AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Virgin Islands 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.

In 2009, the National Park Service (NPS) Vegetation Mapping Inventory funded the NPS South Florida Caribbean Network (SFCN) to evaluate the accuracy of a vegetation map produced by the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) Eastern Caribbean Center, Conservation Data Center for Virgin Island National Park (VIIS). The UVI vegetation map of VIIS was completed in 2001 and was based on aerial imagery from 1994. VIIS park staff felt that the UVI vegetation map was relatively accurate, but recognized that no formal accuracy assessment of the product had occurred at the time of its creation. Both the UVI and SFCN vegetation maps of VIIS relied on aerial imagery and photo-interpreters to delineate vegetation communities. However, the SFCN vegetation map had the benefit of having LiDAR data available; a technology and data source not readily available when the UVI vegetation map was produced. In addition, the SFCN vegetation map benefited from technological advances in aerial image acquisition that significantly improved the quality and resolution of imagery used; GPS that allowed precise spatial location determination; and GIS science that permitted the viewing, layering, and manipulation of multiple data sources simultaneously. The SFCN vegetation map also benefitted from the use of digital orthophotographs that take into account the surface elevation, topography, of the earth and camera tilt. The UVI vegetation map has an estimated map accuracy of 45.9% with a lower 90th Percentile Confidence Interval of 38.5% while the SFCN vegetation map accuracy is estimated at 87.9% with a lower 90th Percentile Confidence Interval of 82.0%. The SFCN vegetation map has approximately 2.1 times more detail, in the form of individual patches, than the UVI vegetation map does, 1,430 vs 686 patches, respectively. Mean patch size and maximum patch size are smaller in the SFCN vegetation map than in the UVI vegetation map. This results in the SFCN vegetation map being less homogeneous than the UVI map even though the total number of community types mapped are nearly identical, 27 vs 29.

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: LARO

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, lake-roosevelt-national-recreation-area, laro, 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 Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site.  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
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: ARPO

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, arkansas-post-national-memorial, arpo, 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
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of  American Memorial Park

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

To produce the spatial database and map layer, 0.6-meter, 4-band Quickbird satellite imagery from 2006 was provided by PACN. By comparing the signatures on the imagery to field and ground data 27 map classes (16 vegetated, three barren, and eight land-use / land-cover) were developed and directly crosswalked or matched to their corresponding NVC plant associations. The interpreted and remotely sensed data were converted to Geographic Information System (GIS) databases and maps were printed, field tested, reviewed, and revised. The final map layer was accessed for thematic accuracy by overlaying 48 independent accuracy assessment points.

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 Appomattox Court House 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.

A vegetation map of Appomattox Court House National Historical Park was created following the USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program protocols. Vegetation map classes were crosswalked to the Natural Communities of Virginia and to the USNVC in order to provide a regional and global context for the park’s vegetation. All vegetation polygons on the map were surveyed either as part of the initial mapping effort or during accuracy assessment and their classification verified on the ground. One hundred and eighty-seven randomly selected accuracy assessment sampling points were collected throughout the park and used to assess the thematic accuracy of the map.

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: DEVA

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, death-valley-national-park, designated-uses, deva, 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 Arches 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 Arches National Park.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

Thirty-one (30 polygon and 1 point) natural and semi-natural vegetation map classes were developed for the ARCH mapping project, represented by 6,709 map polygons. Twelve land use map classes describe 193 other polygons within the mapping area. An additional 222 polygons represent exposures of two unvegetated geologic formations. Average polygon size across all map classes is 7.3 ha (18.0 acres). Natural and semi-natural vegetation classes cover 52,521 ha (124,171 acres / 95.6% of the project area). Map classes representing unvegetated bedrock total 1,295 ha (3,200 acres / 2.5% of the project area). Land use/land cover polygons, including roads, commercial developments, mining facilities and NPS facilities total 1,010 ha (2,497 acres / 1.9% of the project area). The most frequent vegetation mapping unit is Blackbrush Shrublands (Map Class 10 / S-BLAC) with 1,457 polygons covering 9,073 ha (22,407 acres) or 17% of the project 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: EUON

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, eugene-oneill-national-historic-site, euon, 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
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: FOPO

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, fopo, fort-point-national-historic-site, 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 Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

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 geodatabase containing various feature class layers and tables show the locations of vegetation types and general land cover (vegetation map), vegetation plot samples, AA sites, project boundary extent, and aerial photographic centers. The feature class layer for the APIS vegetation map provides 4,862 polygons of detailed attribute data covering 28,971.9 ha, with an average polygon size of 6.0 ha. Of the area mapped, 4,732 polygons (97.4%) represent natural/semi-natural types in the NVCS, encompassing 17,600.9 ha (60.8%) of the total map extent.

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: CABR

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, cabr, cabrillo-national-monument, 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
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Aztec Ruins 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.

To produce the digital map, we used existing 0.3-m-pixel imagery (color, color infrared, and panchromatic) acquired in 2003. This imagery did not cover the entire project area completely; therefore, we filled in the missing area with a 1998 U.S. Geological Survey 1-m-pixel, digital orthophoto quadrangle map. These images, in addition to ground-truthing, were used to interpret patterns of vegetation and land use. All of the interpreted and remotely sensed data were converted to geodatabases using ARCGIS© software. Draft maps were printed, fi eld-verified, reviewed, and revised as necessary. Due to the small size of AZRU, each point collected was revisited, resulting in a 100%-accuracy assessment of the evaluated 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: CHIS

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, channel-islands-national-park, chis, 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
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Lowland Bird Inventory Dataset

This data describes the bird community in the lowland region of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Birds were surveyed using the line transect method, which includes measuring species, distance to bird, angle to bird, angle to trail, coordinates of beginning and end of trail and of each observation.

Tags: baseline-inventory, biota, bird, birds-ornithology, havo, hawaii-island, hawaii-volcanoes-national-park, inventory-monitoring, volcano, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail

This is a vector line ESRI Shapefile showing the approximate designated route of the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail.

Tags: ecological-framework-human-use-cultural-landscapes-cultural-landscapes, ecological-framework-human-use-visitor-and-recreation-use-visitor-use, el-camino-real-de-los-tejas-national-historic-trail, elte-nht, louisiana, national-historic-trail, national-park-service, national-trail-system, national-trails-intermountain-region, nht, north-america, nps, ntir, nts, texas
Organization: Department of the Interior