AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Data-Collection Points Along Transects and Around Perimeter for Lake Darling, Washington County, Iowa

Point coverage of bathymetry data for Lake Darling in Washington Co., Iowa. The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a 
bathymetric survey of Lake Darling in 2004.

Tags: bathymetry, environment, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, inlandwaters, iowa, lake-darling, lakes, usgs, usgs-e5d9397f-9819-4bf9-850a-99289f53f0f8, washington-county
Organization: Department of the Interior
Base-flow index grid for the conterminous United States

This 1-kilometer raster (grid) dataset for the conterminous United States was created by i
nterpolating base-flow index (BFI) values estimated at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 
streamgages. Base flow is the component of streamflow that can be attributed to ground-water 
discharge into streams.

Tags: base-flow-index, environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, usgs-e5d115a1-eda9-448f-9772-5f115764fd29
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment Data for Samples Collected in 2015, 2016, and 2017 from Coastal Louisiana

Data release doi:10.5066/F71G0KKD associated with this metadata record serves as an archive of sediment data for samples collected in 2015, 2016, and 2017 from coastal Louisiana. In 2015 and 2016, sediment grab samples (N=874) were collected coast-wide along shore-perpendicular transects that included back-barrier, emergent (beach and barrier island), shoreface, and nearshore environments. Sample locations were selected to re-occupy locations previously sampled in 2008 (U.S. Geological Survey [USGS] Open-File Report 2013-1083). The 2008 and 2015-2016 datasets were collected under the Barrier Island Coastal Monitoring (BICM) program (CPRA project LA-0226; https://cims.coastal.louisiana.gov/outreach/ProjectView.aspx?projID=LA-0226), an ongoing collaboration between the State of Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), the University of New Orleans (UNO) Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences (PIES), and the USGS. In 2017, additional grab samples (N=77) were collected along shore-perpendicular transects from West Belle Pass to Caminada Pass as part of the CPRA (CPRA project BA-0045; https://cims.coastal.louisiana.gov/outreach/ProjectView.aspx?projID=BA-0045).
The 2015, 2016, and 2017 sediment samples were collected by personnel from UNO–PIES and provided to the USGS St. Petersburg and Coastal Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) sediment laboratory. Textural characteristics were analyzed using a Coulter LS 200 particle-size analyzer. Following SPCMSC data management and archiving protocols, the samples were assigned a USGS field activity number (FAN) (https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2015-301-CNT).
Data products, including sample location tables, results of sediment grain-size analyses, and geographic information system (GIS) data files with accompanying formal Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata can be downloaded from https://doi.org/10.5066/F71G0KKD.

Tags: cameron, caminada-headland, chandeleur-islands, chenier-plain, folk-and-ward, freshwater-bayou, geology, geoscientificinformation, grab-sample, gradistat, grain-size, grand-isle, grand-terre, gulf-of-mexico, isle-dernieres, kurtosis, location, louisiana, mean, oceans, point-au-fer, sediment, skewness, sorting, timbalier-island, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-e5cdd00a-de3a-4c9f-a8b1-891390e1f4d5, vermillion-bay
Organization: Department of the Interior
Acquisition log maintained during field activity 2011-015-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management offshore of Massachusetts around Cape Cod and the Islands in September 2011 (PDFs of Excel spreadsheets)

Accurate data and maps of sea-floor geology are important first steps toward protecting habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes due to natural or human effects. Initiated in 2003, the primary objective of the Geologic Mapping of the Massachusetts Sea Floor program is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. The project is focused on the inshore waters (5–30 meters deep) of Massachusetts. This dataset is from U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) sampling survey 2011-015-FA (September 9–16, 2011) by the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management with partners from the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency aboard the ocean survey vessel Bold. During the survey, surficial sediment samples and bottom still and video imagery were collected in Cape Cod Bay, Buzzards Bay, and Vineyard Sound; south of Martha's Vineyard; and south and east of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bay, bottom-photographs, bottom-video, buzzards-bay, cape-cod, cape-cod-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continental-shelf, czm, elizabeth-islands, field-activity-2011-015-fa, field-activity-logs, field-activity-number-11015, geoscientificinformation, ground-truth, logbook, ma-czm, marine-geology, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, massczm, nantucket, navigation, nomans-land, north-america, oceans, osv-bold, photographic-sampling, photos, raster, sea-floor, seabed, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, seafloor, seafloor-samples, sediment-samples, sedimentary-environments, sediments, sound, stations, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-e5bd5e78-3bfc-4323-9d8f-2c84057fffc8, van-veen-grab-sampler, video-observation, videos, vineyard-sound, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Peat Thickness Measurements from Grand Bay, Mississippi and Alabama

Location and elevation data were collected along with peat auger cores during six U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) field activities from 2013-2018 in and around Grand Bay, Mississippi (MS) and Alabama (AL) and used in models described by Smith and others (2024). Peat auger cores were described, photographed, and the thickness of the peat unit was measured with a measuring tape. Following collection, the distance from the core location to various geomorphic boundaries (e.g., upland, marsh shoreline, water edge, etc.) and other metrics (angle and width of marsh) were determined using geoprocessing tools from the Data Management and Analysis Toolboxes in ArcGIS Pro (version 3.1) using 2015 shorelines from Terrano and others (2018). This dataset includes all the aforementioned metrics along with the angle from the shoreline and upland boundary to the core locations. The cores used in this data release were collected during the following six field activities identified by the following USGS assigned field activity numbers (FANs): 13BIM01, 2014-323-FA (alternate FAN 14CCT01), 2016-331-FA (16CCT03), 2016-358-FA (16CCT07), 2017-315-FA (17CCT02), and 2018-332-FA (18CCT01). Additional marsh and estuarine data from these six field activities (sediment characteristics, loss-on-ignition (LOI), foraminiferal census data, radiochemistry, and site location information) are available in previously published data releases, which are cross-referenced in the metadata of this data release. Downloadable data are available as a comma-separated values text file (.csv) and Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata (.txt and .xml).

Tags: 13bim01, 14cct01, 16cct03, 16cct07, 17cct02, 18cct01, alabama, augering, bayou-cumbest, bayou-heron, cartography, core-analysis, datasets, elevation, environment, field-inventory-and-monitoring, field-sampling, geology, geoscientificinformation, grand-bay, grand-bay-national-estuarine-research-reserve, gulf-of-mexico, location, marsh-core, middle-bay, mississippi, nerr, peat-thickness, point-aux-chenes, rocks-and-deposits, sediment, spcmsc, stratigraphic-thickness, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-e5834b32-ccad-464f-b836-0a09bd2a1966
Organization: Department of the Interior
Uncertainty table for lidar-derived shorelines used when calculating rates in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System software for the Cape Cod region from Provincetown to the southern end of Monomoy Island, Massachusetts (OuterCapeCod_shorelines_uncertainty.dbf)

Due to continued coastal population growth and increased threats of erosion, current data on trends and rates of shoreline movement are required to inform shoreline and floodplain management. The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management launched the Shoreline Change Project in 1989 to identify erosion-prone areas of the coast. In 2001, a 1994 shoreline was added to calculate both long- and short-term shoreline change rates at 40-meter intervals along ocean-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast.
The Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, has compiled reliable historical shoreline data along open-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast under the Massachusetts Shoreline Change Mapping and Analysis Project 2013 Update. Two oceanfront shorelines for Massachusetts (approximately 1,800 km in total length) were (1) delineated using 2008/09 color aerial orthoimagery, and (2) extracted from topographic LIDAR datasets (2007) obtained from NOAA's Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center. The new shorelines were integrated with existing Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and USGS historical shoreline data in order to compute long- and short-term rates using the latest version of the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS).

Tags: atlantic-coast, cape-cod, chatham, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, coastal-services-center, csc, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, endpoint-rate, geospatial-datasets, high-water-line-offsets, high-water-line-uncertainty, lidar-uncertainty, massachusetts, massachusetts-coastal-zone-management, monomoy-island, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, new-england, noaa, oceans, provincetown, proxy-datum-bias, shoreline-change-rate, truro, u-s-army-corps-of-engineers, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usace, usgs, usgs-e5820e32-2d0a-4ac4-af0a-9af550b242ae, weighted-linear-regression-rate, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 4.3 shoreline intersection points used to calculate short-term (End Point Rate)shoreline change statistics for the South Shore coastal region from Hewitts Cove in Hingham to the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich (SouthShore_intersects_STepr.shp)

Due to continued coastal population growth and increased threats of erosion, current data on trends and rates of shoreline movement are required to inform shoreline and floodplain management. The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management launched the Shoreline Change Project in 1989 to identify erosion-prone areas of the coast. In 2001, a 1994 shoreline was added to calculate both long- and short-term shoreline change rates at 40-meter intervals along ocean-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast.
The Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, has compiled reliable historical shoreline data along open-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast under the Massachusetts Shoreline Change Mapping and Analysis Project 2013 Update. Two oceanfront shorelines for Massachusetts (approximately 1,800 km in total length) were (1) delineated using 2008/09 color aerial orthoimagery, and (2) extracted from topographic LIDAR datasets (2007) obtained from NOAA's Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center. The new shorelines were integrated with existing Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and USGS historical shoreline data in order to compute long- and short-term rates using the latest version of the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS).

Tags: accretion, atlantic-coast, baseline, cape-cod-canal, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, erosion, esri-point-shapefile, geospatial-datasets, hingham, historic-shoreline, intersects, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, measurement-locations, new-england, oceans, sandwich, shoreline, shoreline-change-rate, short-term, south-shore, transect, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-e57f18fb-3e74-455a-8a89-dec40777d069, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pumpage for the transient ground-water flow model, Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

This digital data set represents ground-water discharged from the Death Valley regional ground-water 
flow system (DVRFS) through pumped wells. Pumping from wells in the transient flow model of the 
DVRFS is simulated using the Multi-Node Well (MNW) package for MODFLOW-2000 (Halford and 
Hanson, 2002). In the DVRFS region wells typically are completed with screens that span multiple 
aquifers and thus multiple layers in the model. The MNW package uses the hydraulic conductivity 
and thickness to determine how much of the well pumpage is derived from each model layer. 
Estimated pumpage for the period 1913-98 (San Juan and others, 2004) was simulated as the total 
pumpage of wells in each model cell. This resulted in 8,569 wells being simulated by pumping in 432 
cells ("Larger Work Citation", Chapter F, table F-5). The area simulated by the DVRFS transient 
ground-water flow model is an approximately 45,000 square-kilometer region of southern Nevada and 
California. The DVRFS transient ground-water flow model is one of the most recent in a number of 
regional-scale models developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the U.S. Department of 
Energy (DOE) to support investigations at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and at Yucca Mountain, Nevada 
(see "Larger Work Citation", Chapter A, page 8).

Tags: amargosa-desert, ash-meadows, california-valley, chicago-valley, china-ranch, clark-county, clayton-valley, coal-valley, death-valley, death-valley-regional-ground-water-flow-system, eastern-california, esmeralda-county, eureka-valley, flow-model, franklin-lake, franklin-well, garden-valley, ground-water, ground-water-discharge, hydrogeology, hydrology, inyo-county, kern-county, las-vegas-valley, lincoln-county, mesquite-valley, mineral-county, mono-county, multi-node-well-package, nevada, nevada-test-site, nye-county, oasis-valley, owlshead-mountains, pahranagat-range, pahrump-valley, panamint-range, penoyer-valley, pumping, pumping-well, railroad-valley, resting-spring, saline-valley, san-bernardino-county, sarcobatus-flat, sheep-range, shoshone, silurian-valley, southern-nevada, spring-mountains, stewart-valley, stone-cabin-valley, tecopa, transient-ground-water-model, usgs-e57b6177-03b7-4cd5-af41-bdfa2de54100, water-well, yucca-mountain
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE 2016 Remap Slope (SLP) Micronesia

Slope was produced from the IA DEM using ESRIs Slope tool. Output measurement for slope was both Degrees and Percent Rise (2 files produced).

Tags: biota, federated-states-of-micronesia, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, insular-areas, landfire-2016-remap, micronesia, oconus, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, slope, topo, topography, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, usgs-e8c1665e-7f45-4faf-a175-eb5c524b89dd
Organization: Department of the Interior
Beach Profile Data Collected from Madeira Beach, Florida (January 21, 2022)

This dataset, prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC), provides beach profile data collected at Madeira Beach, Florida. Data were collected on foot by a person equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna affixed to a backpack outfitted for surveying location and elevation data (XYZ) along pre-determined transects. The horizontal position data are given in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projected coordinate system, Zone 17 North (17N), referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83); the elevation data are referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88), GEOID12B.

Tags: altimetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, beach, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, distributions, earth-science-gt-land-surface-gt-topography-gt-terrain-elevation, earth-science-gt-oceans-gt-coastal-processes-gt-beaches, elevation, elevation-data, florida, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, global-positioning-system-gps-observations, gps-measurement, gulf-of-mexico, madeira-beach, marine-geology, oceans, providers-gt-government-agencies-u-s-federal-agencies-gt-doi-gt-usgs-gt-doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, topographic-mapping, topography, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-e5657d83-6b52-42c2-89bf-67a045ec25b9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) Occupancy and Density Across an Urban to Rural Gradient.

This dataset contains wildlife detections from game cameras at 17 study sites in Northwest Arkansas, ranging from urban green space sites within downtown Fayetteville to more natural sites within the Ozark Mountain Ecoregion. Each row represents a wildlife detection on motion-triggered game camera.

Tags: armadillo, biota, density, detection, ecosystem-engineer, occupancy, random-encounter-model, urban-rural-gradient, usgs-e54c2743-9c7b-40e2-b898-97e9f2746f1d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Contours--Offshore of Pacifica, California

This part of DS 781 presents data for the bathymetric contours for several seafloor maps of the Offshore of Pacifica map area, California. The vector data file is included in "Contours_OffshorePacifica.zip," which is accessible from https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/OffshorePacifica/data_catalog_OffshorePacifica.html. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Edwards, B.D., Phillips, E.L., Dartnell, P., Greene, H.G., Bretz, C.K., Kvitek, R.G., Hartwell, S.R., Johnson, S.Y., Cochrane, G.R., Dieter, B.E., Sliter, R.W., Ross, S.L., Golden, N.E., Watt, J.T., Chin, J.L., Erdey, M.D., Krigsman, L.M., Manson, M.W., and Endris, C.A. (S.A. Cochran and B.D. Edwards, eds.), 2014, California State Waters Map Series—Offshore of Pacifica, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014–1260, pamphlet 38 p., 10 sheets, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141260.
10-m interval contours of the Offshore of Pacifica map area, California, were generated from bathymetry data collected by Fugro Pelagos and by California State University, Monterey Bay, Seafloor Mapping Lab (CSUMB). Mapping was completed between 2005 and 2007, using a combination of 400-kHz Reson 7125 and 244-kHz Reson 8101 multibeam echosounders. These mapping missions combined to collect bathymetry from about the 10-m isobath to beyond the 3-nautical-mile limit of California's State Waters. Bathymetric contours at 10-m intervals were generated from the merged 2-m bathymetric surface. The most continuous contour segments were preserved while smaller segments and isolated island polygons were excluded from the final output. Contours were smoothed via a polynomial approximation with exponential kernel (PAEK) algorithm using a tolerance value of 60 m. The contours were then clipped to the boundary of the map area. These data are not intended for navigational purposes.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-island-shelf, distributions, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, maps-and-atlases, marine-geophysics, marine-nearshore-subtidal, marine-offshore-subtidal, multibeam-echo-sounder, northern-california-ecoregion, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pacifica, pcmsc, rock-substrate, rockaway-beach, san-mateo-county, seabed, seafloor-topography, sonar-methods, state-of-california, transform-continental-margin, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-mineral-substrate, usgs, usgs-e51a2e08-8aca-4781-8baf-3df3e3ba3b05
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Sangre de Cristo, Colorado

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, co, colorado, f08003-alamosa, f08015-chaffee, f08023-costilla, f08027-custer, f08043-fremont, f08055-huerfano, f08109-saguache, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, residual-magnetic-field, sangre-de-cristo-mountains, sangre-de-cristo-mtns, total-field, united-states, usgs-e5140ab9-5505-492f-ac5e-e283fea48682
Organization: Department of the Interior
Offshore baselines for Assateague Island, Maryland and Virginia (projected, UTM Zone 18 (NAD83))


Assessing the physical change to shorelines and wetlands  is critical in determining the resiliency of wetland systems that protect adjacent habitat and communities. The wetland and back-barrier shorelines of Assateague Island, located in Maryland and Virginia, changed as a result of wave action and storm surge that occurred during Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall on October 29, 2012.  The impact of Hurricane Sandy  will be assessed and placed in its historical context to understand the future vulnerability of wetland systems.
Making these assessments will rely on data extracted from current and historical resources such as maps, aerial photographs, satellite imagery, and lidar elevation data, which document physical changes over time.
This USGS Data Series publication includes includes several open-ocean shorelines, back-island shorelines, back-island shoreline points, sand area polygons, and sand lines for Assateague Island that were extracted from orthoimagery (ortho aerial photography)dated from April 12, 1989 to September 5, 2013.


Tags: accomack, assateague-island, baselines, coastal-processes, coastal-processes-gt-beaches, doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal-and-marine-geology-u-s-geological-survey-u-s-department-of-interior, field-inventory-and-monitoring, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, location, maryland, national-seashore, ocean-gt-coastal-processes-gt-barrier-islands, oceans, unconsolidated-deposits, united-states, usgs-e4f9126e-e820-4112-a883-24e269639812, virginia, worcester
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: SE Alaska (Granite Fiords)

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an aircraft that recorded magnetic-field intensity values and location. In surveys such as this one where the data were originally collected in digital form and not digitized from contour maps, the information we provide typically includes latitude, longitude, magnetic anomaly in nanoTeslas, and intermediate values used to derive the magnetic anomaly such as total magnetic field.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, field-monitoring-stations, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic-field-earth, usgs-e8c13b9b-264d-491e-8aa7-c8f136a725d4
Organization: Department of the Interior