AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Raw radio telemetry receiver data used to assess passage efficiency of Landlocked Atlantic salmon over the Willsboro cascades in the Boquet River, NY in 2022

Collection of text files containing raw detection tabular data generated from Lotek SRX800 radio telemetry receivers positioned in the Boquet River, NY to assess landlocked Atlantic salmon passage efficiency over the Willsboro cascades in the fall of 2022. Each text file corresponds to a receiver download event. Text files beginning with "TCS1" were generated from the receiver that was positioned at the lower extent of the Willsboro cascades while files with title's beginning with "TCS2" were generated from the radio telemetry receiver positioned at the upper extent of the cascades. Receivers were programmed to log and record detections on radio frequency 164.340 with a gain setting of 70.  

Each row within the tabular data constitutes information pertaining to a single detection of a radio transmission detected and recorded by the radio telemetry receiver. Logged transmissions were then recorded to the receiver's SD card which was manually downloaded by staff between one and three times per week. Receivers were deployed and active between September 21st and December 14th in 2022. Accompanying files include .btr and .dta files that contain receiver programming information. For additional details on receiver set up, see the associated standard operating procedure for SRX800. See associated .csv file containing list of transmitters implanted within landlocked Atlantic salmon.

Note that a test tag programmed to frequency 164.340 code 25 was used for testing on September 28, 2022. Additionally, receiver TCS2 was no recording data from 2022-10-05 at 13:33:47 GMT through 2022-10-12 14:54:36 GMT due to storage being full.

Tags: atlantic-salmon, general-management-natural-resources-management-fisheries-management, landlocked-atlantic-salmon, lotek, radio-telemetry, salmo-salar
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation Map for the Hakalau Forest Unit of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge on the Island of Hawai‘i

This data layer identifies the Hakalau Forest Unit mapping boundary for a vegetation map of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge Hakalau Forest Unit and adjacent lands.

Tags: general-biology-species-plants, general-management-inventory, hakalau-forest-national-wildlife-refuge, hawaii, vegetation, vegetation-map
Organization: Department of the Interior
Camas NWR: Invasive Plant Inventory - Grid-based: Survey Grid (50 x 50 m) for Conducting Field-based Invasive Plant Surveys

This dataset was created to facilitate field-based invasive plant surveys. Each grid-cell constitutes a possible survey area within which a field surveyor documents the presence/absence of a suite of target species. The grid layer is displayed on a mobile device (smartphone or tablet) allowing the surveyor to navigate to the grid cell and establishes the geospatial boundaries of each survey.

Tags: biota, environment, general-biology-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-plants, general-management-inventory, idaho, invasive-species, inventory, survey, vascular-plants
Organization: Department of the Interior
FWS National Special Designation Areas

This data layer depicts the Special Designations that have been placed upon the lands and waters administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in North America, U.S. Trust Territories and Possessions. These special areas, such as national monuments, are primarily designated by the U.S. Congress. The primary source for this information is the USFWS Realty program.

Tags: boundaries, national-fish-hatchery, national-historic-landmark, national-marine-monument, national-monument, national-seashore, national-wildlife-refuge, natural-area, planningcadastre, united-states, waterfowl-production-area, wetland-management-district, wilderness-ar
Organization: Department of the Interior
Camas NWR Invasive Plant Inventory - Grid-based: Survey123 Results on Weed Species Occurrences (Archived Version)

This geospatial dataset consists of points corresponding to the center of 50 x 50 m grid cells which were surveyed for a finite set of target invasive plant species on Camas National Wildlife Refuge. Each point corresponds to a single Survey123 form which was used to record the outcomes for a grid cell.  Attributes include the grid cell id, surveyor's name, the date and time the survey was conducted and species-level survey results. For each of the target species data indicate whether that species was present or not present. If a weed species is observed within a grid cell, it is present, it is assigned to one of four abundance categories: Single individual, Scattered plants, Scattered dense patches, or Dense monoculture.

Tags: biota, environment, general-biology-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-plants, general-management-inventory, idaho, invasive-species, inventory, survey, vascular-plants
Organization: Department of the Interior
R1: Oregon Coast: 2003 Aerial Photography of Nesting Seabird Colony Islands for Monitoring Purposes - Selected (Colony) Images Used For Counting, Geospatial Representation

Photography from helicopter taken for the purposes of resource monitoring, specifically seabird colony status and distribution. Oregon Coast aerial and boat based photography taken in June, 2003 on 35mm slide film.  Primarily captured from a helicopter roughly 800-900' in altitude, Right Front Photographer - Roy W. Lowe, USFWS, Right Rear Photographer - David S. Pitkin, USFWS 

These slides have been scanned at 1200 - 5000 DPI and have about 1-foot pixel resolution. Please note that these photos have not been georeferenced. The photos have not been orthorectified and therefore there will be photo anomalies and mis-matches between adjoining photos. Caution should be exercised if attempting to use this imagery to conduct measurements.

This geospatial representation includes the best quality images for each nesting seabird colony. The metadata includes grades for image quality.

Tags: aerial-photograph, digital-scan, ff01rorg00-002, ff01rtar00-002, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, primr, seabird-colony, slide-film
Organization: Department of the Interior
FWS National Realty Approved Acquisition Boundaries

This data layer depicts the external boundaries of areas approved for acquisition of lands and waters by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in North America, U.S. Trust Territories and Possessions from willing sellers.  This boundary does not represent the lands and waters administered by the USFWS.  That data is found in the FWS National Realty Tracts GIS layer. The primary source for this information is the USFWS Realty program.

Tags: boundaries, national-fish-hatchery, national-wildlife-refuge, planningcadastre, united-states, waterfowl-production-area, wetland-management-district
Organization: Department of the Interior
R1: Oregon Coast: 2003 Aerial Photography of Nesting Seabird Colony Islands for Monitoring Purposes - Stitched (Colony) Images Used to Manual Count Nesting Seabirds, Geospatial Representation

Photography from helicopter taken for the purposes of resource monitoring, specifically seabird colony status and distribution. Oregon Coast aerial and boat based photography taken in June, 2003 on 35mm slide film.  Primarily captured from a helicopter roughly 800-900' in altitude, Right Front Photographer - Roy W. Lowe, USFWS, Right Rear Photographer - David S. Pitkin, USFWS 

These slides have been scanned at 1200 - 5000 DPI and have about 1-foot pixel resolution. Please note that these photos have not been georeferenced. The photos have not been orthorectified and therefore there will be photo anomalies and mis-matches between adjoining photos. Caution should be exercised if attempting to use this imagery to conduct measurements.

This geospatial representation includes the best quality images for each nesting seabird colony. The metadata includes grades for image quality.

Tags: aerial-photograph, digital-scan, ff01rorg00-002, ff01rtar00-002, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, primr, seabird-colony, slide-film
Organization: Department of the Interior
R1: Oregon Coast: 2006 Aerial Photography of Nesting Seabird Colony Islands for Monitoring Purposes - Stitched (Colony) Images Used to Manual Count Nesting Seabirds, Geospatial Representation

Photography from helicopter taken for the purposes of resource monitoring, specifically seabird colony status and distribution. Oregon Coast aerial and boat based photography taken in June, 2006 on 35mm slide film.  Primarily captured from a helicopter roughly 800-900' in altitude, Right Front Photographer - David Pitkin, USFWS, Right Rear Photographer - David Ledig, USFWS 

These slides have been scanned at 1200 - 5000 DPI and have about 1-foot pixel resolution. Please note that these photos have not been georeferenced. The photos have not been orthorectified and therefore there will be photo anomalies and mis-matches between adjoining photos. Caution should be exercised if attempting to use this imagery to conduct measurements.

This geospatial representation includes the best quality images for each nesting seabird colony. The metadata includes grades for image quality.

Tags: aerial-photograph, digital-scan, ff01rorg00-002, ff01rtar00-002, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, image-mosaic, primr, seabird-colony, slide-film
Organization: Department of the Interior
Predicted densities of male Golden-cheeked Warblers (Setophaga chrysoparia), 2012, Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, USFWS, Region 2

This is a raster file with predicted densities of male golden-cheeked warblers as depicted in Figure 6 of Sesnie et al. (2016). The resolution is 10x10m pixels. The predicted densities are based on relationships with canopy cover, proportion of canopy composed of juniper, and annual solar radiation.

Tags: dendroica-chrysoparia, density-models, distance-sampling, endangered-species, general-biology-at-risk-biota-te-species, general-biology-communities-and-ecosystems-woodland, general-biology-species-birds, general-management-habitat-management-habitat-models, general-management-natural-resources-management-forest-management, general-management-natural-resources-management-wildlife-management, golden-cheeked-warbler, golden-cheeked-wood-warbler, lidar, naip, point-count-surveys, remote-sensing, setophaga-chrysoparia
Organization: Department of the Interior
R1: Oregon Coast: 2006 Aerial Photography of Nesting Seabird Colony Islands for Monitoring Purposes - Selected (Colony) Images Used For Counting, Geospatial Representation

Photography from helicopter taken for the purposes of resource monitoring, specifically seabird colony status and distribution. Oregon Coast aerial and boat based photography taken in June, 2006 on 35mm slide film.  Primarily captured from a helicopter roughly 800-900' in altitude, Right Front Photographer - David Pitkin, USFWS, Right Rear Photographer - David Ledig, USFWS 

These slides have been scanned at 1200 - 5000 DPI and have about 1-foot pixel resolution. Please note that these photos have not been georeferenced. The photos have not been orthorectified and therefore there will be photo anomalies and mis-matches between adjoining photos. Caution should be exercised if attempting to use this imagery to conduct measurements.

This geospatial representation includes the best quality images for each nesting seabird colony. The metadata includes grades for image quality.

Tags: aerial-photograph, digital-scan, ff01rorg00-002, ff01rtar00-002, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, primr, seabird-colony, slide-film
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation Map of Desert National Wildlife Refuge 2013

This feature class or layer consists of polygon layers that delineate 29 vegetation communities which represent National Vegetation Classification Standard Groups. The map covers the public part of Desert National Wildlife Refuge, which is about 305,800 hectares. The classified map can be used to assist with land management decisions that affect native plants and animals on the Refuge. The feature layers are intended to be updated. This version has one record for each Group. Each record has many geographically separated parts which is known as 'multipart.'

Tags: clark-county, environment, general-biology-species-plants, ground-cover, land-cover, landcover, lincoln-county, national-vegetation-classification-standard-groups, nevada, primary-jurisdiction, public
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nestucca Bay NWR: Tidal Marsh Restoration and Reference Sites: Baseline Plant Community (Vegetation) Monitoring and Mapping - Geospatial Data, 2001

This reference contains geospatial datasets (shapefiles) for the Nestucca Bay NWR: Tidal Marsh Restoration and Reference Sites: Baseline Plant Community Monitoring and Mapping inventory performed by Green Point Consulting in 2001.
During summer 2001, Green Point Consulting (GPC) conducted baseline monitoring and computerized (GIS) mapping of emergent wetland plant communities at USFWS tidal marsh restoration sites and matched reference sites in the Siletz and Nestucca estuaries. The monitoring work used a robust, quantitative protocol which allows comparison of results to tidal marsh monitoring activities elsewhere on the west coast. Plant community composition was measured, and results were used to map plant communities throughout the restoration and reference sites.
The goals of the project were to assist USFWS in restoration planning, implementation, evaluation, and adaptive management; and to advance scientific understanding of west coast estuaries. Plant community classification and mapping also provides the basis for stratification of further sampling in future monitoring projects. This project's vegetation analysis and mapping modifies and adds detail to the estuary-wide mapping of Siletz tidal marsh completed by GPC for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in 2001. Products include GIS layers of plant communities and sampling locations; paper maps of plant communities; graphic displays of plant community composition; photodocumentation of transects; spreadsheets of quantitative data collected and analysis of that data; and this narrative report. This project was not designed to provide data for regulatory requirements (such as wetland fill-removal permits), but it's results may be useful as supplementary data in a regulatory context.

Tags: baseline-monitoring, emergent-wetland, ff01rnes00-048, general-biology-species-plants, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, gis, mapping, plant-community-composition
Organization: Department of the Interior
Deer Flat NWR Invasive Plant Inventory - Grid-based: Survey123 Results on Weed Species Occurrences (Archived Version)

This geospatial dataset consists of points corresponding to the center of 50 x 50 m grid cells which were surveyed for a finite set of target invasive plant species on Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge. Each point corresponds to a single Survey123 form which was used to record the outcomes for a grid cell.  Attributes include the grid cell id, surveyor's name, the date and time the survey was conducted and species-level survey results. For each of the target species data indicate whether that species was present or not present. If a weed species is observed within a grid cell, it is present, it is assigned to one of four abundance categories: Single individual, Scattered plants, Scattered dense patches, or Dense monoculture.

Tags: biota, environment, general-biology-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-plants, general-management-inventory, idaho, invasive-species, inventory, survey, vascular-plants
Organization: Department of the Interior
2016-2020 Forest Inventory Phase II data for the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge-Winona District

Forest Inventory Phase II GIS data for the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge-Winona District. Data is based off U.S. Army of Corps Engineers' MVP-ES Forest Inventory Phase II Protocol. Data covers 2016-2020 field seasons. All data have been further cleaned and edited. This is the most up-to-date version. See attached protocol for data field definitions.

Tags: arcgis, army-corps-engineers, collector, forest-inventory, general-biology-communities-and-ecosystems-forest, general-biology-communities-and-ecosystems-woodland, general-biology-infestations-and-disease-insect-pests, general-biology-infestations-and-disease-plant-diseases, general-biology-species-plants, general-management-natural-resources-management-forest-management, general-management-natural-resources-management-wildlife-management, tracheophyta, tracheophytes, vascular-plants
Organization: Department of the Interior
Anchorage, Alaska Municipality Elodea Infestation Extent Polygons

This polygon layer contains extents of Elodea infestations identified within the Anchorage, Alaska municipality. Polygons were created in the field using the ESRI's Field Map application. Sampling protocol follows "Fulkerson, J. (2023). Standard Operating Procedure for Elodea Detection in Alaska Lakes. Alaska Center for Conservation Science". Once Elodea were detected at a given site, the crew will delineate the extent of the Elodea infestation, either visually or using rake throws and draw a polygon in the Field Map application delineating the extent of a given infestation.

Tags: ais, aquatic-invasive-species, early-detection-and-monitoring, elodea, general-biology-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-plants, general-management-natural-resources-management-wildlife-management, infestation, invasive-species, water-weed, waterweed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Siletz Estuary Plant Community (Vegetation) Mapping - Geospatial Data, 2001

This study mapped twelve wetland plant communities (or “alliances”) and 59 subcommunities (or “community elements”) in 252 ha (623 A) of tidal and formerly tidal wetlands within the Siletz estuary. The target shapefile polygon size for the GIS mapping project was 0.8 to 2 ha (1 to 5 A). Within the study area, plant communities (as generally defined by estuarine ecologists) tended to occupy larger areas (over 2 ha). Therefore, each polygon was assigned both to a plant community, and to a smaller, more closely defined "subcommunity" that was characterized by a particular group of dominant plant species. The average size of a polygon (subcommunity) on the final map was about 1.5 ha (3.7 A), but about a third of the polygons were under 0.8 ha (2 A) in size.
When using the plant community maps provided in this report, it is important to remember that the community descriptions are based on plant community composition as viewed from onsite, within the community. The visual impression of a plant community may be quite different from offsite (for example, from a nearby road) (see Visually
dominant species below). Onsite investigation of each plant community is recommended when reviewing plant communities described in this report or when conducting more detailed analyses.
The mapping provided in this report is intended for two main uses: preliminary planning (for instance, as an aid to restoration project planning); and environmental stratification for detailed quantitative sampling (see Stratification recommendations below). The mapping provided is not appropriate for regulatory purposes or for quantitative analysis
of vegetation change

Tags: alliance, association, estuary, ff01rslz00-004, general-biology-species-plants, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, plant-community, siletz-river-estuary, tidal-wetland, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Final Land Cover Map raster - Land Cover Mapping, North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, 2019

ABR Inc.—Environmental Research and Services (ABR) produced a land cover map of the north slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) using a classification of satellite imagery that was informed by existing, ancillary field data; new field data collected in 2019; and other relevant spatial data products. The map provides land cover and vegetation information useful for making resource management decisions, including the identification of wildlife habitat types and their distribution and extent. We designed the classification to dovetail with the U.S. National Vegetation Classification (USNVC 2019) and with other land cover maps produced recently for Alaska’s North Slope and Brooks Range regions.

Tags: anwr, arctic-coastal-plain, classification, ecological-land-survey, habitat, land-cover, mapping, north-slope, remote-sensing, soil-analysis, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Whooping Crane Migration through North Dakota and South Dakota

The whooping crane is a federally endangered species that the bulk of the world population winters at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge down in Texas and typically nests in the Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada. The birds normally migrate through North Dakota and South Dakota both in the spring and the fall. This layer will provide probability estimates for important stopover locations that provide foraging areas in close proximity to roosting areas in North Dakota and South Dakota.

Tags: general-biology-at-risk-biota-te-species, general-biology-species-birds, general-landscapes-landscape-ecology, grus-americana, habitat-use, migration, north-dakota, south-dakota, whooping-crane
Organization: Department of the Interior
Segmentation geospatial data - Land Cover Mapping, North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, 2019

"We applied Simple Non-Iterative Clustering (SNIC) (Achanta and Susstrunk 2017) to develop image segments or super-pixels from the WorldView mosaic (Figure 4). Input bands for the segmentation were Blue, Green, Red, and NIR reflectance (range ~0–1.0), and NDVI (range -1–1.0). Parameters for SNIC were compactness=0.0001, connectivity=4, neighborhoodSize=128, and size=6. While the original input imagery was 2 m resolution, we performed the segmentation on a 6 m resolution version of the input imagery generated by averaging. Thus, the initial seeds were spaced about 36 m apart (size times scale). We used 6 m resolution for the segmentation both to reduce computational demands and because it was a good resolution to capture meaningful tundra vegetation patches while minimizing the delineation of small features such as troughs in patterned ground that are better represented in a vegetation mosaic. 

We performed 2 rounds of merging adjacent segments together, if they met a tight threshold of spectral similarity. If the mean value of reflectance and NDVI was within 0.005 in all five bands (50 for scaled values), adjacent segments were merged. The second round allowed for merged segments created in the first round to be merged with neighbors, if the similarity criteria were met.

Finally, we renumbered the segments so that each contiguous patch was assigned a unique code. The segmentation algorithm relies on randomly generated 64bit integers to initially define unique values. The additional renumbering step ensured that we did not end up with spatially separated segments with the same code."

Tags: anwr, arctic-coastal-plain, classification, ecological-land-survey, habitat, land-cover, mapping, north-slope, remote-sensing, soil-analysis, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Physiography raster - Land Cover Mapping, North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, 2019

Physiography was derived from an attribute field in the ecological subsection mapping. The original physiography linework was adjusted to match the image segmentation edges. Segments in more than one physiography class were assigned to the physiography class with the largest area.

Tags: anwr, arctic-coastal-plain, classification, ecological-land-survey, habitat, land-cover, mapping, north-slope, remote-sensing, soil-analysis, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior