, usgs-579a71c8e4b0589fa1c8719f, utah, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Table containing descriptive data for georeferenced map images

The .csv table is part of a dataset package that was compiled for use as mineral assessment guidance in the Sagebrush Mineral-Resource Assessment project (SaMiRA). Mineral potential maps from previous mineral-resource assessments which included areas of the SaMiRA project areas were georeferenced. The images were clipped to the extent of the map and all explanatory text, gathered from map explanations or report text, was recorded into this table. This table is to be used in conjunction with the individual georeferenced raster images. It includes the image file name, map title and figure caption when appropriate. The images are also classified according to the legal definition of mineral resources: metallic, non-metallic, leasable non-fuel, leasable fuel, geothermal, paleontological, and saleable.

Tags: idaho, mineral-resource-assessment, montana, nevada, oregon, united-states, usgs-579a7470e4b0589fa1c871a4, utah, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Table containing descriptions of column headings in All_georef_images_descriptive_information_table.csv table

The .csv table is part of a dataset package that was compiled for use as mineral assessment guidance in the Sagebrush Mineral-Resource Assessment project (SaMiRA). Mineral potential maps from previous mineral-resource assessments which included areas of the SaMiRA project areas were georeferenced. The images were clipped to the extent of the map and all explanatory text, gathered from map explanations or report text, was recorded into the All_georef_images_descriptive_information_table.csv table. This table lists and describes the column headings in the All_georef_images_descriptive_information_table.csv table.

Tags: idaho, mineral-resource-assessment, montana, nevada, oregon, united-states, usgs-579a74fee4b0589fa1c871a9, utah, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)  transect data averaged from surface to Lake bottom on June 25, 2015

This data release supports the following publication: Hittle, Elizabeth, 2017, Longshore Water-Current Velocity and the Potential for Transport of Contaminants: A Pilot Study in Lake Erie from Walnut Creek to Presque Isle State Park Beaches, Erie, Pennsylvania, June and August 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1206 126 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161206. 
This dataset is Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data.  The data was processed with a horizontal averaging of 10 grid nodes (Parsons, D.R., Jackson, P.R., Czuba, J.A., Oberg, K.A., Mueller, D.S., Rhoads, B., Best, J.L., Johnson, K.K., Engel, F., and Riley, J. (2013) Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367).  Data was collected on June 25, the depth range is surface to the lake bottom.

Tags: erie-county, lake-erie, pennsylvania, presque-isle-state-park, usgs-57a2012ce4b006cb45553801, water-circulation, water-depth, water-velocity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Main Terrace vertical offset data for the Lower Rhine Graben, central Europe – Data Release

This data release includes vertical offset information for the regionally extensive Main Terrace in the Lower Rhine Graben in the border region between Germany, Beligum, and Netherlands.

Tags: belgium, germany, lower-rhine, netherlands, seismic-hazard-earthquakes-slip-rate-lower-rhine-graben, usgs-580a4460e4b0f497e79064a9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)  transect data averaged from 0 to 5 meters (afternoon) on August 18, 2015

This data release supports the following publication: Hittle, Elizabeth, 2017, Longshore Water-Current Velocity and the Potential for Transport of Contaminants: A Pilot Study in Lake Erie from Walnut Creek to Presque Isle State Park Beaches, Erie, Pennsylvania, June and August 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1206 126 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161206. 
This dataset is Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data.  The data was processed with a horizontal averaging of 10 grid nodes (Parsons, D.R., Jackson, P.R., Czuba, J.A., Oberg, K.A., Mueller, D.S., Rhoads, B., Best, J.L., Johnson, K.K., Engel, F., and Riley, J. (2013) Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367).  Data was collected on August 18 in the afternoon, the depth range is 0 to 5 meters.

Tags: erie-county, lake-erie, pennsylvania, presque-isle-state-park, usgs-57a20173e4b006cb45553815, water-circulation, water-depth, water-velocity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)  transect data averaged from 0 to 5 meters (morning) on August 18, 2015

This data release supports the following publication: Hittle, Elizabeth, 2017, Longshore Water-Current Velocity and the Potential for Transport of Contaminants: A Pilot Study in Lake Erie from Walnut Creek to Presque Isle State Park Beaches, Erie, Pennsylvania, June and August 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1206 126 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161206. 
This dataset is Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data.  The data was processed with a horizontal averaging of 10 grid nodes (Parsons, D.R., Jackson, P.R., Czuba, J.A., Oberg, K.A., Mueller, D.S., Rhoads, B., Best, J.L., Johnson, K.K., Engel, F., and Riley, J. (2013) Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367).  Data was collected on August 18 in the morning, the depth range is 0 to 5 meters.

Tags: erie-county, lake-erie, pennsylvania, presque-isle-state-park, usgs-57a20192e4b006cb4555381d, water-circulation, water-depth, water-velocity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)  transect data averaged from 5 meters to Lake bottom (afternoon) on August 18, 2015

This data release supports the following publication: Hittle, Elizabeth, 2017, Longshore Water-Current Velocity and the Potential for Transport of Contaminants: A Pilot Study in Lake Erie from Walnut Creek to Presque Isle State Park Beaches, Erie, Pennsylvania, June and August 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1206 126 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161206. 
This dataset is Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT) processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data.  The data was processed with a horizontal averaging of 10 grid nodes (Parsons, D.R., Jackson, P.R., Czuba, J.A., Oberg, K.A., Mueller, D.S., Rhoads, B., Best, J.L., Johnson, K.K., Engel, F., and Riley, J. (2013) Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367).  Data was collected on August 18 in the afternoon, the depth range is 5 meters to the lake bottom.

Tags: erie-county, lake-erie, pennsylvania, presque-isle-state-park, usgs-57a201c3e4b006cb45553829, water-circulation, water-depth, water-velocity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tomography pressure time series (filtered) from August 15, 2011, to October 12, 2011, for the lower zone of Floridan aquifer system monitoring well FA-4 at the North District Wastewater Treatment Plant, Miami-Dade County, Florida

U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Miami-Dade County, performed a sequential, aquifer stress test from August 15 to October 12, 2011, on the Floridan aquifer system at the North District Wastewater Treatment Plant, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Miami-Dade County stressed the Floridan aquifer system with four municipal injection wells at the North District. The U.S. Geological Survey measured pressure with an Aqua TROLL 200 from August 15, 2011, to October 12, 2011, for the lower zone of Floridan aquifer system monitoring well FA-4. These data are part of a larger data set that describe the stress test at the North District (King, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7QZ2819).

Tags: 2011, aquifer-test, avon-park-formation, avon-park-permeable-zone, deepwell-injection, effluent-injection, eocene, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, hydrogeology, miami-dade, tomography, underground-injection-control, usgs-57a217ace4b006cb45553d45
Organization: Department of the Interior
Surface area of solar arrays in the conterminous United States

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Fort Collins Science Center created a national data set of the footprint area of solar arrays for the Bureau of Land Management’s National Operations Center. We identified potential solar facility locations for the conterminous U.S. using the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) utility-scale facilities data from 2015. The footprint area of each solar array was digitized on-screen using true color aerial imagery from the most recently available National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) for each state (NAIP 2013-2015). We used supplementary ESRI basemap imagery accessed via ArcGIS to verify locations of arrays observed in NAIP imagery. Arrays separated by more than 30 meters were delineated as separate polygons. Access roads and other adjacent infrastructure were not included in the array footprint. Attribution for each array was derived from the EIA data and augmented with the date of aerial imagery used for delineation, the area of each array, and ground surface characteristics (artificial impervious or non-impervious). As of 2015, solar arrays covered a total of 191.57 square kilometers, only 2.8 percent of which was located on impervious surfaces.  There were 176 utility-scale solar facilities (319 arrays) on impervious surfaces and 564 facilities (888 arrays) on non-impervious surfaces.

Tags: array, development-footprint, energy-development, solar, usgs-57a25271e4b006cb45553efa, utility-scale-solar-facilities
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cottonwood Lake Study Area - Water Surface Elevations

This dataset contains water surface elevations for the wetlands in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota.

Tags: chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, climatic-change, cottonwood-lake-study-area, effects-of-climate-change, floods, hydrodynamics, hydrology, inlandwaters, land-use, land-use-change, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, prairie-pothole-region, precipitation, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-579bc8ede4b0589fa1c982c8, water-resources, water-sampling, wetland-agriculture, wetland-functions, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cottonwood Lake Study Area - Specific Conductance

This dataset contains the specific conductance values for all wetlands in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota.

Tags: chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, climatic-change, cottonwood-lake-study-area, effects-of-climate-change, hydrodynamics, hydrology, inlandwaters, land-use, land-use-change, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, united-states-of-america, usgs-579bcae8e4b0589fa1c982d8, water-properties, water-resources, water-sampling, wetland-agriculture, wetland-functions, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spatial distribution of layer-averaged velocity measured in the Calumet River at Calumet Harbor, Illinois (May 12,2015)

Acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) data were collected at multiple transects in the Calumet River mouth on May 12, 2016 to determine the spatial distribution of layer-averaged velocities. The data were layer-averaged in 2-foot increments of depth from the bed to the water surface. Data were processed using the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons and other, 2013). Any data assigned a value of "­9999" are invalid or missing and should not be used for analysis.
Parsons, D. R., Jackson, P. R., Czuba, J. A., Engel, F. L., Rhoads, B. L., Oberg, K. A., Best, J. L., Mueller, D. S., Johnson, K. K. and Riley, J. D. (2013), Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 38: 1244–1260. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367

Tags: calumet-harbor, calumet-river, inlandwaters, lake-calumet, usgs-578f892de4b0ad6235cf6d70, velocity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey data for chaparral vegetation in masticated fuel treatments on the four southern California national forests (2011-2012)

Physical site characteristics including aspect, elevation, and slope were recorded for each study plot and spatial coordinates were obtained from a global positioning system.  Stand height was determined by averaging the heights of the first live woody individual encountered along each 10 m subplot in mechanically masticated plots as well as in the adjacent controls. Unfortunately height data was not collected from postfire plots in the prior study.  The age of the stand prior to each mechanical disturbance was obtained from stem samples collected from the first two obligate seeding individuals encountered within controls and ranged from seven to sixty-four years across all mechanically masticated fuel treatments.  The stand ages of postfire plots, on the other hand, were obtained from stem samples collected from nearby unburned vegetation or estimated from burned skeletons of obligate seeding species collected within the burn area.  These sites ranged in age from twenty-four to fifty-one years old at the time of the 2003 wildfires.  All data from mechanically treated study sites, including both treatment and control, were collected in the spring and summer of 2011 and 2012. The postfire data from the local case study were also collected in the spring and summer of 2011 and 2012 whereas the postfire data used in the regional comparison were collected in the spring and summer of 2005.  The age of each plot at the time of sampling was determined by subtracting the year of the disturbance from the year of data collection.

Tags: angeles-national-forest, chaparral, cleveland-national-forest, fuel-treatment-effects, invasive-species, los-padres-national-forest, mastication, san-bernardino-national-forest, southern-california, usgs-579fc1cde4b0589fa1cd568f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey data for chaparral vegetation in masticated fuel treatments on the four southern California national forests (2011-2012)

All plant species were identified down to finest taxa when possible.  Each plant code used in the survey data is paired to a plant code on this species list which provides the full scientific name of each species, the plant family the species belongs to, the native or non-native status of species, and the life history of the plant.  
Plant nomenclature follows:
Baldwin B.G., D.H. Goldman, D.J. Keil, R. Patterson, T.J. Rosatti, and D.H. Wilken, editors.   
2012.  The Jepson Manual: vascular plants of California.  Second edition.  University 
of California Press, Berkeley, USA.

Tags: angeles-national-forest, chaparral, cleveland-national-forest, fuel-treatment-effects, invasive-species, los-padres-national-forest, mastication, san-bernardino-national-forest, southern-california, usgs-579fc240e4b0589fa1cd5698
Organization: Department of the Interior
Survey data for chaparral vegetation in masticated fuel treatments on the four southern California national forests (2011-2012)

The sampling design at each of the 149 mechanically masticated fuel treatment study sites consisted of a 10 x 100 m plot established within the treated area at the random point generated in ArcGIS and an adjacent 10 x 100 m control plot placed one meter inside the edge of untreated vegetation to avoid edge affects.  Each study plot was further subdivided into 10 100-m2 subplots with a nested 1-m2 quadrat placed along the top edge of the measurement tape.  Postfire study sites consisted of a 20 x 50 m plot that was equal in area to a fuel treatment study plot and was also further subdivided into 10 100-m2 subplots with a nested 1-m2 quadrat placed along the outer top and bottom edges of the plot.
Cover and density were recorded for each species within 1-m2 quadrats and a list of additional species present within the rest of the 100-m2 subplot was compiled.  Ocular estimates of cover were made and density was either counted, or estimated when there were more than 30 individuals in a quadrat.  First year seedlings were recorded separately from mature and resprouting individuals.  Comprehensive surveys for additional species were conducted in subplots of mechanical treatments and postfire plots; whereas controls were more limited and as such total species richness in these plots was potentially underrepresented.

