AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015 Site 1277 Land-Water Matrix

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 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.  This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5938780ae4b0764e6c5d6cdb, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation habitat units derived from 2011 aerial imagery and field data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington

Estuary vegetation cover delineated from 3 September 2011* 0.3-meter-resolution aerial imagery (Microsoft/Digital Globe) at a scale of 1:1500.
*Image date of 3-Sep corrected in metadata. During product generation the imagery date was believed to be 8-25-2011, as reported by DigitalGlobe reseller.

Tags: clallam-county, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, dam, dam-removal, ecological-change, ecological-processes, elwha-river, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, habitats, human-impacts, human-impacts-on-habitats, olympic-peninsula, port-angeles, united-states-of-america, usgs-591dc198e4b0a7fdb43f3f17, vegetation, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation habitat units derived from 2009 aerial imagery and field data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington

Estuary vegetation cover delineated from 11 September 2009 1-meter-resolution NAIP aerial imagery at a scale of 1:1500.

Tags: clallam-county, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, dam, dam-removal, ecological-change, ecological-processes, elwha-river, environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, habitats, human-impacts, human-impacts-on-habitats, olympic-peninsula, port-angeles, united-states-of-america, usgs-591ccd87e4b0a7fdb43deeda, vegetation, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Subalpine meadow plant communities in Yosemite and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 2011-2012

This publication presents data collected within meadows from samples used to assess meadow plant community responses to recreational pack stock as part of a USGS Natural Resources Preservation Project. High elevation meadows are a vital ecological component of mountain systems throughout western North America. They provide critical habitat for wildlife, supply key ecosystem services, and are favored destinations for people visiting the mountains. The biophysical characteristics of meadows are highly variable, especially related to hydrologic regimes and associated plant community types. In the semi-arid landscape of the Sierra, water availability operates at multiple scales strongly influencing meadow plant community structure. Among meadows, variability in plant communities may be due to larger-scale influences on water availability such as elevation, regional climate, or basin hydrology, whereas within-meadow variability is largely an outcome of heterogeneity in local soil moisture regimes. Complicating processes at each scale is the high inter-annual variability in moisture conditions that occur across the Sierra Nevada. Inter-annual variability in meadow moisture can have a strong influence on meadow vegetation that may outweigh local disturbance impacts. Additionally, wet versus dry meadows at the two ends of the productivity spectrum can differ greatly in hydrologic regime and plant community structure, and differences likely outweigh the more localized and potentially lesser effects of pack stock. In addition, different meadow types can display varied resilience to vegetation removal, such that some display compensatory growth and may increase in cover. These considerations suggest that if pack stock do significantly affect meadow plant communities, detecting these effects will be difficult unless the underlying variability among meadow types is controlled for. We adopted a multivariate matching technique utilizing remotely sensed hydro-climatic and geospatial data to pair stock use meadows with similar non-stock (reference) meadows to control for the natural variability inherent to meadow ecosystems.
These data support the following publication: Lee SR, Berlow EL, Ostoja SM, Brooks ML, Génin A, Matchett JR, et al. (2017) A multi-scale evaluation of pack stock effects on subalpine meadow plant communities in the Sierra Nevada. PLoS ONE 12(6): e0178536. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178536

Tags: meadows, pack-stock, plant-communities, sequoia-and-kings-canyon-national-parks, sierra-nevada, usgs-591c9eb5e4b0a7fdb43ded0c, yosemite-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
The importance of parameterization when simulating the hydrologic response of vegetative land-use change, SWAT simulation

The Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was used to simulate the hydrologic response of a watershed in south-central Texas within the Honey Creek State Natural Area for the time period 2001 to 2010; the simulation was focused on simulating the hydrologic outcomes of brush management. 
Specifically a SWAT2012 (Arnold et al., 2012) model of the watershed was built using the ArcSWAT tool (Winchell et al., 
2007). Included are the necessary files and processing scripts for users to recreate the Monte Carlo and global sensitivity analysis results 
presented in the publication. Note the actual outputs from the analyses are not included herein because of storage size limitations. The results of the SWAT modeling are presented in the publication "The importance of parameterization when simulating the hydrologic response of vegetative land-use change" by White, Stengel, Rendon and Banta (2017). 
Arnold,J.G., Moriasi, D.N., Gassman, P.W., Abbaspour, K.C., White, M.J., Srinivasan, Raghavan, Santhi,Chinnasamy, Harmel,R.D., Van Griensven, Ann, Van, M.W., Liew, et al. Swat—Model use, calibration, and validation. Transactions of the ASABE, v.55,no.4, 1491–1508, 2012 
Winchell, M., Srinivasan, Raghavan, Di Luzio, M., and Arnold, J.G., ArcSWAT interface for swat2005 user's guide. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and United States Department of Agriculture, Temple, TX, 2007.

Tags: comal-county, honey-creek-state-natural-area, hydrology, texas, usgs-591c8b89e4b0a7fdb43deafa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015 Site 0599 Land-Water Matrix

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 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.  This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-59387600e4b0764e6c5d6c0e, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Barrier island habitat map and vegetation survey, Dauphin Island, AL, 2015

This dataset includes barrier island land cover types collected from mid-November 2015 to mid-December 2015 along randomly placed transects at seven sites throughout the east end of Dauphin Island. Specifically, this data collection included characterizing land cover types and measuring horizontal position and elevation. We characterized plant community composition and structure for a subset of these points (see Vegetation Survey Data Table). This work was conducted through a joint effort by the State of Alabama, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to evaluate the feasibility of various restoration alternatives and how specific alternatives might increase the resiliency and sustainability of Dauphin Island. The overarching goal of the aforementioned effort is to preserve and enhance the ecological functions and values of the island. This product provides a powerful tool for tracking changes to barrier island habitats over time. 
This data release includes the following three components, which are included in the attached ZIP file:
1) Dauphin Island Habitat Map (Raster data)
2) Land Cover and Vegetation Field Data Points (Vector data)
3) Vegetation Survey Data (Tabular data)

Tags: alabama, barrier-island, beach, biota, coastal-dune, coastal-wetland, dauphin-island, elevation, environment, gulf-of-mexico, mapping, mississippi-sound, mobile-bay, mobile-county, usgs-591c66b1e4b0a7fdb43dea6e, vegetation-community
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geomorphic habitat units derived from 2012 aerial imagery and elevation data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington

Estuary geomorphic units delineated at a scale of 1:1500 using a combination of (a) 30 August 2012 0.15 meter resolution NPS Elwha PlaneCam aerial imagery; and (b) elevation-colored and hillshaded digital elevation models from USGS backpack/jetski topobathy surveys (28 August 2012) for areas &lt; MHHW and aerial lidar surveys (17 October 2012) for elevations &gt; MHHW.

Tags: clallam-county, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, dam, dam-removal, ecological-change, ecological-processes, elwha-river, environment, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, habitats, human-impacts, human-impacts-on-habitats, olympic-peninsula, port-angeles, united-states-of-america, usgs-591b8237e4b0a7fdb43c8e6e, vegetation, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015 Site 1409 Land-Water Matrix

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 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.  This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-59387814e4b0764e6c5d6cdd, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015 Site 0600 Land-Water Matrix

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 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.  This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5938760ae4b0764e6c5d6c12, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geomorphic habitat units derived from 2011 aerial imagery and elevation data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington

Estuary geomorphic units delineated at a scale of 1:1500 using a combination of (a) 03 September 2011* 0.3 meter resolution Microsoft/Digital Globe aerial imagery; and (b) elevation-colored and hillshaded digital elevation models from USGS backpack/jetski topobathy surveys (25 August 2011) for areas &lt; MHHW and aerial lidar surveys (13-15 April 2012) for elevations &gt; MHHW.
*Image date of 3-Sep-11 corrected in metadata. During product generation the imagery date was believed to be 8-25-2011, as reported by DigitalGlobe reseller.

Tags: clallam-county, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, dam, dam-removal, ecological-change, ecological-processes, elwha-river, environment, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, habitats, human-impacts, human-impacts-on-habitats, olympic-peninsula, port-angeles, united-states-of-america, usgs-591b758fe4b0a7fdb43c8e5c, vegetation, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Flow direction from the Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database -- North America

This dataset contains the Flow Direction (FD) for North America from the Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database. The flow direction data were developed and distributed by processing units. There are 13 processing units for North America. The distribution files have the number of the processing unit appended to the end of the zip file name (e.g. na_fd_3_2.zip contains the flow direction data for unit 3-2). The HDMA database provides comprehensive and consistent global coverage of raster and vector topographically derived layers, including raster layers of digital elevation model (DEM) data, flow direction, flow accumulation, slope, and compound topographic index (CTI); and vector layers of streams and catchment boundaries. The coverage of the data is global (-180º, 180º, -90º, 90º) with the underlying DEM being a hybrid of three datasets: HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales), Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). For most of the globe south of 60º North, the raster resolution of the data is 3-arc-seconds, corresponding to the resolution of the SRTM. For the areas North of 60º, the resolution is 7.5-arc-seconds (the smallest resolution of the GMTED2010 dataset) except for Greenland, where the resolution is 30-arc-seconds. The streams and catchments are attributed with Pfafstetter codes, based on a hierarchical numbering system, that carry important topological information.

Tags: dem-stream-hydrologic-derivatives-pfafstetter, digital-elevation-models, elevation, inlandwaters, pfafstetter, streams, usgs-591b543be4b0a7fdb43c8d27
Organization: Department of the Interior
Flow accumulation from the Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database -- North America

This dataset contains the Flow Accumulation (FA) for North America from the Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database. The FA data were developed and distributed by processing units. There are 13 processing units for North America. The distribution files have the number of the processing unit appended to the end of the zip file name (e.g. na_fa_3_2.zip contains the flow accumulation data for unit 3-2). The HDMA database provides comprehensive and consistent global coverage of raster and vector topographically derived layers, including raster layers of digital elevation model (DEM) data, flow direction, flow accumulation, slope, and compound topographic index (CTI); and vector layers of streams and catchment boundaries. The coverage of the data is global (-180º, 180º, -90º, 90º) with the underlying DEM being a hybrid of three datasets: HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales), Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). For most of the globe south of 60º North, the raster resolution of the data is 3-arc-seconds, corresponding to the resolution of the SRTM. For the areas North of 60º, the resolution is 7.5-arc-seconds (the smallest resolution of the GMTED2010 dataset) except for Greenland, where the resolution is 30-arc-seconds. The streams and catchments are attributed with Pfafstetter codes, based on a hierarchical numbering system, that carry important topological information.

Tags: dem-stream-hydrologic-derivatives-pfafstetter, digital-elevation-models, elevation, inlandwaters, pfafstetter, streams, usgs-591b53f6e4b0a7fdb43c8d22
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geomorphic habitat units derived from 2014 aerial imagery and elevation data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington

Estuary geomorphic units delineated at a scale of 1:1500 using a combination of (a) 28 August 2014 0.15 meter resolution NPS Elwha PlaneCam aerial imagery; and (b) elevation-colored and hillshaded digital elevation models from USGS backpack/jetski topobathy surveys (5-8 September 2014) for areas &lt; MHHW and aerial lidar surveys (7 November 2014) supplemented with NPS Elwha PlaneCam SfM photogrammetry data (30 September 2014) for elevations &gt; MHHW.

Tags: clallam-county, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, dam, dam-removal, ecological-change, ecological-processes, elwha-river, environment, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, habitats, human-impacts, human-impacts-on-habitats, olympic-peninsula, port-angeles, united-states-of-america, usgs-591c7cb7e4b0a7fdb43deacb, vegetation, washington
Organization: Department of the Interior
Compound Topographic Index (CTI) from the Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database -- North America

This dataset contains the Compound Topographic Index (CTI) for North America from the Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database. The CTI data were developed and distributed by processing units.  There are 13 processing units for North America.  The distribution files have the number of the processing unit appended to the end of the zip file name (e.g. na_cti_3_2.zip contains the CTI data for unit 3-2).  The HDMA database provides comprehensive and consistent global coverage of raster and vector topographically derived layers, including raster layers of digital elevation model (DEM) data, flow direction, flow accumulation, slope, and compound topographic index (CTI); and vector layers of streams and catchment boundaries. The coverage of the data is global (-180º, 180º, -90º, 90º) with the underlying DEM being a hybrid of three datasets: HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales), Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). For most of the globe south of 60º North, the raster resolution of the data is 3-arc-seconds, corresponding to the resolution of the SRTM. For the areas North of 60º, the resolution is 7.5-arc-seconds (the smallest resolution of the GMTED2010 dataset) except for Greenland, where the resolution is 30-arc-seconds. The streams and catchments are attributed with Pfafstetter codes, based on a hierarchical numbering system, that carry important topological information.

Tags: dem-stream-hydrologic-derivatives-pfafstetter, digital-elevation-models, elevation, inlandwaters, pfafstetter, streams, usgs-591b53bae4b0a7fdb43c8d1d
Organization: Department of the Interior