AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Fire Island National Seashore Side-scan Sonar Data, 2015

This dataset presents the processed sidescan mosaic for Fire Island National Seashore. The acoustic sonar survey was conducted using a EdgeTech 6205, a Multi-Phase Echo sounder system. This combined bathymetry and dual-frequency sidescan sonar system is optimized for shallow water surveying. The sonar system was bow-mounted to a 28-ft pontoon survey vessel customized for shallow water surveying, including having a draft of less than one foot. Data was collected using GeoDas software developed by Ocean Imaging Consultants (OIC) and monitored topside in real-time to ensure quality of data and full-coverage sidescan was being achieved. The data were collected in association with an Applanix POS MV system to assure positional accuracy and to correct for vessel motion (pitch, roll, heave). The survey was designed to acquire full-coverage sidescan data and partial coverage bathymetry data. As such, the survey was composed of parallel track lines with line spacing of 35 to 50 m and a sonar swath range of 50 m (25 m per side) to ensure overlap with adjacent lines. The raw sidescan and bathymetry records were processed using OIC CleanSweep software (Version 3.8.0, Build #263). All of the acoustic data were examined manually to confirm quality and accuracy. For sidescan, processing followed standard techniques of bottom-tracking the data and then applying angle-varying gains (AVG) and look-up tables (LUT) as necessary to correct for water column returns, arrival angle, and contrast to produce color-balanced sidescan sonar images. The native images are displayed as an inverse gold color scale, with pixel values ranging from zero (dark gold) to 255 (white). The lighter pixels indicate hard acoustic returns and represent the presence of hard surficial sediments (e.g. coarse sand, cobbles, and boulders), whereas darker pixels represent the presence of soft sediments, which tend to absorb sound to a greater degree. The horizontal coordinate system was set to UTM Zone 18N and sidescan data was processed to 25cm pixel resolution.

Tags: bathymetry, benthic-habitat, benthic-habitat-mapping, fiis, fire-island, fire-island-national-seashore, hurricane-sandy, hxsandy, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, side-scan-sonar, sonar, submerged-habitat, submerged-habitat-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Gateway SLOSH Category 1-4 Inundation Polygons

This layer was developed as part of the project "Assessing Inundation Risk from Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge for the Northeast Coastal National Parks" The Parks included in this study are Acadia NP, Assateague Island Nat. Seashore, Boston Harbor Island National Rec. Area, Cape Cod Nat. Seashore, Colonial Nat. Historical Park, Fire Island Nat. Seashore, Gateway National Rec. Area, and George Washington Birthplace Nat. Historical Park.

Tags: ecological-framework-air-and-climate-weather-and-climate-weather-and-climate, hurricanes, inundation, slosh
Organization: Department of the Interior
Gateway MHHW-NAVD88 Conversion Surface

This layer was developed as part of the project "Assessing Inundation Risk from Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge for the Northeast Coastal National Parks" The Parks included in this study are Acadia NP, Assateague Island Nat. Seashore, Boston Harbor Islands National Rec. Area, Cape Cod Nat. Seashore, Colonial Nat. Historical Park, Fire Island Nat. Seashore, Gateway National Rec. Area, and George Washington Birthplace Nat. Historical Park.

Tags: conversion-surface, ecological-framework-air-and-climate-weather-and-climate-weather-and-climate, mean-high-high-water, mhhw, navd88
Organization: Department of the Interior
National Park Service Alaska Region Archive of Elemental Concentration of Moss Tissue, Lichen Tissue and Soils, 2000 – 2019

This data archive holds the elemental concentration and associated data from moss, lichen and soil collections in the NPS Alaska Region from 2000 to 2019.  The sample media analyzed came from 17 different projects addressing a variety of purposes.  Many of these have corresponding peer-reviewed publications and typically those publications also reference data archives in IRMA (irma.nps.gov) that hold portions of the current archive.  The archive is divided into two folders:

•	The Compiled_Data folder consists of an archive description and a compilation of all of the raw data in the region between 2000 and 2019 (Tissue_Master_20250211.xlsx).  The Compiled_Data folder contains a subfolder with CSV versions of the individual worksheets of the Tissue_Master_20250211.xlsx workbook.
•	The Raw_Data folder contains the lab reports and environmental data for each year or project.

Within the main archive (Tissue_Master 20250211.xlsx) there are five worksheets:

1.	Joined: a join of all Elemental data with matching data from the Site worksheet.
2.	Elemental: elemental analysis data for all moss, lichen and soil data
3.	Site: data on collection, project, publication, coordinates, and spatial accuracy.
4.	Lab Job Data: data on the analytical laboratory conducting the analysis and other pertinent details
5.	SRM Values: Standard Reference Material values used in QA/QC
6.	Metadata: descriptions of all data fields.

In addition to the records in this archive, there are additional soil elemental data from 2017 in CAKR along the Red Dog Mine Haul Road.  These are included as an appendix in an attached M.S. Thesis from Oregon State University.

Tags: contaminants, elemental-concentration, heavy-metals, metals, moss, pollutants, pollution, soils, tissue
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fort Vancouver 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, fort-vancouver-national-historic-site, lrdcab, national-park-service, oregon, ownership, pacific-west, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: TUPE

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, national-hydrography-dataset, nhd, ocean, oceans, pond, regulatory, reservoir, resource-management, river, sea, seep, shoreline, spring, statistics, stream, swamp, tmdl, total-maximum-daily-load, tupe, tupelo-national-battlefield, water, waterfall, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: VICK

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, national-hydrography-dataset, nhd, ocean, oceans, pond, regulatory, reservoir, resource-management, river, sea, seep, shoreline, spring, statistics, stream, swamp, tmdl, total-maximum-daily-load, vick, vicksburg-national-military-park, water, waterfall, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: WRBR

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, 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, wrbr, wright-brothers-national-memorial
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Geologic Map of the Northern and Western Flanks of the Black Hills, Wyoming (NPS, GRD, GRE, DETO)

The Digital Geologic Map of the Northern and Western Flanks of the Black Hills, Wyoming is composed of GIS data layers, two ancillary GIS tables, a Windows Help File with ancillary map text, figures and tables, GIS data layer and table FGDC metadata and ArcView 3.X legend (.AVL) files.  The data were completed as a component of the Geologic Resource Evaluation (GRE) program, a National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) funded program that is administered by the NPS Geologic Resources Division (GRD).  All GIS and ancillary tables were produced as per the NPS GIS-Geology Coverage/Shapefile Data Model (available at: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/geology/GeologyGISDataModel.cfm).  The GIS data is available as coverage and table export (.E00) files, and as a shapefile (.SHP) and DBASEIV (.DBF) table files.  The GIS data projection is NAD83, UTM Zone 13N.  That data is within the area of interest of Devils Tower National Monument.

Tags: deto, devils-tower-national-monument, devils-tower-quadrangle, digital-data, digital-geologic-gis-map, digital-geologic-map, environment, geologic-gis-map, geologic-map, geologic-resource-evaluation, geologic-resources-division, geologic-resources-inventory, geology, geoscientific-information, gis-data, grd, gri, missouri-buttes-quadrangle, national-park-service, new-haven-quadrangle, north-america, northern-and-western-flanks-of-the-black-hills, nps, united-states, us, usa, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Lava Beds 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.

First, the Oregon Geographic Information Council coordinated the acquisition of the project imagery for the state of Oregon and adjacent California in the summer of 2009 through an agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture, Farm Services Agency, and National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). The Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office provided Digital Video Disks of the imagery to the Southern Oregon University research team. The imagery was projected to Universal Transverse Mercator zone 10, North American Datum (1983), with a spatial resolution of 1m (3.3 ft). The Lava Beds region imagery was then subset from the NAIP aerial orthophotography acquired for the entire state of Oregon and adjacent California. The 2009 NAIP imagery was collected with a Leica ADS40-SH51 digital camera that recorded 4-band multi-spectral (red, green, blue, and infrared wavelength) images. The Klamath Network staff did not make any additional modifications to the delivered NAIP imagery. Second, we used the ESRI world imagery in conjunction with the NAIP imagery when mapping.

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 Lava Beds 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.

The classified plot data were overlaid with the imagery to serve as an interpretive guide. Vegetation associations guided the creation of map units, which crosswalk to one or more component associations. Map units were defined by the lowest common level in the USNVC hierarchy of its component associations. Fifteen USNVC group, alliance, or association level vegetation types, and two non-natural land cover types (Anderson et al. 1976) were delineated using onscreen digitizing techniques. These 17 map units were later reduced to 15 as two map units eliminated by merging them with the types with which they were most often confused.

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
Gaging Station Data and Reports - Death Valley National Park, Devils Hole #362532116172701, 1990-2016

Devils Hole is a collapsed depression in limestone hills adjacent to the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge that contains a warm-water pool about 15 meters below land surface. The pool is home to a unique species of desert pupfish Cyprinodon Diabolis that is listed as endangered. The population feeds and reproduces on a slightly submerged rock ledge. In 1952, a 16.2 hectare tract of land containing Devils Hole was incorporated into the Death Valley National Monument as a detached management area. The area is currently a part of Death Valley National Park. In the late 1960's and early 1970's irrigation pumping in Ash Meadows lowered the Devils Hole pool level and the pupfish were threatened with extinction. In 1973 the U.S. District Court granted a preliminary injunction from pumping that would lower the pool level more than 0.91 meters below the datum. The injunction was made permanent by the U.S. District Court and upon appeal the Supreme Court affirmed the lower court decision. In 1978 the U.S. District Court issued a permanent injunction to limit pumping to maintain a daily mean water level of 0.82 meters below the datum based on scientific studies. Water levels recovered in response to reduction and ultimately to cessation of pumping in Ash Meadows. By 1988 the pool level had recovered to about 0.3 meters below the pre-pumping level when it began to decline again. Concerns were raised that in the intermediate to long-term future the pool level would fall below the court mandated minimum level. Principle potential stresses causing long-term stage changes are considered to be regional ground-water pumping and changes in recharge. Water levels are measured in the pool on a continuous basis to monitor trends in water levels and to protect the endangered pupfish.

Tags: california, death-valley, death-valley-national-park, deva, devils-hole, endangered-species, gaging-station, ground-water, groundwater, inlandwaters, national-park-service, nevada, pupfish, spring, water, water-resources-division, water-rights-branch, wrb, wrbsg, wrd
Organization: Department of the Interior
NAIP Quarter-quad Index - NPS Quarter-quads of Interest

Shape file of NAIP holdings for NPS quads of interest.

This data set is a single shape file that shows the locations of Digital Orthophoto Quarter-quad (DOQQ) images that are available through the National Park Service's (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring Program. Most of these data sets are from the NAIP program. A full description of NAIP data can be found at the web site of the USDA Aerial Photography Field Office (APFO): http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/apfoapp?area=home&subject=prog&topic=nai. A small number of the data sets were not produced by the NAIP program but are "NAIP-like" and may not have complete metadata records. The geographic extent of the shape file was determined by the NPS "Quarter-quads of Interest" (QQOI). There are several updates in this version of the shapefile (NPS_DOQQ_20140401.shp), compared to the previous version (NPS_DOQQ_20091116.shp). These updates during the spring of 2014 reflected the acquisition of the 2013 NAIP data sets for several states.  A small number of quarter-quads in the Southeast Region were added to the shape file as a result of requests from parks, based on watershed boundaries or other criteria. These additions to the shape file are not additions to the official NPS QQOI layer and in no way indicate an NPS-wide intention to acquire other data sets (e.g. base cartographic layers) for these added quarter-quads. They were added simply for DOQQ management and acquisition purposes. In addition to these updates, the "QUADNAME" addtribute was added to the attribute table.

Tags: aerial-photography, digital-ortho-quarter-quad, digital-ortho-rectified-image, digital-orthophoto-quarter-quad, doq, doqq, mabe, naip, nps-wide, ortho-rectification, quads-of-interest, quarter-quadrangle-centered, quarter-quads-of-interest, service-wide
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: YELL

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, 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, yell, yellowstone-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior