AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Georeferenced TIFF image displaying 2 meter resolution backscatter data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in a subset of the Steamboat Lumps marine Protected Area, Gulf of Mexico in 2000 (UTM Zone 16N, WGS 84, GeoTIFF image)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mapped approximately 22 square miles of the Madison Swanson Marine Protected Area (MPA) and Steamboat Lumps MPA, which are located on the Florida shelf edge in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico in 2000 using sidescan sonar and high-resolution chirp seismic-reflection systems. This survey was conducted as part of a larger study of the effectiveness of no-fishing reserves in protecting grouper spawning aggregations. Field activity information for this cruise is available on-line through the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fa=2000-005-FA.

Tags: backscatter, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, field-activity-number-2000-005-fa, florida, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gulf-of-mexico, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, north-america, oceans, r-v-oregon-ii, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sidescan-sonar, sis-1000, steamboat-lumps-marine-protected-area, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-cf884358-de16-4cfb-81cc-a634afecbbde, west-florida-shelf, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pecos River Basin alluvial aquifer

This data set represents the extent of the Pecos River Basin alluvial aquifer in 
New Mexico, and Texas.

Tags: aquifer, aquifer-extent, environment, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, inlandwaters, new-mexico, texas, usgs-cf847043-d6cf-430a-b493-ffbea5ec41b4
Organization: Department of the Interior
Unprocessed aerial imagery from 20 January 2020 coastal survey of Central California.

This is a set of 3072 oblique aerial photogrammetric images and their derivatives, collected from San Francisco to Monterey with a fixed-lens digital camera from a crewed light aircraft, for processing using structure-from-motion photogrammetry and machine learning to study coastal geomorphic processes at high temporal and spatial resolution. JPG files in each folder follow the following naming convention: {CAM###}_{YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_ss}.jpg, where {CAM###} is the last 3 digits of the camera serial number, preceded by the letters "cam", and where {YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_ss} is the image acquisition time in {YearMonthDayHourMinuteSecond_hundredths} expressed in 24-hour time, as recorded by the camera's internal clock and written to the SubSecondDateTime field in the image EXIF data (for example CAM001_202009182311_50 would be the timestamp for an image with a SubSecondDateTime EXIF time/date stamp of September 18th, 2020 at 11:11.50 pm.

Tags: aerial-and-satellite-photography, aerial-photography, agents-of-coastal-change, anthropogenic-agents-of-coastal-change, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-development, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-erosion, coastal-landslides, coastal-processes, datasets, distributions, earth-sciences, ecology, environment, geography, geologic-processes, geology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, habitat, image-analysis, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, infrastructure, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, remote-sensing, slope-processes, structures, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, united-states-and-territories, usgs, usgs-cf71a7eb-28f8-4478-881c-ecbf04e8fc51, visible-light-imaging
Organization: Department of the Interior
RBR sensor wave data for two sites in the coastal marsh at Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi, from April 2019 through January 2020

To better understand sediment deposition in marsh environments, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (USGS-SPCMSC) selected four study sites (Sites 5, 6, 7, and 8) along the Point Aux Chenes Bay shoreline of the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (GNDNERR), Mississippi. These datasets were collected to serve as baseline data prior to the installation of a living shoreline (a subtidal sill). Each site consisted of five plots located along a transect perpendicular to the marsh-estuary shoreline at 5-meter (m) increments (5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 m from the shoreline). Each plot contained six net sedimentation tiles (NST) that were secured flush to the marsh surface using polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe. NST are an inexpensive and simple tool to assess short- and long-term deposition that can be deployed in highly dynamic environments without the compaction associated with traditional coring methods. The NST were deployed for three month sampling periods, measuring sediment deposition from July 2018 to January 2020, with one set of NST being deployed for six months. Sediment deposited on the NST were processed to determine physical characteristics, such as deposition thickness, volume, wet weight/dry weight, grain size, and organic content (loss-on-ignition [LOI]). For select sampling periods, ancillary data (water level, elevation, and wave data) are also provided in this data release. Data were collected during USGS Field Activities Numbers (FAN) 2018-332-FA (18CCT01), 2018-358-FA (18CCT10), 2019-303-FA (19CCT01, 19CCT02, 19CCT03, and 19CCT04, respectively), and 2020-301-FA (20CCT01). Additional survey and data details are available from the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System (CMGDS) at, https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/. Data from a related NST study in the GNDNERR (Middle Bay and North Rigolets) can be found in Smith and others (2020). Data collected after the living shoreline (subtidal sill) installation can be found in Terrano and others (2025). For additional information on data processing and analysis, refer to the accompanying journal publication Smith and others (2025). Please read the full metadata for details on data collection, dataset variables, and data quality.

Tags: coastal-processes, datasets, depth, environment, field-inventory-and-monitoring, geology, geoscientificinformation, grand-bay-national-estuarine-research-reserve, gulf-of-mexico, hydrogeology, mississippi, nerr, ocean-sciences, ocean-wave-measurement, ocean-waves, oceans, significant-wave-height, significant-wave-period, spcmsc, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, united-states, usgs, usgs-cf713019-77f1-4e03-a5a9-420433de5a9c, water-level, wave-energy
Organization: Department of the Interior
5 m Bathymetric Contours for Long Island Sound (LIS1992)

This bathymetric contour data set was derived from a gridded data set obtained from URI (B.Tyce, G. Hatcher).  They used the "Gridder" program to obtain the grid.  This gridded data set was generated from the original NOS soundings from 9 track tape that was cleaned up and edited at URI. This work was done with the intention of producing the color poster called "Long Island Sound Estuary" (Connecticut Dept. of Environmental Protection"), 1993. The accuracy is  questionable.

Tags: arcview-shapefile, bathymetry, bathymetry-contours, block-island-sound, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, connecticut, contouring, elevation, geospatial-datasets, long-island-sound, marine-geology, new-jersey, new-york, oceans, rhode-island, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-cf6b6f96-211d-41dd-980b-7d2c471ca975
Organization: Department of the Interior
k193hw.m77t and k193hw.h77t: MGD77T data and header files for single-beam bathymetry data for field activity K-1-93-HW in Oahu, Hawaii from 02/20/1993 to 02/26/1993

Single-beam bathymetry data along with DGPS navigation data was collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey cruise K-1-93-HW. The cruise was conducted in Oahu, Hawaii from February 20 to February 26, 1993. The chief scientist was Mike Torresan from the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology office in Menlo Park, CA.
The purpose of this cruise was to create a detailed bathymetric map of the Mamala Bay seafloor that delimits the general extent of the acoustically-resolvable dredged material deposits. The geophysical source was a 12 kilohertz (kHz) Raytheon system.
These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/k/k193hw/html/k-1-93-hw.meta.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, distributions, geoscientificinformation, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, north-pacific-ocean, oahu, oceans, pacific-ocean, seafloor-topography, single-beam-bathymetry, single-beam-echo-sounder, state-of-hawaii, usgs-cf681286-38f9-4f08-aea3-725703399f0b, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
Discerning innate immunity in American kestrels, Falco sparverius, through 21 days post-hatch

Data consist of flow cytometry files that were generated in the analysis of white blood cells from kestrel blood.  Thus, data are in standard format that allows files created by one type of acquisition hardware and software to be analyzed by any other type.

Tags: avian-influenza, contamination-and-pollution, flow-cytometry, health, immunology, north-america, south-america, usgs-d19507db-0fc0-4091-b83d-d08df95361c3
Organization: Department of the Interior
Color Shaded-Relief GeoTIFF Image Showing the 2-m Bathymetry Generated from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Survey H11445 North of Plum Island, New York (H11445_MB2M_GEO.TIF, Geographic, WGS84)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Imagery, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provides a fundamental framework for research and management activities along this part of Long Island Sound, shows the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provides information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. Interpretive data layers were derived from the multibeam echo-sounder data and sidescan-sonar data collected north of Plum Island, New York. During November 2009, bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of a ground-truth reconnaissance survey. For more information on the ground-truth survey see http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2009/09059/.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bathymetry, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, computational-methods, connecticut-department-of-environmental-protection, ct-dep, elevation, geospatial-datasets, geotiff, h11445, hill-shaded, imagerybasemapsearthcover, long-island-sound, marine-geophysics, multibeam-bathymetry, multibeam-sonar, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, new-york, noaa, noaa-survey-h11445, north-america, oceans, ofr-2010-1005, open-file-report-2010-1005, orient-point, plum-island, reson-8101, reson-8125, sea-floor-characteristics, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-cf331cde-1925-4600-bf7b-bc331904c71f, usgs-woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center, whcmsc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Navigation at 10 second interval of swath bathymetry collected by the U.S. Geological Survey off the southern shore of Martha's Vineyard, 2007 (ESRI POINT SHAPEFILE, BATHY_10SEC.SHP)

The USGS Woods Hole Science Center conducted a nearshore geophysical survey offshore of the southern coast of Martha's Vineyard, in the vicinity of the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) in August 2007.  This mapping program was part of a larger research effort supporting the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Ripples Directed-Research Initiative (DRI) studies at MVCO by providing data collection and modeling.  The geophysical data will be used to provide initial conditions for wave and circulation models for the study area.  Ultimately, geophysical mapping, oceanographic measurements and modeling will help to improve our understanding of coastal sediment-transport processes.
The geophysical mapping utilized a suite of high-resolution instrumentation to map the surficial sediment distribution, depth and sub-surface geology: dual-frequency 100/500 KHz sidescan-sonar system, 234-KHz interferometric sonar, and 500 Hz -12 KHz chirp sub-bottom profiler. The survey was conducted aboard the M/V Megan Miller August 9-13, 2007. The study area covers 35 square kilometers from about 0.2 km to 5-km offshore of the south shore of Martha's Vineyard, and ranges in depth from ~ 5 to 20 meters.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bathymetry, cape-cod, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elizabeth-islands, esri-shapefile, field-activity-number-07011, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, interferometric-sonar, marine-geophysics, marthas-vineyard, navigational-data, north-america, northeast-united-states, oceans, r-v-megan-miller, sea-swathplus-234-khz, southeastern-massachusetts, swath-bathymetric-navigation, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-cf2ee59b-85b2-48dc-9fac-8040a75bc834, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Archive of Digital Boomer Seismic reflection Data Collected Offshore East-Central Florida During USGS Cruise 00FGS01, July 14-22, 2000

In July of 2000, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Florida Geological Survey (FGS), conducted a geophysical survey of the Atlantic Ocean offshore Florida's east coast from Brevard County to northern Martin County. This report serves as an archive of unprocessed digital boomer seismic reflection data, trackline maps, navigation files, GIS information, digital and handwritten Field Activity Collection System (FACS) logs, and Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata. A filtered and gained digital image of each seismic profile is also provided. The archived trace data are in standard Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) SEG-Y format (Barry and others, 1975) and may be downloaded and processed with commercial or public domain software such as Seismic Unix (SU). Examples of SU processing scripts and (USGS) software for viewing SEG-Y files (Zihlman, 1992) are also provided.
For more information on the seismic surveys see http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/g/g100fl/html/g-1-00-fl.meta.html
These data are also available via GeoMapApp (http://www.geomapapp.org/) and Virtual Ocean ( http://www.virtualocean.org/) earth science exploration and visualization applications.

Tags: 00fgs01, atlantic-ocean, boomer, brevard-county, distributions, florida, florida-geological-survey, indian-river-county, marine-geophysics, marine-seismic-reflection, martin-county, seg-y, seismic-reflection, seismic-reflection-methods, st-lucie-county, sub-bottom-profiling, substrate, usgs-cf2242d3-7ac1-4f79-83ed-9af9e4d25692
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.3 transects with end-point rate calculations for sheltered shorelines between Point Barrow and Icy Cape for the time period 1947 to 2012

The Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska is an area of strategic economic importance to the United States, is home to remote Native American communities, and encompasses unique habitats of global significance. Coastal erosion along the north coast of Alaska is chronic, widespread, may be accelerating, and is threatening defense and energy-related infrastructure, natural shoreline habitats, and Native communities. There is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes across the United States. To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.
There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change. Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments. The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast. The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.

Tags: accretion, alaska, anwr, arctic, arctic-national-wildlife-refuge, barrow, baseline, beaufort-sea, cape-halkett, chukchi-sea-ecoregion, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, colville-river, continental-island-shore-complex, demarcation-bay, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, drew-point, dsas, effects-of-coastal-change, elson-lagoon, end-point-rate, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, harrison-bay, historic-shoreline, jago-river, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, north-slope, npr-a, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, peard-bay, sagavanirktok-river, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change-rate, shoreline-erosion, smith-bay, staines-river, tangent-point, transect, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-cefa1c35-99e6-4e78-ad41-674d14593dbb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Acoustic-backscatter data collected in 2016 offshore the Elwha River mouth, Washington, during USGS Field Activity 2016-605-FA

These metadata describe acoustic-backscatter data collected during a 2016 SWATHPlus-M survey offshore the Elwha River mouth, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington. Data were collected and processed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) with fieldwork activity number 2016-605-FA. The acoustic-backscatter data are provided as a GeoTIFF image in UTM, zone 10, NAD83 coordinates.

Tags: cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, elevation, elwha-river, field-observation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, marine-geophysics, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-floor-characteristics, sonar-methods, state-of-washington, strait-of-juan-de-fuca, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-cf9ee05c-d5cc-4874-870c-6b27b9e059f8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Assessing the Effectiveness of Nourishment in Decadal Barrier Island Morphological Resilience: Model Inputs and Outputs (Initial_Elevations_NA)

Using version 5527 of the XBeach numerical model (Roelvink and others, 2009), barrier island morphological change was simulated at Dauphin Island, Alabama (AL), for a 30-year forecast of multiple storms and sea level rise, considering scenarios of no-action and beach and dune nourishment as described in Passeri and others (2021). The two-dimensional XBeach model can be applied to barrier islands to solve for time-dependent topography and bathymetry. The XBeach model setup requires the input of topographic and bathymetric elevations at each grid cell. Model inputs and outputs in the form of topography and bathymetry at each grid cell are provided in this data release. For further information regarding model input generation and visualization of model output, refer to Passeri and others (2021).

Tags: alabama, barrier-island-migration, bathymetry, coastal-processes, dauphin-island, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, marine-geology, morphologic-change, oceans, sea-level-change, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, storm-surge, topography, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-cef9bf85-98f1-4d01-b220-93d2db9ca79b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Photographs of sediment cores collected from Cargill Marsh, South San Francisco Bay, California during field activities 2022-643-FA and 2023-681-FA

This dataset includes photographs (linescan images) of sediment cores collected from Cargill Marsh, South San Francisco Bay, California on June 21, 2022, and December 14, 2023. The cores were collected with hand driven push cores to assess sediment accumulation on the marsh.

Tags: alameda-county, cargill-marsh, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, core-analysis, department-of-the-interior, doi, eden-landing-ecological-reserve, field-activity-number-2022-643-fa, field-activity-number-2023-681-fa, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, ocean-processes, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, san-francisco-bay, sediment, sediment-transport, state-of-california, substrate, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-ceef51f0-0d3f-46d8-8fd7-fe4cdba208ed, whales-tail-marsh, whales-tail-south-marsh
Organization: Department of the Interior
Time Series of Structure-from-Motion Products - Digital Elevation Models: Little Dauphin Island and Pelican Island, Alabama, September 2018 to April 2019

Aerial imagery acquired with a small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS), in conjunction with surveyed ground control points (GCP) visible in the imagery, can be processed with structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry techniques to produce high-resolution orthomosaics, three-dimensional (3D) point clouds and digital elevation models (DEMs). This dataset, prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC), provides UAS survey data products consisting of DEMs produced from imagery collected at Little Dauphin Island and Pelican Island, Alabama, from September 2018 to April 2019 in order to develop integrated models linking geomorphology, habitat characteristics, and non-breeding shorebird species usage.
Photogrammetry software was used to perform SfM processing on low-altitude digital aerial imagery acquired with a 3DR Solo UAS quadcopter equipped with a Ricoh GR II digital camera and MicaSense RedEdge 3 multispectral camera, using surveyed temporary targets (black and white, 4-square checked pattern) distributed uniformly throughout the UAS flight operations area as GCPs. The following SfM products are produced for each UAS survey over the northern half of Little Dauphin Island and all of Pelican Island:
* georeferenced red-green-blue (RGB) orthomosaic image with 5-centimeter (cm) resolution
* georeferenced multispectral (MS) orthomosaic image with 5-cm resolution
* DEM with 5-cm horizontal resolution
* 3D RGB-colored point cloud
All horizontal data are provided in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projected coordinate system, Zone 16 North (16N), referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83(2011)), and elevation is referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), GEOID12B.

Tags: alabama, cmgp, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, dauphin-island, digital-elevation-models, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, mobile-county, oceans, pelican-island, remote-sensing, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, structure-from-motion, topographic-maps, topography, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aircraft-systems, usgs, usgs-cee8cf1c-9b4e-4e3b-a5c8-f57f441dca70
Organization: Department of the Interior