AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Landscape Dynamics - American Samoa - C-CAP Land Cover Natural versus Converted, 2010

Landscape dynamics land cover source for the NPS Inventory and Monitoring national Environmental Settings protocol, representing C-CAP 2010 natural versus converted land cover classification for American Samoa.

Tags: american-samoa, ccap, ccap-natural-converted, ecological-framework-landscapes-landscape-dynamics-land-cover-and-use, im, imd, inventory-and-monitoring, land-cover, landcover-natural-converted, landcover-raster, landscape, landscape-dynamics, lnc, monitoring, natural-systems, natural-versus-converted, pacific-island, pacific-island-network, pacn, resource-conservation-vulnerability-and-opportunity, resource-management
Organization: Department of the Interior
WRST Snow Monitoring Sites

Snow monitoring site locations for Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.

Snow monitoring stations for Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve maintained by the park, the Central Alaska Network of the National Park Service and cooperating partners.

Tags: aerial-snow-markers, alaska, climatology-meteorology-atmosphere, ecological-framework-air-and-climate-weather-and-climate-weather-and-climate, snow-courses, snow-monitoring, snow-survey, snowpack, snowtel, weather-climate, wrangell-st-elias-national-park-and-preserve, wrst
Organization: Department of the Interior
Rincon Mountain East Slope Uplands Vegetation Transects Database

Access database housing the uplands transect data collected as part of the Rincon Mountain east slope vegetation monitoring project at Saguaro National Park.

Tags: database, east-slope, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-desert-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-vegetation-complex, rincon-mountains, vegetation-transects
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shenandoah National Park (VA): Natural Resource Condition Assessment NPS/SHEN/NRR—2016/1190 - related geospatial dataset

Geospatial data related to Natural Resource Report NPS/SHEN/NRR—2016/1190

Tags: 2230774, 2233602, appalachians, blue-ridge-mountains, forest-health, gis, habitat-quality, im-program, invasive-plants-and-pests, land-use, monitoring, national-park-service, natural-resource-condition-assessment, ner, northeast-region, nps, nrca, shen, shenandoah-national-park, species-populations, va, virginia, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cape Cod National Seashore Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD) Profiles

Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD) Profiles associated with submerged mapping cruises, FIIS

Tags: benthic-ecology, benthic-habitat, benthic-habitat-mapping, caco, cape-cod, cape-cod-national-seashore, conductivity, ctd, depth, hurricane-sandy, hxsandy, marine-geology, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, phase-measuring-sidescan-sonar, profiles, seafloor, seafloor-mapping, sediment, submerged-habitat, submerged-habitat-mapping, temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sagebrush Steppe Ecological Resilience and Invasion Resistance Geodatabase for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

Geospatial database of soils, vegetation, and related information that supports mapping and assessment of potential ecological resilience to fire and resistance to annual grass invasion in upland steppe of the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

Tags: artemisia-tridentata, big-sagebrush, big-sagebush, biological-invasion, bromus-tectorum, cheat-grass, cheatgrass, downy-brome, early-chess, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-shrubland-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-vegetation-complex, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-plants, fire, military-grass, resilience, resistance, sagebrush-steppe, soils, topography, wild-oats
Organization: Department of the Interior
Accessible Parking, National Mall Vicinity

This data represents parking areas in the National Mall and Memorial Parks designated for people with disability tags or placards displayed on their vehicle.  Disability tags or placards must be issued by a state or equivalent agency.  People using these areas are still required to pay for parking if indicated.

These areas are subject to change or closure without notice. Users must obey all posted signage and pay for parking where required.

Tags: accessibility, disabled, parking
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: DINO

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, dino, dinosaur-national-monument, ditch, geoscientificinformation, his, hydrographic-and-impairment-statistics, hydrographic-statistics, hydrography, impaired-waters, impairment, impairment-statistics, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lake, marsh, 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 Lake Mead 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.

All of the interpreted and remotely sensed data were converted to Geographic Information System (GIS) databases using ArcMap© software and are included in a comprehensive geodatabase. Draft maps created from the vegetation classification were field-tested and revised before independent ecologists conducted an assessment of the map’s accuracy during 2014.

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
Soundscapes of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

This is a vector point dataset representing locations where targeted sound recordings were made in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks as part of the SEKI Soundscape Project.  The recordings were mostly made by Dr. Jacob Job of the Light and Sound Ecology Team at Colorado State University and Steven Bumgardner of Midpines Media in the years 2017 and 2018, although the dataset does include some NPS staff recordings and other collaborator recordings from other years.

Tags: ecological-framework-landscapes-soundscape-soundscape, national-park-service, nps, seki, sequoia-and-kings-canyon-national-parks, sound, soundscape
Organization: Department of the Interior
Investigating Potential Impacts of Hemlock Decline on Stream-Side Birds in the Walker Valley.

"PI is studying the impact of hemlock decline in riparian areas on the riparian obligate bird species Louisiana waterthrush and the hemlock-associated bird species Acadian flycatcher.  Citizen scientists assist with fitting these two species with colored leg bands along the Middle Prong of the Little River, following unique individuals to map territory size, monitor nest success, collect habitat data, and mapping habitat usage based on fecal splay surveys along streams.  Population numbers and reproductive effort will be compared to the pre-hemlock wooly adelgid data on waterthrush populations from the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) station that was run from 2000 through 2006.
During its first year in 2012, 30 individual waterthrush were banded (color-banded 29). Their movements were tracked while they remained in proximity to Tremont's campus and one nest was found and followed.
A technician was hired for 2013 to focus on the data collection and to train volunteers.  54 waterthrush were color-banded in 2013 during the MAPS station, during targeted netting, or as nestlings, including 7 territorial males whose territories were mapped, using observations and fecal deposits.  A total of six nests in 5 of their territories were found and followed, resulting in 13 young fledged.  One pair was successful with their second nesting attempt after predation of their first nest.  The male of the other failed nest was feeding fledglings a few days after it failed, presumably having had two females nesting in his territory.  Only 6% of the banded birds from 2012 returned the next year, but most of those banded in 2012 were juveniles that likely did not survive the winter.
Six of the seven males monitored in Walker Valley in 2013 returned in 2014.  PI monitored 33 territories and 19 nests from Walker Valley to Anthony Creek Picnic Area.  Raw nest success was 64.3% in 2014, but only two nests were found within untreated hemlock-dominated forest and both were abandoned.
In 2015, return rate for male waterthrush was 58% from 2014.  Of 32 nests found, half fledged and 31% were predated, the rest abandoned:  52% raw success, down from 2014."

Tags: aphn, appalachian-highlands-network, bird-banding, canada-hemlock, citizen-science, eastern-hemlock, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, habitat-data, hemlock, hemlock-spruce, middle-prong, nest-success, origin-external, reproduct, riparian-obligate-birds, ser, southeast-region, studyid-grsm-01101, tsuga-canadensis
Organization: Department of the Interior
Prince William Forest Park Forest Gaps

LiDAR derived vector representation of forested and forest gap areas of PRWI. 

These data are part of a large data set describing the three-dimensional structure of vegetation in portions of four, primarily forested national parks: Prince William Forest Park, Catoctin Mountain Park, C&O Canal National Historical Park, and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. All four parks are within the National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Network and contain forest monitoring plots that have been measured yearly since 2005. We acquired Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) surveys of these parks during leaf-on conditions in 2009 and 2010. From these data four primary products were generated: (1) digital elevation models (2-m resolution DEMs), (2) Canopy height models (at 1- and 2-m resolutions), (3) canopy gaps (defined as 2-m grid cells with canopies shorter than 3m), and (4) understory percent cover (2-m resolution). All data products are made available in standard GIS-compatible file formats and are intended to be used to understand spatial patterns in vegetation structure and as documentation of baseline conditions. Future assessments of vegetation structure using the same or similar methods would enable assessment of change in vegetation structure over time.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-forest-woodland-communit, environment, gaps, lidar, ncrn, prince-william-forest-park, prwi, united-states-of-america, usa, va, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Observation Towers

Within the compass of this heading is included a wide range of structures, the common denominator of all being the provision of means for negotiating a view. Lookouts may eventuate from the practical requirement of forest fire detection, or from determination on the part of designing technician or willful band of park users, hyper-view conscious, for something bigger and better and more distant in views than Nature unaided could achieve. Between the grimly functional lookout of the ranger and the utmost in aesthetic structural elevation contrived by the view-for-view's-sakers is greater distance than any park vista will ever provide. When it has been essayed to superimpose the too conscious aspirations of the aesthetic, on the structurally sufficient skeleton of the fire detection tower, the literally "crowning" error in park development has been committed. Probably a frank rendering of either extreme, free of gesture toward the other, is better than any hybrid produced by crossing the two irreconcilables. Examination of existing timber-framed trestle-type lookout towers for aesthetic values will prove disheartening. In general, the oil derrick as their inspirational source is painfully undisguised. This conclusion cannot be held in disparagement of the designers, if it be honestly admitted that they have valiantly sought to solve the unsolvable.

Tags: buildings-structures, facilities, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, points-of-interest, protection-public-safety
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aerial photography for Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

Aerial photography of the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. 
The digital color infrared (CIR) orthomosaic is based on 2006 & 2007 aerial photography with a pixel ground resolution of 1 meter. The natural color rendering orthomosaic was created from the color infrared (CIR) aerial photo orthomosaic.

Tags: aerial-photography, ak, alaska, cir, color-infrared, national-park-service, natural-color, orthomosaic, true-color, yuch, yukon-charley-rivers-national-preserve
Organization: Department of the Interior
Formations with Climbing Routes, Joshua Tree National Park

This feature point class depicts the climbing formations and the associated climbing route name and information within Joshua Tree National Park. This data is for use in the Climbing Management Story Map for public consumption. Please note that the names of climbing formations and routes are not chosen by NPS staff, but rather from the local and visiting climbing communities and are recorded in this dataset. This data is updated and reviewed on a regular basis and updated by the Joshua Tree National Park GIS Department.

Tags: climbing, climbing-formations, climbing-routes
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Brook Trout Genetics

These data depict the locations (only) of all Brook Trout Genetics study sites in the park. Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) is committed to monitoring ecological and evolutionary functions and processes of park ecosystems. Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is the only salmonid native to the Southern Appalachians and functions as a keystone species in some headwater streams. The historic use of hatchery-reared brook trout for supplemental and restorative stocking in GRSM underscores the need to recognize the evolutionary relationship among stream populations. A recent survey of microsatellite DNA variation in GRSM brook trout indicated the presence of highly significant differentiation at all hieratical levels which suggests that the individual stream should be considered the unit of management. Given that management resources are limited and that stream-specific management is often not practical, fisheries managers need to know whether the genetic divergence observed among GRSM brook trout reflect adaptive differences or is the variation due to stochastic processes like random genetic drift. DNA microarrays are a powerful method for the global analysis of steady-state intracellular mRNA levels, and thus identifying genes that are transcriptionally modulated as a consequence of metabolic or bioenergetic demands. The information gathered from these arrays of gene sequences can be used to characterize complex biological processes and interactions providing insight into the adaptive significance of observed genetic differentiation. This research objective, if funded, would represent the first attempt at determining whether GRSM fisheries managers should focus their resources on genetic relatedness or demographics.

Tags: fisheries, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, hydrology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Water Quality Monitoring Locations

A feature class depicting geographic locations where permanent water quality monitoring locations have been established in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This includes monitoring location sites established by the National Park Service and other state and federal agencies responsible for water quality monitoring and reporting. Agencies responsible for a monitoring location are listed in the attributes ORGANIZATIONIDENTIFIER and ORGANIZATIONFORMALNAME. For the display, query, and analysis of legacy and current hydrology spatial and tabular data; Consolidate and centralize a very diverse range and quantity of monitoring location site data from numerous programs and protocols; Mitigate the duplication of monitoring location data across shared systems; Allow for single-source identification and management of monitoring location sites that are "co-located"; Provide a single point of data entry, management, query, analysis, and display of water quality data from numerous sources, including STORET which are sourced from an accurate monitoring location database; Enable spatial relationship of water quality monitoring data to High-Resolution USGS NHD Reaches through the use of modern GIS, database, and statistics software; Support USGS and EPA standards for spatial and non-spatial hydrology and water quality data exchange and sharing. Very important details are included in the attached metadata document and should be read thoroughly before these data are used.

Tags: fisheries, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, hydrology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Statue Of Liberty National Monument 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, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial 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, lrdcab, national-park-service, nero, ownership, parcels, pennsylvania, planning-cadastre, thaddeus-kosciuszko-national-memorial, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Minute Man 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.

James W. Sewall Company developed a complete GIS coverage for the park and revised the preliminary vegetation map classes to better match the results from the cluster analysis and NMS ordination. Polygons representing vegetation stands were digitized on-screen in ArcGIS 8.3, and later in ArcMap 9.1 and 9.2, using lines drawn on the acetate overlays, base layers of 1:8,000 CIR aerial photography, orthorectified photo composite image, and plot location and data. The minimum map unit used was 0.5 ha (1.24 ac). Stereo pairs were used to double check stand signatures during the digitizing process. Photo interpretation and polygon digitization extended outside the NPS boundary, especially where vegetation units were arbitrarily truncated by the boundary.
Each polygon was attributed with the name of a vegetation map class or an Anderson Level II land use category based on plot data, field observations, aerial photography signatures, and topographic maps. Data fields identifying the USNVC association inclusions within the vegetation map class were attributed to the vegetation polygons in the shapefile.
The GIS coverages and shapefiles were projected to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 19 North American Datum 1983 (NAD83). FGDC compliant metadata (FGDC 1998a) were created with the NPS-MP ESRI extension and included with the vegetation map shapefile. A photointerpretation key to the map classes for the 2006 draft vegetation map is included as Appendix A. The composite vegetation coverage was clipped to the NPS 2002 MIMA boundary shapefile for accuracy assessment (AA). After the 2006 vegetation map was completed, the thematic accuracy of this map was assessed.

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
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve 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, kansas, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, midwest-region, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tallgrass-prairie-national-preserve, tapr, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior