AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail

This is a feature service showing the approximate designated route of the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail.

Tags: blm, bureau-of-land-management, ecological-framework-human-use-cultural-landscapes-cultural-landscapes, ecological-framework-human-use-visitor-and-recreation-use-visitor-use, el-camino-real-de-tierra-adentro-national-historic-trail, elca-nht, national-historic-trail, national-park-service, national-trail-system, national-trails-intermountain-region, new-mexico, nht, north-america, nps, ntir, nts, texas
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Forest Bird Inventory Database, Kahuku

The Kahuku Unit of the Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park (HAVO) was surveyed for native and non-native birds from January to September of 2005. Bird habitat comprised of forest, woodland, and grassland was divided into five separate regions, and these were surveyed with variable circular plot count methodology to generate estimates of abundance and occurrence. Sampling coverage was more intensive (i.e. several times more count transects and stations) than in past surveys, for more accurate estimates of range and population size. In addition to point counts, we recorded incidental observations to supplement the survey. The database contains detection data from the inventory for all bird species except the three endangered species (Hawaii Akepa, Hawaii Creeper, and Akiapolaau). Also included are the GIS shapefiles of the transects that were surveyed for the inventory.

Tags: birds, forest-birds, havo, hawaii-volcanoes-national-park, honomalino, inventory, kahuku, maun-loa-south-flank, papi, survey, variable-circular-point-counts, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

Aerial photointerpretation was conducted by the Project Manager with the help of an assistant mapper between the fall of 2012 and fall of 2014, using the 2009 1-meter spatial resolution National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery for the Utah portions of GLCA, and the 2010 1-meter spatial resolution NAIP for the Arizona portions of GLCA as the base image layers. The project used the program standard minimum mapping unit (MMU) of 0.5 ha with few exceptions.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

Aerial photointerpretation was conducted by the Project Manager with the help of an assistant mapper between the fall of 2012 and fall of 2014, using the 2009 1-meter spatial resolution National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery for the Utah portions of GLCA, and the 2010 1-meter spatial resolution NAIP for the Arizona portions of GLCA as the base image layers. The project used the program standard minimum mapping unit (MMU) of 0.5 ha with few exceptions. The majority of the mapping work was performed using ArcGIS editing tools and onscreen, heads-up digitizing, aided by ancillary datasets. Map classes were defined for the project by the primary photointerpreter (PI) with input from the GLCA Chief Scientist. A draft vegetation map and associated spatial database were completed for the Orange Cliffs section of GLCA in the summer of 2014 and for the remainder of GLCA/RABR in the late fall of 2014.

Forty-eight map classes represented by 33,691 polygons were developed for GLCA/RABR. A total of 31,058 polygons represent 37 natural or semi-natural vegetation map classes covering 75% of the mapping project area. Eleven additional land use/land cover and geologic map classes describe 2,633 polygons (25% of the area). Average polygon size across all map classes is 23.1 ha (57.2 acres). Blackbrush Shrublands had the highest number of polygons (5,560) polygons covering 14.5% of the total vegetated mapping area.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: NACE

Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics (HIS) is a National Park Service (NPS) Water Resources Division (WRD) project established to track certain goals created in response to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). One water resources management goal established by the Department of the Interior under GRPA requires NPS to track the percent of its managed surface waters that are meeting Clean Water Act (CWA) water quality standards. This goal requires an accurate inventory that spatially quantifies the surface water hydrography that each bureau manages and a procedure to determine and track which waterbodies are or are not meeting water quality standards as outlined by Section 303(d) of the CWA. This project helps meet this DOI GRPA goal by inventorying and monitoring in a geographic information system for the NPS: (1) CWA 303(d) quality impaired waters and causes; and (2) hydrographic statistics based on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). Hydrographic and 303(d) impairment statistics were evaluated based on a combination of 1:24,000 (NHD) and finer scale data (frequently provided by state GIS layers).

Tags: 303d, boundaries, boundary, canal, clean-water-act, cwa, designated-uses, ditch, geoscientificinformation, his, hydrographic-and-impairment-statistics, hydrographic-statistics, hydrography, impaired-waters, impairment, impairment-statistics, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lake, marsh, nace, national-capital-parks-east, national-hydrography-dataset, nhd, ocean, oceans, pond, regulatory, reservoir, resource-management, river, sea, seep, shoreline, spring, statistics, stream, swamp, tmdl, total-maximum-daily-load, water, waterfall, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Chaco Culture National Historical Park

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

The transfer process for the CHCU vegetation mapping project involved taking the interpreted line work and rendering it into a comprehensive digital network of attributed polygons. To accomplish this, we created an ArcInfo© GIS database using in-house protocols. The protocols consist of a shell (master file) of Arc Macro Language (AML) scripts and menus (nearly 100 files) that automate the transfer process, thus insuring that all spatial and attribute data are consistent and stored properly. The actual transfer of information from the interpreted orthophotos to a digital, geo-referenced format involved scanning, rasterizing, vectorizing, cleaning, building topology, and labeling each polygon.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Casa Grande National Monument

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

Forty-two polygons were mapped within the project boundary: 27 at the main unit and 15 at the Adamsville proposed expansion area. In total, 15 distinct types were identified across the study area. Seven of these types are Anderson Land Use Classes or variations thereof; the others are natural vegetation classes following the NVCS. Map classes were described at the alliance or association level; where known, alliance descriptions also include recognized associations. Due to the small area involved in this project, and to its relatively simple floristic attributes, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the map classes presented here and the community types described. A total of 35 species were recorded during the sampling efforts. Alliances and associations marked with (P) are proposed, not yet accepted into the NVC. In addition, summarized local descriptions, with example satellite image/signatures and representative photos for each alliance or association, follow this section.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Cedar Breaks National Monument

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

A combination of methods was used to delineate and interpret vegetation polygons for the mapping component of the CEBR project area. RMGSC cartographers acquired or created a number of ancillary spatial datasets: soils, geology, fire data, climate, fauna, invasive species, and CEBR and project boundaries. Digital elevation model (DEM) data were downloaded from the USGS Seamless Data Server (http://seamless.usgs.gov) and processed into a 10-meter ERDAS Imagine file. Slope and aspect information were derived from the DEM coverage. Vegetation information was obtained from Zion National Park from a survey that occurred in 1988 for the CEBR area. Mylar overlays and MOSS data layers were used to create this dataset. After receiving the files, the data were subsequently transferred to current digital orthophotos and output to a shapefile. Two classifications were nested within the original spatial dataset: a habitat type classification with 18 categories (145 polygons) and a community level classification with 29 classes (127 polygons). The polygon delineation was fairly coarse and the shapefile was used only as a reference for the current work. Another vegetation dataset that was acquired from the NPS was a USFS layer. This dataset was clipped to the CEBR area; this subset contained 125 polygons with 16 map classes. The age of these data and any additional metadata is unknown; therefore these general polygons were only used as a guide for the current project.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Colonial National Historical Park

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

Spatial data from field observation points and quantitative plots were used to edit the formation-level maps of Colonial National Historical Park to better reflect vegetation classes. Using ArcView 3.3, polygon boundaries were revised onscreen over leaf-off photography. Units used to label polygons on the map (i.e. map classes) are equivalent to one or more vegetation classes from the regional vegetation classification, or to a land-use class from the Anderson (Anderson et al. 1976) Level II classification system. Each polygon on the Colonial National Historical Park map was assigned to one of forty map classes based on plot data, field observations, aerial photography signatures, and topographic maps. The mapping boundary was based on park boundary data obtained Colonial National Historical Park in May 2003. The mapping boundary includes lands under a scenic easement at Swanns Point and it excludes the Cheatham Annex, an area that returned to US Navy ownership in February 2004. The vegetation map was clipped at the park boundary because areas outside the park were not surveyed or included in the accuracy assessment.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Jimmy Carter National Historic Site Tract and Boundary Data

These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

Tags: boundaries, boundary, georgia, jica, jimmy-carter-national-historic-site, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, southeast-region, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Colorado National Monument

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

Fifty-one map classes were developed to describe the COLM vegetation mapping project area. Of these, 26 are NVC-based vegetation map classes, four are geology map classes, seven are vegetated land use map classes and 14 are non-vegetated land-use map classes. Of the 26 vegetation map classes, 16 represent single NVC plant associations; the other 10 map classes contain multiple plant associations. One map class consists of point data representing seep and spring vegetation. It is contained in a separate coverage from the polygon map classes.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Chickasaw National Recreation Area

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

Instrumental to the photo interpretive effort was the use of the GPS located vegetation plots collected by the field crew. These plots provided an idea of what the signatures of the individual map units should look like. In addition to the tablular data associated with each vegetation plot were five photographs collected at each plot. These photographs helped not only in identifying the immediate area but also provided us with a “look” at the areas surrounding the vegetation plot which might be a different map unit. These photographs may be “hyperlinked” within ArcMap to the salient vegetation observation point for a better concept of on the ground conditions.All interpreted mylar layers were scanned at 300 dpi. Each scanned mylar was then rectified to the NAIP base layer using recognizable ground features as registration points. The resulting scan produced a raster image that was subsequently vectorized. Each vectorized output was then extensively edited to produce clean digital vector lines. From the digitized vectors we created polygons by building topology in the GIS program. Finally, we created labels for each polygon and used these to add the attribute information. Attribution for all the polygons at CHIC included information pertaining to map units, NVC associations, Anderson land-use classes, and other relevant data. Attribute data were taken directly from the interpreted photos or were added later using the orthophotos as a guide.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of City Of Rocks National Reserve

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

All classification plot information sampled in 2009 was documented, summarized, and geo-processed into a GIS shapefile that could be overlain on the NAIP ortho-imagery. CTI created preliminary map classes (also known as map units) based largely on whether the vegetation surrounding the plot locations could be readily identified and delineated on the NAIP imagery (i.e. photo signature development). Once the photo signatures were inventoried they were matched or cross-walked back to the preliminary list of plant associations prepared in the project work plan. Supplemental land-use and land-cover classes (Anderson 1976, amended 2002) were added to classify non-vegetated areas such as developments, roads, streams, ponds, bare ground, and active agricultural areas. All obvious land-use features were manually digitized and incorporated with the project boundary into a draft GIS layer. Initial interpretation and mapping focused only on delineating obvious landforms (e.g., geologic exposures and land use) and physiognomic features (e.g., grasslands versus shrublands versus woodlands).

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area Tract and Boundary Data

These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Bounds of the tracts and islands are photo interpreted from 1996 ortho photo mosaics created by the University of Rhode Island for the park. Tracts and islands are consistent with the legislated boundaries defined by PL 104-333 which also references map number BOHA 80,002. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

Tags: boha, boston-harbor-islands, boston-harbor-islands-national-recreation-area, boston-ma, boundaries, boundary, land-status-ownership, legislative-boundary, lrdcab, national-park-service, northeast-regional-office, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, segment-map, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Boston African American National Historic Site Tract and Boundary Data

These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

Tags: boaf, boston-african-american-national-historic-site, boundaries, boundary, lrdcab, massachusetts, national-park-service, northeast-regional-office, ownership, parcels, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hot Springs National Park Tract and Boundary Data

These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

Tags: arkansas, boundaries, boundary, hosp, hot-springs-national-park, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, midwest-region, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Congaree National Park

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

The designated base was the USGS digital orthophoto quarter quads (DOQQ’s) series for the Wateree and Gadsden 7.5 minute quadrangles. Creation of the DOQQ’s required having the image plotted onto clear mylar at the mapping input scale, approximately 1:12,000. To facilitate the geo referencing of the polygons, it was determined that the average (nominal) scale of the aerial photography was also approximately 1:12,000. Seven plots were generated at the normal scale on mylar overlays to cover the entire Monument and its environs.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior