AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Shapefiles and Historical Aerial Photographs, Little Missouri River, 1995

5 aerial photographs were taken along the Little Missouri River in 1995. All images were geo-referenced to the 1995 digital orthophoto quarter quadrangles as described by Miller and Friedman (2009). Both the flood plain and active channel of the river were delineated on the 1995 digital orthophoto quadrangles and overlaid on rectified photos. ArcGIS was used to draw the polygons that delineate the flood plain and active channel; the delineation was saved as a SHP file. The separate images (geoTIFFs) can be viewed as a composite along with that year's channel delineation (SHP file) using a geographic information system (GIS) application.
Reference: Miller, J.R., and J.M. Friedman. 2009. Influence of flow variability on flood-plain formation and destruction, Little Missouri River, North Dakota. Geological Society of America Bulletin 121:752-759.

Tags: aerial-photography, central-us, channel-adjustment, erosion, flood, flood-plain-formation, geoscientificinformation, little-missouri-river, mckenzie-county, nd, north-dakota, plains-cottonwood, theodore-roosevelt-national-park, united-states, usgs-591627c4e4b044b359e32eb7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 0261 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2016 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b5f5232e4b006a11f66ea1a, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Location of sea floor videos along with videos collected in 2012 by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Connecticut River during field activity 2012-024-FA (polyline shapefile and mp4 videos files)

A geophysical and geological survey was conducted at the mouth of the Connecticut River from Old Saybrook to Essex, Connecticut, in September 2012. Approximately 230 linear kilometers of digital Chirp subbottom (seismic-reflection) and 234-kilohertz interferometric sonar (bathymetric and backscatter) data were collected along with sediment samples, riverbed photographs, and (or) video at 88 sites within the geophysical survey area. Sediment grab samples were collected at 72 of the 88 sampling sites, video was acquired at 68 sites, and photographs of the river bottom were taken at 38 sites. These survey data are used to characterize the riverbed by identifying sediment-texture and riverbed morphology. More information can be found on the web page for the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center field activity: https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2012-024-FA. Data collected during the 2012 survey can be obtained here: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PG1Q7V.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, black-and-white-video, bottom-video, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, connecticut, connecticut-river, drop-camera, dropcam-video-camera, essex, estuary, field-activity-2012-024-fa, field-activity-number-12024, geoscientificinformation, grain-size-analysis, ground-truth, location, long-island-sound, m4v, marine-geology, mp4, navigational-data, north-america, oceans, old-saybrook, r-v-rafael, river, river-bed, riverbed, riverbed-video, sampling-navigation, sea-floor, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seabed-video, seaboss, seafloor, sediment-analysis, stations, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-2cd44e55-d605-478d-945d-a50d4ebfebb2, van-veen-grab-sampler, video, video-monitoring, video-observation, videography, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 5255 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2016 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b5f5455e4b006a11f66eb8a, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Multi-stressor literature summary information for Chesapeake Bay stressor identification project

This dataset includes summary information on the reports/studies compiled for the literature review portion of the Chesapeake Bay Stressor identification project. This dataset includes basic identifying information regarding the report (name of the report, last name of the first author, year published, persistent link to the report, etc.). It also lists the geographic location of the study (U.S. States or countries for those outside the U.S.), the type of field study, the major source or driver that was the focus of the study, and which in-stream stressors were measured. Finally, the dataset includes a decision code to denote whether the study/report results were included in this project’s analysis or not. If not, descriptor codes for reasons of exclusion are included.

Tags: alabama, austria, biota, canada, chesapeake-bay-watershed, colorado, connecticut, delaware, environment, freshwater-ecosystems, georgia, illinois, indiana, inlandwaters, kentucky, maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, missouri, nebraska, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, new-zealand, north-carolina, ohio, oregon, pennsylvania, portugal, south-carolina, spain, tennessee, texas, united-kingdom, united-states, usgs-62debbb7d34e295035a9c496, virginia, washington, water-quality, west-virginia, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project - Sacramento Basin Province (009) Assessment Units

The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources.  The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System.  The Assessment Unit is shown here as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum System, such as source rock, timing, migration pathways, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type.  The Assessment Unit boundary is defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the Assessment Unit, such as limits of reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies.  The only exceptions to this are Assessment Units that border the Federal-State water boundary.  In these cases, the Federal-State water boundary forms part of the Assessment Unit boundary.

Tags: 06, 50090101forbes-kione-and-older, 50090102lower-princeton-canyon-fill-and-northern-nonmarine, 500901dobbins-forbes, 50090201late-cretaceous-deltaic-and-submarine-fan, 50090202shallow-marine-sands-and-canyon-fill, 500902winters-domengine, allegra-hosford-scheirer, assessment-unit, ca, earth-science, economic-geology, energy-resources, geology, geoscientificinformation, national-assessment-of-oil-and-gas, natural-gas, natural-gas-resources, natural-resources, noga2000, nogasacramento, northern-california, northern-central-valley, oil, oilgas, resource-assessment, sacramento-basin, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, us06-california, usgs, usgs-60d3ac5bd34e12a1b009decc, usgs-world-energy-region-5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 0655 Land-Water Classification Data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum.  As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites.  A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2015 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery.  These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors.  The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition.  Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012).  Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-593875e2e4b0764e6c5d6c01, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015 Site 0590 Land-Water Matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum.  As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum.  As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites.  This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-593875e2e4b0764e6c5d6c00, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
XYZ dataset of lidar and multibeam data collected at Lake Superior at the Duluth Entry, Duluth, MN, September 2020

This dataset consists of two files containing northing, easting, and elevation ("XYZ") information for light detection and ranging (lidar) data representing the beach and near-shore topography of Lake Superior at the Duluth Entry, Duluth, Minnesota. The point data is the same as that in the LAS dataset used to create a digital elevation model (DEM) of the approximately 1.87 square kilometer surveyed area. Lidar data were collected September 23, 2020 using a boat mounted Velodyne unit. Multibeam sonar data were collected September 22-23, 2020 using a Norbit integrated wide band multibeam system compact (iWBMSc) sonar unit. Methodology similar to Wagner, D.M., Lund, J.W., and Sanks, K.M., 2020 was used.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, digital-elevation-models, duluth, elevation, great-lakes, inlandwaters, lake-superior, lidar, limnology, southwestern-lake-superior, usgs-6137b65bd34e40dd9c0cdb98
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 267010  Ruang

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d012abe4b0236b68f52bd2, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Particle-size distributions of core samples collected from the borehole for monitoring well ESW2B at Fort Irwin National Training Center, San Bernardino County, California

As part of a larger groundwater research study conducted at the U.S. Army Fort Irwin National Training Center (NTC), located approximately 35 miles north-northeast of Barstow, California, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have cooperated to evaluate unsaturated zone soil property data of cores from the borehole for a newly drilled monitoring well (ESW2B). Specific horizons of interest were identified and selected for detailed grain-size distribution analysis using the Fritsch Analysette A28 Image Sizer (particle analyzer) located at the USGS California Water Science Center (CAWSC) in San Diego, CA. The particle analyzer identified circularity and grain size (feret diameter) for individual grains in each subsample. Ten core subsamples from the ESW2B site were analyzed with the particle analyzer. Quality-assurance data collected as part of this task included measurements of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standard 8010, and custom reference materials (including a sample of alluvium from the Mojave River, and a combination of round silica beads and plastic bugle beads) created in the USGS San Diego office. A sieve analysis was done on one core subsample using ASTM International method D6913 (method A; 2017) as additional quality assurance method.

Tags: environment, fort-irwin, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, hydrology, mojave, san-bernardino, soil-moisture, soil-sciences, usgs-5ef650d382ced62aaae8d193
Organization: Department of the Interior
Plant trait and soil moisture data associated with ontogenetic trait shifts - seedlings display high trait variability during early stages of development

These tabular data were compiled to document how key plant trait values change during plant development, particularly seedling stages, and in relation to soil moisture. An objective of our study was to answer three main research questions: (1) Do seedling trait values differ across early to late stages of seedling development and do those trajectories vary among plant species and functional types (i.e., forbs vs. grasses)?; (2) Does water availability influence seedling ontogenetic trait variation? and, if so, does this variation affect plant species drought performance?; and (3) Do seedling trait values at early stages of development differ from complied trait database values for species? These data represent key trait values, including specific leaf area, root:shoot ratio, specific root length, and root dry matter content of 20 – 62-day-old seedlings grown under low and high levels of water availability. These data were collected from July-October 2019 at the Research Greenhouse at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. These data were collected by U.S. Geological Survey staff and greenhouse assistants at Northern Arizona University using observations and destructive harvesting of plants in a greenhouse setting. These data can be used to understand variation in functional traits early in plant development to predict community level processes and ecosystem responses to environmental change and ecological restoration practices.

Tags: arizona, biological-and-physical-processes, biota, flagstaff, functional-types, laboratory-experiments, life-sciences, northern-arizona-university, ontogeny, organism-growth-and-development, plant-development, plant-traits, plants-organisms, research-greenhouse, root-dry-matter-content, root-shoot-ratio, roots, seed-germination, seed-treatments, seeding, seedling-development, seedling-traits, seeds, soil-moisture, specific-leaf-area, specific-root-length, usgs-606f3362d34ef998701889eb, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Solid/Water Partitioning of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in New Hampshire Soils and Biosolids: Results from Laboratory Experiments at the U.S. Geological Survey

Data from a laboratory study undertaken at the U.S. Geological Survey to investigate solid/water partitioning of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in New Hampshire soils and biosolids are presented here. Soils and biosolids used for the experiments were collected using PFAS-free sampling equipment, air dried, gently homogenized, and sieved (soils only). Soil samples were collected from locations with known PFAS contamination (n = 5) and nearby sites with similar soil characteristics but low expected PFAS concentrations (n = 4). Finished biosolids were collected directly from facilities at the final stage of processing and before distribution. Air-dried soils and biosolids were then used for a series of batch and column experiments to determine water/solid distribution coefficient (Kd) values. This study investigated the impact of pH, ionic strength, adsorption versus desorption, soil/biosolid type, experimental setup (batch versus column), and influence of sodium azide on Kd values. All batch and column experiments were run for 10 days as determined by a 16-day kinetics test. The dataset presented here includes concentration of PFAS, concentration of PFAS post total oxidizable precursor assay (TOPA), pH, moisture content, total organic carbon concentrations, aluminum concentrations, iron concentrations, sodium concentrations, cation exchange capacity, anion exchange capacity, grain size, and protein concentrations for the unprocessed soil and biosolids collected from the site (soils) or facility (biosolids). These are denoted as "Environmental - Biosolid" or "Environmental - Soil" samples in the data release. The dataset also includes the solid and water results (PFAS, TOPA, pH, specific conductivity, dissolved organic carbon, major anions, and metals) from the batch and column experiments, along with the calculated Kd values. Calculated Kd values are presented for every PFAS compound with detections in the solid and water phases and, with caution, can be used to help constrain estimates for PFAS mobility in the New Hampshire environment.

Tags: contaminant-transport, environment, usgs-63c9aaa1d34e06fef14f3a99
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Wendel, California

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an
aircraft that recorded magnetic-field values and locations.  This dataset
presents latitude, longitude, altitude, and magnetic-field values.

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, ca, california, f06035-lassen, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, residual-magnetic-field, total-field, united-states, usgs-996523a3-aa79-4b44-a5f5-03b93e619cf1, wendel
Organization: Department of the Interior