AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Swath bathymetry gridded data (survey 1) collected by the U.S. Geological Survey surrounding Muskeget Channel, MA, October 2010 (Esri grid, UTM Zone 19N, WGS 84, 2-m resolution, survey1_2m)

These data were collected in a collaboration between the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The primary objective of this program was to collect baseline bathymetry for Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts, and identify areas of morphologic change within and around the channel. Repeat surveys in select areas were collected one month apart to monitor change. These data were collected to support an assessment of the effect on sediment transport that a tidal instream energy conversion facility would have within Muskeget Channel. Accurate data and maps of sea-floor topography are important first steps in monitoring bedform migration, fish habitat, marine resources, and environmental changes due to natural or human impacts. The data include high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, sound velocity in water, and navigation data. These data were collected during two surveys between October 2010 and November 2011 onboard the research vessel (RV) Rafael using an SEA Ltd. SwathPlus interferometric sonar (234 kilohertz). More information about the cruise can be found on the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center field activity Web page at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2010-072-FA.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bass-ledge, bathymetry, cape-poge, chappaquiddick-island, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, edgartown, elevation, esri-grid, geospatial-datasets, hawes-shoal, imagerybasemapsearthcover, interferometric-sonar, katama-bay, marine-geophysics, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, muskeget-channel, muskeget-island, mutton-shoal, nantucket-island, nantucket-sound, north-america, norton-shoal, oceans, r-v-rafael, sea-floor-characteristics, sea-ltd-swathplus-interferometric-sonar, shovelful-shoal, swath-bathymetry, tuckernuck-island, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-1d829900-b84b-43a4-b3ea-05a4d1bee324, vineyard-sound, wasque-point, wasque-shoal, whcmsc, whcmsc-field-activity-serial-number-2010-072-fa, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 12

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661ead34d34e7eb9eb7e3d8d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shapefile outlining the Lake Mohave shoreline

Lake Mohave is one of several multi-purpose reservoirs that have been constructed on the Colorado River.  The lake was formed upon completion of the Davis Dam in 1953. No mapping of the floor of the lake had been conducted since completion of the Davis Dam. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with researchers from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, completed a geophysical survey of this lake in April 2002.  The survey included collection of sidescan sonar imagery of nearly the entire lake floor, and high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles along widely spaced lines throughout the lake.  The detailed mapping of the lake floor was used to determine the amount of sediment that had accumulated in the lake since impoundment, its distribution, and the processes of deposition.

Tags: arizona, bounds, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, colorado-river, davis-dam, geospatial-datasets, hoover-dam, lake, lake-mohave, las-vegas, mojave-desert, nelsons-landing, nevada, north-america, of-2004-1247, open-file-report, polygon, reservoir, shapefile, shoreline, study-areas, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-3c77626b-f8ff-47a5-9098-e1bebb1b3862, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Species distribution model (SDM) for Ephedra nevadensis in the Mojave Desert

Preserving native species diversity is fundamental to ecosystem conservation. Selecting appropriate native species for use in restoration is a critical component of project design and may emphasize species attributes such as life history, functional type, pollinator services, and nutritional value for wildlife. Determining which species are likely to establish and persist in a particular environment is a key consideration. Species distribution models (SDMs) characterize relationships between species occurrences and the physical environment (e.g., climate, soil, topographic relief) and provide a mechanism for assessing which species may successfully propagate at a restoration site. In conjunction with information on species attributes, SDMs facilitate holistic ecosystem restoration by enabling practitioners to identify diverse, resilient assemblages of native species. This project develops SDMs for native species of fundamental ecosystem importance in order to guide restoration of Mojave Desert landscapes. The dataset contained herein provides an SDM for Ephedra nevadensis within its Mojave Desert range based on known occurrences.

Tags: arizona, biogeography, biota, california, habitats, maps-and-atlases, mojave, native-plant-materials-development, native-species, nevada, species-distribution-model, usgs-61f86823d34e622189c29689, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Shasta, California

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

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, ca, california, f06093-siskiyou, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, mount-shasta, mt-shasta, residual-magnetic-field, shasta, total-field, united-states, usgs-68c2276a-4559-469b-851c-ff8ab41607ef
Organization: Department of the Interior
Percent of land in agricultural production and developed for selected Chesapeake Bay watersheds

Land-use estimates of agricultural and developed land for the period 1985-2012 for selected Chesapeake Bay watersheds.

Tags: agriculture, chesapeake-bay, delaware, district-of-columbia, james-river, land-use-change, maryland, new-york, pennsylvania, potomac-river, rappahannock-river, surface-water-quality, susquehanna-river, usgs-5776b287e4b07dd077c876a2, virginia, west-virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Predicting future grizzly bear habitat use in the Bitterroot Ecosystem under recolonization and reintroduction scenarios: spatial data

Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) habitat use maps delineate predicted habitat use for grizzly bears around the Bitterroot Ecosystem (BE), a federally designated recovery zone in western Montana and central Idaho. These raster data are the official data release for Sells and Costello (2024), “Predicting future grizzly bear habitat use in the Bitterroot Ecosystem under recolonization and reintroduction scenarios.”
Many conservation actions must be implemented with limited data. This is especially true when planning recovery efforts for extirpated populations, such as grizzly bears within the Bitterroot Ecosystem (BE), where strategies for reestablishing a resident population are being evaluated. Here, we applied individual-based movement models developed for a nearby grizzly bear population to predict habitat use in and near the BE, under scenarios of natural recolonization, reintroduction, and a combination of the two strategies. All simulations predicted that habitat use by grizzly bears would be higher in the northern half of the study area. Under the natural recolonization scenario, use was concentrated in Montana, but became more uniform across the northern BE in Idaho over time. Use was more concentrated in central-east Idaho under the reintroduction scenario. Assuming that natural recolonization continues even if bears are reintroduced, use remained widespread across the northern half of the BE and surrounding areas. Simulated grizzly bears selected habitats over a much larger landscape than the BE itself under all scenarios, including multiple-use and private lands, similar to existing populations that have expanded beyond recovery zones. This highlights the importance of recognizing and planning for the role of private lands in recovery efforts, including understanding resources needed to prevent and respond to human-grizzly bear conflict and maintain public acceptance of grizzly bears over a large landscape.

Tags: bears, bitterroot-ecosystem, connectivity, farming, grizzly-bears, habitat-use, idaho, integrated-step-selection-functions, montana, movement-ecology, natural-resource-management, northern-continental-divide-ecosystem, united-states, ursus-arctos, us-northern-rocky-mountains, usgs-668d78eed34eb8d205624b6e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 0338 land-water classification data

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

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b5f52afe4b006a11f66ea73, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
A National Land Use And Land Cover Projection For Threat Assessment And Conservation Planning

This dataset contains a projection of land use and land cover for the conterminous United States for the period 2001 - 2061. This projection used the USGS's LUCAS (Land Use and Carbon Scenario Simulator) model to project a business as usual scenario of land cover and land use change. By running the LUCAS model on the USGS's YETI high performance computer and parallelizing the computation, we ran 100 Monte Carlo simulations based on empirically observed rates of change at a relatively fine scale (270m). We sampled from multiple observed rates of change at the county level to introduce heterogeneity into the Monte Carlo simulations. Using this approach allowed the model to project different outcomes that were summarized to produce estimates of likelihood of development at any given location. These estimates can then be used in conservation planning to determine where, and at what rate, land use change would occur according to this scenario.

Tags: land-cover, land-use, lucas-model, projection, scenario, usgs-5a87249de4b00f54eb3a2e1e
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS Seafloor Mapping ALPH 98013 Chirp Subbottom Data offshore of the New York - New Jersey metropolitan area

This CD-ROM contains digital high resolution seismic reflection data collected during the USGS ALPH 98013 cruise. The seismic-reflection data are
stored as SEG-Y standard format that can be read and manipulated by most seismic-processing software. Much of the information specific to the data are contained in the headers of the
SEG-Y format files. The file system format is ISO 9660 which can be read with DOS, Unix, and MAC operating systems with the appropriate CD-ROM driver software installed.

Tags: apex, atlantic-ocean, chirp, datasonics-sis-1000, distributions, iso-9660-cd-rom, marine-geophysics, new-york, new-york-bight, ny, seg-y, seismic-reflection, seismic-reflection-methods, seismic-reflection-profiling, sub-bottom-profiling, substrate, usgs-f186ed83-0cf5-4d56-ab62-674946511ff5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual Aquaculture and Irrigation Water-Use Estimates for the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, 1999-2017

The annual water-use rasters estimate the total amount of groundwater used for aquaculture and irrigation purposes within the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. This dataset contains 19 annual water-use rasters that are totals of 6 different use categories: aquaculture, cotton, corn, rice, soybeans, and all other crops. Units are in cubic meters per square mile.

Tags: alabama, aquaculture-water-use, arkansas, illinois, kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, missouri, remote-sensing, tennessee, texas, usgs-5dde8628e4b04a30051ae900, water-supply-and-demand, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Marine Arctic polygon distribution of Glacial Eelpout (Lycodes frigidus) Collett, 1879

Region(s) of distribution of Glacial Eelpout (Lycodes frigidus) Collett, 1879 in the Arctic as digitized for U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5038. For details on the project and purpose, see the report at https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20165038. Complete metadata for the collection of species datasets is in the metadata document "Dataset_for_Alaska_Marine_Fish_Ecology_Catalog.xml" at https://doi.org/10.5066/F7M61HD7. Source(s) for this digitized data layer are listed in the metadata Process Steps section. Note that the original source may show an extended area; some datasets were limited to the published map boundary. Distributions of marine fishes are shown in adjacent Arctic seas where reliable data are available. The data were clipped to show only the marine distribution areas although some species also may have an inland presence.

Tags: alaska, arctic, beaufort-sea, bering-sea, bering-strait, biogeography, chukchi-beaufort-lease-area, chukchi-sea, collett-1879, distributions, ecology, fish, glacial-eelpout, lycodes-frigidus, marine, marine-fishery-resources, northeast-russia, northwest-canada, northwest-territories, nunavut, u-s-exclusive-economic-zone, usgs-58812d2ce4b00a062356ff6e, yukon
Organization: Department of the Interior
Publicly Available IKONOS-2 Commercial Imagery

'The USGS Commercial Data Purchases (UCDP) imagery collection is an archive of commercial remote sensing imagery from several different commercial vendors. The UCDP imagery is located at the Earth Resources Observation &amp; Science (EROS) Center. This collection of imagery supports the Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy (CRSSP).
The overall goal of the UCDP imagery collection is to provide data to qualified users, primarily federal agencies at no cost or at a nominal cost. Limitations on which users have access to use/purchase copies of the imagery are based on vendor licensing for individual images. Users are allowed to search all UCDP imagery in the archive, but are restricted to only ordering properly licensed images. Users have the option to purchase imagery license upgrades for imagery not currently licensed appropriately for their federal agency. The Commercial Remote Sensing Data Contracts (CRSDC), available through the USGS, handles the imagery license upgrades. The imagery license upgrades enable federal users to purchase and use a copy of the imagery at a nominal fee.
Copies of the current imagery can be downloaded/purchased from EarthExplorer. Users can not specify processing parameters for the imagery. (e.g. if an IKONOS image was originally purchased from Space Imaging as a \"Standard Ortho\" product, UTM projection, WGS84 Datum, and GeoTiff format, those are the only parameters available for that image.)
Current USGS Commercial Data Purchases (UCDP) imagery includes IKONOS imagery from Space Imaging, QuickBird Imagery from DigitalGlobe and OrbView imagery from ORBIMAGE.'

Tags: commercial-data-purchases, commercial-remote-sensing-data, digital-globe, high-resolution-imagery, ikonos, ikonos-2, imagery, land-surface, msi, multispectral, orbimage, orbview, orthorectified, pan, panchromatic, quickbird, quickbird-2, space-imaging, sub-meter-resolution-imagery, usgs, usgs-eros5e83d023ae36bbed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geochemistry and Environmental Tracer Data for Groundwater, Stream Water, and Ferricrete Samples from Handcart Gulch, Colorado

This data release is part of a study examining the use of near-stream groundwater discharge as a tool for Geochemical Exploration. Handcart Gulch is an unmined alpine watershed in Montezuma Mining District in the Colorado Front Range. The streambed is cemented by deep ferricrete deposits. Stream water, groundwater, and ferricrete samples were collected and analyzed to constrain the location of a possible concealed mineral occurrence identified by previous stream water sampling. 
Nineteen, near stream mini-boreholes were drilled through ferricrete using a portable, handheld, gasoline powered, rock coring drill manufactured by Shaw Tool. Boreholes were drilled within 2 meters of the stream on the east and west banks to constrain local-scale groundwater variations on either side of the stream. Ferricrete samples were logged and collected during drilling. A subset of ferricrete samples were analyzed for bulk chemistry and a deionized water leach quantified the water-soluble fraction from the ferricrete samples. 
Groundwater levels and field parameters (temperature, pH, specific conductance, and dissolved oxygen) were measured and groundwater samples were collected using a peristaltic pump for major and trace element chemistry. Environmental tracer samples (stable water isotopes, dissolved noble gases, helium isotopes, and tritium) were collected using a submersible double-valve pump manufactured by Solinst Canada Ltd. Stream water samples were collected adjacent to mini-boreholes over a period of two days with no major precipitation events.

Tags: age-estimation-methods, chemical-analysis, colorado, copper, economy, environment, ferricrete, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, groundwater, handcart-gulch, metallic-mineral-resources, mineral-deposits, mineral-resources-program, mineralogy, mrp, park-county, surface-water-non-marine, usgs-5d40df91e4b01d82ce8da125, water-chemistry, water-sampling
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 0685 Land-Water Classification Data

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

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-59387659e4b0764e6c5d6c3a, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Projected inundation at Midway Atoll, resulting from various scenarios of sea-level rise, groundwater rise and storm waves

This dataset (in ESRI file geodatabase format) contains inundation areas for various future scenarios of sea-level rise (SLR), groundwater rise, and storm waves at Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Four types of inundation scenarios are considered: 
(1) passive SLR,
(2) passive SLR including groundwater rise,
(3) wave-driven inundation during storm events, and 
(4) wave-driven inundation during storm events including groundwater rise.
For each of these four scenarios, five different levels of SLR are considered: 0.00 m, +0.50 m, +1.00 m, +1.50 m, and +2.00 m. We considered each scenario at mean high water in order to predict inundation during the more damaging part of the tidal range. Each of the above types of inundation have their own feature dataset within the geodatabase, named as follows:
(1) Passive,
(2) PassiveGW,
(3) WaveDriven, and
(4) WaveDrivenGW.
Each of these feature datasets contains five feature classes labeled in a manner that indicates the SLR scenario under consideration. For instance, within the dataset "Passive", there are five feature classes: Passive_SLR_00cm, Passive_SLR_50cm, Passive_SLR_100cm, Passive_SLR_150cm, and Passive_SLR_200cm. Thus in total there are 20 feature classes (5 for each type of inundation scenario considered).
A more detailed description of the data and the methodology behind it can be found in the larger work citation: Will the Effects of Sea-Level Rise Create Ecological Traps for Pacific Island Seabirds? 2015. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0136773.

Tags: groundwater, inundation, midway-atoll, northwestern-hawaiian-islands, sea-level-change, storm-events, usgs-5b088ba9e4b0ac450c9a6bee
Organization: Department of the Interior