Tags: angeles-national-forest, chaparral, cleveland-national-forest, fuel-treatment-effects, invasive-species, los-padres-national-forest, mastication, san-bernardino-national-forest, southern-california, usgs-579fc27ee4b0589fa1cd569a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tables of file names, times, and locations of images collected during unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (text files)

These text files contain tables of the file names, times, and locations of images obtained from an unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flown in the Cape Cod National Seashore. The objective of the fieldwork was to evaluate the quality and cost of mapping from UAS images. Low-altitude (approximately 120 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from cameras in a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flown from the lawn adjacent to the Coast Guard Beach parking lot on 1 March, 2016. The UAV was a Skywalker X8 flying wing operated by Raptor Maps, Inc., contractors to the U.S. Geological Survey. U.S. Geological Survey technicians deployed and mapped 28 targets that appear in some of the images for use as ground control points. All activities were conducted according to Federal Aviation Administration regulations and under a National Park Service Scientific Research and Collecting Permit, study number CACO-00285, permit number CACO-2016-SCI-003. Two consecutive UAS missions were flown, each with two cameras, autopilot computer, radios, and a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning system as payload. The first flight (f1) was launched at approximately 1112 EST, and followed north-south flight lines, landing at about 1226 EST. Two Canon Powershot SX280 12-mexapixel digital cameras, designated rgb1 and rgb2 made images during this flight. The second flight (f2) was launched at 1320 EST and followed east-west flight lines, landing at 1450 Eastern Standard Time (EST). Prior to f2, rgb2 was replaced with a Canon SX280 modified with a Schott BG 3 filter to emphasize light at near-infrared wavelengths, designated nir1. Rgb1 and nir1 made images during this second flight. The four files are tables of images obtained from the two cameras during the two flights. These tables, which are text files of comma-separated values, contain the image file name, date and time (Universal Time; UT), longitude and latitude (WGS84 decimal degrees), easting and northing (NAD83(2011) UTM Zone 19 North meters, obtained by conversion of the latitude and longitude), and elevation (approximate meters above mean sea level) determined from the UAS GNSS system. Note that this location information was only used to determine proximity of images, and was replaced with calculated camera locations in photogrammetric processing.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, cape-cod-national-seashore, cmgp, coast-guard-beach, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, drone, eastham, field-activity-number-2016-007-fa, geospatial-datasets, image-collections, location, massachusetts, nauset-inlet, nauset-marsh, navigation, navigational-data, oceans, orleans, remote-sensing, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usgs, usgs-57a0b15fe4b060ce18fbf317, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ground control point locations associated with images collected during unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (Text file and photos)

This dataset documents the locations of ground control points associated with images obtained from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flown in the Cape Cod National Seashore. Most of the ground control points were temporary targets placed by the U.S. Geological Survey field crew, but four were man-made features already in place, and two were points selected a posteriori from preliminary orthophotomosaics. Photographs of the four in-place features are included in this dataset, as are images showing the location of the two a posteriori points at two zoom levels. The locations of these ground control points can be used to constrain photogrammetric reconstructions based on the aerial imagery. The overall objective of the fieldwork was to evaluate the quality and cost of mapping from UAS images. Low-altitude (approximately 120 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from cameras in a fixed-wing UAS flown from the lawn adjacent to the Coast Guard Beach parking lot on 1 March, 2016. All activities were conducted according to Federal Aviation Administration regulations and under a National Park Service Scientific Research and Collecting Permit, study number CACO-00285, permit number CACO-2016-SCI-003.

Tags: aerial-images, atlantic-ocean, cape-cod, cape-cod-national-seashore, cmgp, coast-guard-beach, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, drone, eastham, field-activity-number-2016-007-fa, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, ground-control-point, massachusetts, nauset-inlet, nauset-marsh, navigational-data, oceans, orleans, remote-sensing, targets, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usgs, usgs-57a0b1a6e4b060ce18fbf331, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior