AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Ground control point locations for Fall Creek Lake, Oregon, acquired during annual drawdown to streambed November 2016

The Middle Fork Willamette River basin encompasses 3,548 square kilometers of western Oregon and drains to the mainstem Willamette River. Fall Creek basin encompasses 653 square kilometers and drains to the Middle Fork Willamette River. In cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Geological Survey evaluated geomorphic responses of downstream river corridors to annual drawdowns to streambed at Fall Creek Lake. This study of geomorphic change is focused on the major alluvial channel segments downstream of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dams on Fall Creek and the Middle Fork Willamette River, as well as the 736 hectare Fall Creek Lake. Reservoir erosion during streambed drawdown results in sediment delivery to downstream reaches. To better understand patterns and processes of reservoir erosion related to downstream geomorphic responses, detailed reservoir deposit mapping and change analyses are completed.
To support these analyses, aerial photographs were collected via unmanned aerial systems (UAS) on November 8 and November 9, 2016, and via Cessna aircraft (or manned aerial system; MAS) on November 10, 2016, to create 3-dimensional xyz point clouds, digital elevation models (DEMs), and orthophotographs of the Fall Creek Lake bottom during full reservoir drawdown using structure-from-motion (SfM) techniques. The November 8 model resulted in a ground resolution of 3.28 centimeters per pixel, average point density of 58.2 points per square meter, and DEM resolution of 13.1 centimeters per cell. The November 9 model resulted in a ground resolution on 2.86 centimeters per pixel, average point density of 76.6 points per square meter, and DEM resolution of 11.4 centimeters per cell. The model for the manned aerial system (MAS) flight on November 10 had a slightly lower ground resolution at 4.18 centimeters per pixel (for multiple altitudes), average point density of 35.8 points per square meter, and output DEM resolution of 16.7 centimeters per cell. Cell sizes were automatically generated by the software.
This documentation describes a csv file containing ground control point locations used to register SfM datasets of the streambed drawdown at Fall Creek Lake, Oregon, November 2016. This dataset is part of a broader publication including aerial photographs, 3-dimensional xyz point clouds, DEMs, orthophotographs, model processing reports, ground control points, and dataset footprints for November 8-10, 2016.

Tags: aerial-images, aerial-photography, dam, drawdown, erosion, fall-creek, fall-creek-lake, fluvial-geomorphology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, jasper-oregon, lane-county, laz, middle-fork-willamette-river, oregon, orthoimagery, orthophotograph, photogrammetry, reservoir, sediment-transport, sfm, structure-from-motion, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usgs-5dfd1681e4b0b207aa007ba7, winberry-creek
Organization: Department of the Interior
Management of remnant tallgrass prairie by grazing or fire in western Minnesota, 2016-2017

We studied the impacts of using cattle grazing or prescribed fire to manage remnant prairies on plant communities and soil characteristics in the prairie parkland province of western Minnesota. These datasets consist of nested frequency plot plant survey data, study site and soil characteristics, and management information taken from 73 sites owned and managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, The Nature Conservancy and private land owners.  Because management effects can take many years to become evident, we evaluated response variables on remnant prairies that had been subject to either fire or grazing for at least 10 years prior to our surveys, between 2005-2015.

Tags: biota, carbon-sequestration, cattle-grazing, coefficient-of-conservatism, grassland-ecosystems, grassland-management, nitrogen-cycling, prescribed-fires, species-richness, tallgrass-prairies, usgs-5e0fbfe5e4b0b207aa16364f
Organization: Department of the Interior
National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2011 Land Cover Conterminous United States

The National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD2011) USFS percent tree canopy product was produced through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium (www.mrlc.gov). The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of federal agencies, consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, NASA, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. One of the primary goals of the project was to generate current, consistent, and seamless national land cover, percent tree canopy, and percent impervious cover at medium spatial resolution. This product is the cartographic version of the NLCD2011 percent tree canopy cover dataset for CONUS at medium spatial resolution (30 m). It was produced by the USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC). Tree canopy values range from 0 to 100 percent. The analytic tree canopy layer was produced using a Random Forests™ regression algorithm. The cartographic product is a filtered version of the regression algorithm output.

Tags: continuous, digital-spatial-data, gis, imagerybasemapsearthcover, percent-tree-canopy, remote-sensing, tree-canopy-cover, u-s, u-s-a, u-s-forest-service, united-states, united-states-of-america, us, usa, usfs, usgs-5dfc2280e4b0b207a9fe8235
Organization: Department of the Interior
Synthetic Organic Compounds in Water in Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Las Vegas, Nevada

This dataset presents the results of passive water sampling conducted at 2 sites in 2013 and 3 sites in 2014 in Lake Mead National Recreational Area. Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Samplers (POCIS) and Semipermeable Membrane Devices (SPMDs) were deployed in Las Vegas Bay and Overton Arm in 2013 and Las Vegas Bay, Boulder Basin, and Overton Arm in 2014. The samplers were analyzed for concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorines (DDT-type compounds and their degradates), polybrominated biphenyl ethers (PBDEs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), waste indicators (WW), and yeast estrogen screen (YES) by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at the Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC) in Columbia, Missouri. Data are presented in a spreadsheet with 5 worksheets containing site information and analyte results.

Tags: aquatic-biology, aquatic-ecosystems, benthic-ecosystems, benthic-reliance, biota, boulder-basin, carbon-13, carbon-isotope-analysis, colorado-river, dissolved-organic-compounds, endocrine-disrupting-compounds, endocrinology, environment, field-sampling, fish, food-web, fragrances, gas-chromatography, inlandwaters, invasive-species, invertebrates, isotopes, isotopic-analysis, lake-mead, lake-mead-national-recreational-area, las-vegas, las-vegas-bay, light-stable-isotope-analysis, mass-spectroscopy, mollusks, nitrogen-15, organochlorines, overton-arm, periphyton, pesticides, plankton, polybrominated-biphenyl-ethers-pbdes, polychlorinated-biphenyls-pcbs, polycyclic-aromatic-hydrocarbons-pahs, stable-isotopes, surface-water-quality, synthetic-organic-compounds, trophic-levels, usgs-5dfc0a2ce4b0b207a9fe8208, waste-indicators, wastewater-discharge, yeast-estrogen-screen
Organization: Department of the Interior
Synthetic Organic Compounds in Biota in Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Las Vegas, Nevada

This dataset presents the results of analysis of aquatic biota tissue samples, collected at 2 sites (Las Vegas Bay and Overton Arm) in 2013 and 2 sites (Las Vegas Bay, Boulder Basin, and Overton Arm) in 2014 in Lake Mead National Recreational Area. The tissue samples were analyzed for concentrations of more than 250 compounds and congeners of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (DDT and its degradates), wastewater chemicals, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at the Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC) in Columbia, Missouri. Analysis methods include low-resolution, high-resolution, and full spectrum mass spectrometry and high-resolution gas chromatography. Data are presented in a spreadsheet with 15 worksheets containing analyte results and quality control information and a summary table suitable for principal component analysis (PCA).

Tags: aquatic-biology, aquatic-ecosystems, benthic-ecosystems, benthic-reliance, biota, boulder-basin, carbon-13, carbon-isotope-analysis, colorado-river, dissolved-organic-compounds, endocrine-disrupting-compounds, endocrinology, environment, field-sampling, fish, food-web, fragrances, gas-chromatography, inlandwaters, invasive-species, invertebrates, isotopes, isotopic-analysis, lake-mead, lake-mead-national-recreational-area, las-vegas, las-vegas-bay, light-stable-isotope-analysis, mass-spectroscopy, mollusks, nitrogen-15, organochlorines, overton-arm, periphyton, pesticides, plankton, polybrominated-biphenyl-ethers-pbdes, polychlorinated-biphenyls-pcbs, polycyclic-aromatic-hydrocarbons-pahs, stable-isotopes, surface-water-quality, synthetic-organic-compounds, trophic-levels, usgs-5dfc095ae4b0b207a9fe8202, waste-indicators, wastewater-discharge, yeast-estrogen-screen
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thickness of the combined Lower Hell Creek and Fox Hills aquifers in the Powder River structural basin

These data represent the thickness, in feet, of the combined Lower Hell Creek and Fox Hills aquifers 
in the Powder River basin. The data are presented as ASCII text files that can be converted to 
continuous raster format.

Tags: canada, environment, fox-hills-aquifer, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-availability, inlandwaters, lower-hell-creek-aquifer, powder-river, powder-river-basin, united-states, usgs-5e1fded6-9dc0-48c0-bc5e-87f3b5a4b882, williston-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stable Isotopes in Biota in Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Las Vegas, Nevada

This dataset presents the results of analysis of aquatic biota tissue samples, collected over multiple sampling events from in from 2007 to 2014 at three sites (Las Vegas Bay, Overton Arm, and Boulder Basin) in Lake Mead National Recreational Area. The tissue samples were analyzed for concentrations of Carbon 13 and Nitrogen 15 isotopes by the University of California, Davis in Davis, California. Data are presented in 1 spreadsheet worksheet that is organized by year, location, and taxa. General trophic level (Vander Zanden and Rasmussen, 1999) and calculations of benthic reliance (Umek and others, 2010) also are included. Combined data from sampling events in 2007 and 2008 previously were published in Umek and others, 2010. Common species names are used in the spreadsheet and scientific names can be found in the metadata.

Tags: aquatic-biology, aquatic-ecosystems, benthic-ecosystems, benthic-reliance, biota, boulder-basin, carbon-13, carbon-isotope-analysis, colorado-river, dissolved-organic-compounds, endocrine-disrupting-compounds, endocrinology, environment, field-sampling, fish, food-web, fragrances, gas-chromatography, inlandwaters, invasive-species, invertebrates, isotopes, isotopic-analysis, lake-mead, lake-mead-national-recreational-area, las-vegas, las-vegas-bay, light-stable-isotope-analysis, mass-spectroscopy, mollusks, nitrogen-15, organochlorines, overton-arm, periphyton, pesticides, plankton, polybrominated-biphenyl-ethers-pbdes, polychlorinated-biphenyls-pcbs, polycyclic-aromatic-hydrocarbons-pahs, stable-isotopes, surface-water-quality, synthetic-organic-compounds, trophic-levels, usgs-5dfc08b0e4b0b207a9fe81fd, waste-indicators, wastewater-discharge, yeast-estrogen-screen
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetric data for Whiskeytown Lake, May 2019

These metadata describe bathymetric data collected during a May 2019 SWATHPlus survey of Whiskeytown Lake, California. Data were collected and processed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) during fieldwork activity number 2018-686-FA. The bathymetric data are provided as a GeoTIFF image.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, field-observation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, interferometric-sonar, lake-bed, lakebed-characteristics, marine-geophysics, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, seafloor-topography, state-of-california, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5dfbeea5e4b0cc5243395ff8, whiskeytown-lake, whiskeytown-shasta-trinity-national-recreation-area
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetric data for Whiskeytown Lake, December 2018

These metadata describe bathymetric data collected during a December 2018 SWATHPlus survey of Whiskeytown Lake, California. Data were collected and processed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) during fieldwork activity number 2018-686-FA. The bathymetric data are provided as a GeoTIFF image.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, field-observation, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, interferometric-sonar, lake-bed, lakebed-characteristics, marine-geophysics, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, seafloor-topography, state-of-california, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5dfbd23fe4b0cc5243395f60, whiskeytown-lake, whiskeytown-shasta-trinity-national-recreation-area
Organization: Department of the Interior
National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2001 Land Cover Conterminous United States (ver. 2.0, July 2024)

The National Land Cover Database 2001 land cover layer for mapping zones 01-66 was produced through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium.  The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of federal agencies (www.mrlc.gov), consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).  One of the primary goals of the project is to generate a current, consistent, seamless, and accurate National Land cover Database (NLCD) circa 2001 for the United States at medium spatial resolution.  For a detailed definition and discussion on MRLC and the NLCD 2001 products, refer to Homer et al. (2004) and http://www.mrlc.gov/mrlc2k.asp.
The NLCD 2001 is created by partitioning the U.S. into mapping zones.  A total of 66 mapping zones were delineated within the conterminous U.S. based on ecoregion and geographical characteristics, edge matching features and the size requirement of Landsat mosaics.  An example is mapping zone 01 which encompasses whole or portions of several states, including the state of Washington.  Questions about the NLCD mapping zones can be directed to the NLCD 2001 land cover mapping team at the USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD (605) 594-6151 or mrlc@usgs.gov.

Tags: base-maps, coastal-zone, digital-spatial-data, earth-cover, gis, imagery, land-cover, u-s, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, us, us-west-coast, usgs, usgs-5dfbcddfe4b0ff479b8c45a8, wa, washington, zone-01
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.4 transects with long-term linear regression rate calculations for the sheltered north coast of Alaska, from Icy Cape to Cape Prince of Wales

This dataset consists of long-term (less than 68 years) shoreline change rates for the sheltered north coast of Alaska from Icy Cape to Cape Prince of Wales. Rate calculations were computed within a GIS using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.4, an ArcGIS extension developed by the U.S. Geological Survey. Rates of shoreline change were calculated using a linear regression rate-of-change (lrr) method based on available shoreline data between 1948 and 2016. A reference baseline was used as the originating point for the orthogonal transects cast by the DSAS software. The transects intersect each shoreline establishing measurement points, which are then used to calculate rates of change.

Tags: arctic, bering-land-bridge-national-preserve, cape-espenberg, cape-krusenstern-national-monument, cape-lisburne, cape-prince-of-wales, cape-thompson, chukchi-sea, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, deering, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, distributions, dsas, environment, geoscientificinformation, icy-cape, kivalina, kotzebue-sound, north-slope, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-chemical-features, point-hope, point-lay, red-dog-dock, shishhmaref, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change, shoreline-erosion, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5dfb2b3fe4b0b5e61c05545b, wales
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.4 transects with short-term linear regression rate calculations for the exposed north coast of Alaska, from Icy Cape to Cape Prince of Wales

This dataset consists of short-term (less than 37 years) shoreline change rates for the north coast of Alaska from Icy Cape to Cape Prince of Wales. Rate calculations were computed within a GIS using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.4, an ArcGIS extension developed by the U.S. Geological Survey. Rates of shoreline change were calculated using a linear regression rate-of-change (lrr) method based on available shoreline data between 1980s and 2016. A reference baseline was used as the originating point for the orthogonal transects cast by the DSAS software. The transects intersect each shoreline establishing measurement points, which are then used to calculate rates of change.

Tags: arctic, bering-land-bridge-national-preserve, cape-espenberg, cape-krusenstern-national-monument, cape-lisburne, cape-prince-of-wales, cape-thompson, chukchi-sea, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, deering, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, distributions, dsas, environment, geoscientificinformation, icy-cape, kivalina, kotzebue-sound, north-slope, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-chemical-features, point-hope, point-lay, red-dog-dock, shishhmaref, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change, shoreline-erosion, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5dfb1beae4b0b5e61c053997, wales
Organization: Department of the Interior
Predictive soil property maps with prediction uncertainty at 30-meter resolution for the Colorado River Basin above Lake Mead

These data were compiled to demonstrate new predictive mapping approaches and provide comprehensive gridded 30-meter resolution soil property maps for the Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam. Random forest models related environmental raster layers representing soil forming factors with field samples to render predictive maps that interpolate between sample locations. Maps represented soil pH, texture fractions (sand, silt clay, fine sand, very fine sand), rock, electrical conductivity (ec), gypsum, CaCO3, sodium adsorption ratio (sar), available water capacity (awc), bulk density (dbovendry), erodibility (kwfact), and organic matter (om) at 7 depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100, and 200 cm) as well as depth to restrictive layer (resdept) and surface rock size and cover. Accuracy and error estimated using a 10-fold cross validation indicated a range of model performances with coefficient of variation (R2) for models ranging from 0.20 to 0.76 with mean of 0.52 and a standard deviation of 0.12. Models of pH, om and ec had the best accuracy (R2 &gt; 0.6). Most texture fractions, CaCO3, and SAR models had R2 values from 0.5-0.6. Models of kwfact, dbovendry, resdept, rock models, gypsum and awc had R2 values from 0.4-0.5 excepting near surface models which tended to perform better. Very fine sands and 200 cm estimates for other models generally performed poorly (R2 from 0.2-0.4), and sample size for the 200 cm models was too low for reliable model building.  More than 90% of the soils data used was sampled since 2000, but some older samples are included. Uncertainty estimates were also developed by creating relative prediction intervals, which allow end users to evaluate uncertainty easily.

Tags: accuracy-and-error-estimated, arizona, available-water-capacity, bulk-density, calcium-carbonate, colorado, colorado-river, colorado-river-basin, colorado-river-basin-above-hoover-dam, digital-soil-mapping, electrical-conductivity, environmental-conditions, environmental-raster-layers, erodibility, geoscientificinformation, gypsum, hoover-dam, interpolate, machine-learning, maps-and-atlases, nevada, new-mexico, organic-matter, predicitve-modeling, predictive-mapping, predictive-maps, random-forest-models, random-forests, restrictive-layer, rock, sodium-adsorption-ratio, soil-conductivity, soil-density, soil-forming-factors, soil-ph, soil-properties, soil-property-maps, soil-sciences, soil-texture, soils, surface-rock-cover, surface-rock-size, texture-fractions, uncertainty, usgs-5e063e5ce4b0b207aa0a6f45, utah, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital elevation model of the Nehalem Bay near Wheeler, Oregon 2019

Bathymetric data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 2019 for approximately 2.2 square kilometers of the Nehalem Bay between the Highway 101 bridge and Nehalem Bay State Park (about 6.5 kilometers) near Wheeler, Oregon. The data were collected using a Trimble R8 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver combined with a Seafloor Systems Hydrolite TM single-beam 200 kilohertz echosounder mounted to a motorized boat. GPS positions received corrections in real time from the Oregon Real-Time GNSS Network. Sound velocity profiles were recorded at 19 different locations evenly spaced throughout the survey area using an AML Oceanographic Base X2 100 meter sound velocity profiler in order to quantify the spatial and temporal variation in sound velocity. Data was collected using the UTM Zone 10 North (meters) (NAD83[2011]) coordinate system, with elevations relative to NAVD88 using Geoid 12B. Data was post-processed to remove spurious data points. Raw depths were corrected using the mean value of the recorded sound velocity profiles, then converted to bed elevations. The mean vertical and horizontal uncertainties are 0.04145 and 0.00945 meters, respectively.
This product is a GeoTiff raster digital elevation model (DEM) based on the bed elevation data. Bed elevations were used to create a triangulated irregular network (TIN) surface which was edited by adding lines delineating breaks in slope, then converted into a raster with a 20-meter cell size.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-measurement, digital-elevation-models, elevation, estuary, gps, gps-measurement, inlandwaters, nehalem, nehalem-river, oregon, rtk, single-beam-echo-sounder, sonar, stream-bed-elevation, topography, usgs-5dfab8dee4b0b5e61c0534a7, wheeler
Organization: Department of the Interior