AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Location of Seafloor Photographs Acquired During U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cruise 09059 (RAFA09059) in Long Island Sound, North of Plum Island, New York (RAFA09059_PIBOTPHOTOS, Geographic)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Imagery, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provides a fundamental framework for research and management activities along this part of Long Island Sound, shows the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provides information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. Interpretive data layers were derived from the multibeam echo-sounder data and sidescan-sonar data collected north of Plum Island, New York. During November 2009, bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of a ground-truth reconnaissance survey. For more information on the ground-truth survey see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fa=2009-059-FA.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bottom-photograph-locations, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, connecticut-department-of-environmental-protection, ct-dep, esri-shapefile, field-activity-number-09059, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, ground-truth, location, long-island-sound, navigational-data, new-york, north-america, oceans, ofr-2010-1005, open-file-report-2010-1005, orient-point, photo-locations, plum-island, point-shapefile, r-v-rafael, sea-floor, seaboss, stations, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, underwater-photography, united-states, usgs, usgs-7ab38283-a8e5-44aa-9fa7-5695558946e3, usgs-woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center, whcmsc
Organization: Department of the Interior
PeakFQ version 7.4.1 specifications file for peak-flow frequency analyses for selected streamgages in the Upper Yellowstone River Basin, based on data through water year 2022

This file (wymt_ffa_2022Yellowstone.psf) contains specifications to run PeakFQ version 7.4.1 for peak-flow frequency analyses for selected streamgages based on data through water year 2022.

Tags: annual-exceedance-probability, carbon-county-mt, clarks-fork-yellowstone, computational-methods, floods, hazard-preparedness, hazards, hydrologic-processes, hydrology, inlandwaters, land, montana, north-america, park-county-mt, park-county-wy, peak-flow-frequency, shields, statistical-analysis, stillwater, stillwater-county-mt, stream-gage-measurement, streamflow, sweetgrass-county-mt, time-series-analysis, united-states, upper-yellowstone, upper-yellowstone-lake-basin, usgs-6495baead34ef77fcb01e141, usgs-cc-natural-hazards, watershed-management, wyoming, yellowstone-headwaters
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sea Otter Aerial Survey Data from Southeast Alaska, 2002-2003

This dataset consists of three tables related to abundance and distribution of northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in Southeast Alaska, based on data collected during a series of population-wide aerial surveys. The dataset consists of: (1) sea otter counts along strip transects, (2) sea otter counts in Intensive Search Unit (ISU) within the transects, and (3) Transect coordinates.

Tags: abundance-organisms, aerial-surveys, alaska, animals-vertebrates, biota, carnivores, ecology, ecosystem-monitoring, enhydra-lutris-kenyoni, environment, glacier-bay, mammals, marine-mammals, northern-sea-otters, otters, population-density, population-dynamics, sea-otters, southeast-alaska, spatial-distribution, usgs-asc268, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lake Trout Otolith Growth Increment Measurements, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska, 1979-2012

This data set documents the width of annual otolith growth increments from Lake Trout collected in lakes within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska. The analysis of this data was published in von Biela et al. 2020 (DOI: 10.1111/eff.12566)

Tags: age-composition, age-structure, alaska, alaska-peninsula, animals-vertebrates, aquatic-ecosystems, biota, environment, fish, lake-clark-national-preserve, lakes, otoliths, ray-finned-fishes, salmons-trouts, usgs-asc278
Organization: Department of the Interior
Landsat 4-5 Collection 1 Level-2 Scene Products (Surface Reflectance)

The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center archive holds data collected by Landsat 4 and 5.  All Landsat data held in the USGS EROS archive are available for download at no charge.

Tags: collection-1, earth-resources-observation-and-science-eros-center, imagery, imagerybasemapsearthcover, infrared-imagery, infrared-wavelengths, landsat, radiance, remote-sensing, satellite, thematic-mapper-tm, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, usgs-eros5e83d29fb3d917b6, visible-imagery, visible-wavelengths
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spatiotemporal dynamics of soil carbon following coastal wetland loss at a Louisiana coastal salt marsh in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain in 2019

This dataset provides the water content, bulk density, carbon concentrations, nitrogen concentrations, and carbon content  of all fourteen cores sampled in coastal Louisiana (CRMS 0224) in October of 2019.  Each sample is identified by a unique identifier that corresponds to each site by depth increment combination. The pond age range associated with each site is provided. The depth increment associated with each sample is provided.

Tags: carbon-cycling, ecological-processes, environment, louisiana, mississippi-river-delta, sea-level-change, united-states, usgs-615736e8d34e0df5fb9f83a9, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 Site 0173 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 398 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 2021 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. Five previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015/2016, and 2018). 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-64dce1aed34e5f6cd5528016, wetland, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
DS926 Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system in Florida and parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina -- Contours for top of the middle confining unit of the Floridan aquifer system

Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system 
were developed to define an updated hydrogeologic framework as part of the U.S. Geological 
Survey Groundwater Resources Program. This feature class contains contour lines generated 
from the top of the mcu raster.

Tags: alabama, contour, environment, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, middle-confining-unit, regional-groundwater-availability-study, south-carolina, stratigraphy, top, united-states-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-70ca8460-718b-4c23-93bb-d09b13430534
Organization: Department of the Interior
Land Use and Land Cover Projections for California's 4th Climate Assessment

This dataset consists of modeled projections of land use and land cover and population for the State of California for the period 1970-2101. For the 1970-2001 period, we used the USGS's LUCAS model to "backcast" LULC, beginning with the 2001 initial conditions and ending with 1970. For future projections, the model was initialized in 2001 and run forward on an annual time step to 2100. In total 5 simulations were run with 10 Monte Carlo replications of each simulation. The simulations include: 1) Historical backcast from 2001-1970, 2) Business-as-usual (BAU) projection from 2001-2101, and 3) three modified BAU projections based on California Department of Finance population projections based on high, medium, and low growth rates.

Tags: california, land-cover, land-use, lucas-model, projection, scenario, usgs-587fb408e4b085de6c11f389
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 264180  Lewotobi

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d01284e4b0236b68f52b9f, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sprague River Oregon Centerline North Fork 1940

The Sprague River drains 4090 square kilometers in south-central Oregon before flowing into the Williamson 
River and upper Klamath Lake. In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the USGS and University 
of Oregon conducted a study to evaluate channel and floodplain processes for the 131 km of the Sprague River 
and its major tributaries, including the lower 20 km of the South Fork Sprague River, the lower 16 km of the North 
Fork Sprague River, and the lower 62 km of the Sycan River. The study involved multiple analyses, including 
assessments of historical channel change, riparian and floodplain vegetation, and surficial geology. To support 
these analyses, digital floodplain and channel maps were prepared from historic notes, maps, and aerial photos 
to depict channel and floodplain conditions at different times between 1866 and 2005. The geospatial database 
of current and historic channel and floodplain conditions will also enable evaluation of long-term trends pertaining 
to aquatic and riparian habitat conditions.

Tags: channel-analysis, floodplain-analysis, geomorphology, inlandwaters, klamath-basin, sprague-river-oregon, usgs-23cf59d8-07f7-4ca8-9196-9c70e48afc83
Organization: Department of the Interior
Undersized Fire Mapping Program Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 2021

This map layer is a thematic raster image of MTBS burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 2021 that do not meet standard MTBS size criteria. These data are published to augment the data that are available from the MTBS program. This product was produced using the methods of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Program (MTBS), however these fires do not meet the size criteria for a standard MTBS assessment. The MTBS Program assesses the frequency, extent, and magnitude (size and severity) of all large wildland fires (wildfires and prescribed fires) in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for the period 1984 and beyond. MTBS typically maps fires using an initial assessment (immediately after the fire) or an extended assessment (peak of green the season after the fire) for low-biomass and high-biomass fires respectively. Refer to MTBS.gov for more information on MTBS methods and criteria. Standard MTBS mappings must meet the size criteria of at least 500 acres for the eastern states and territories and 1,000 acres for the western states and territories to be eligible for mapping. Undersized MTBS fires are those fires that do not meet the standard MTBS size criteria but are otherwise mapped using standard MTBS methodologies.

Tags: ak, alaska, burn-severity, burned-area, continental-u-s, conus, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, fire-occurrence, hawaii, hi, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, pr, prescribed-fire, puerto-rico, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-64cd047ed34ef477cf3a69ed, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Green River Oil Shale Resources Database

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently completed a comprehensive assessment of in-place oil in oil shales in the Eocene Green River in the Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. A database was compiled that includes about 47,000 Fischer assays from 186 core holes and 240 rotary drill holes. Most of the oil yield data were analyzed by the former U.S. Bureau of Mines oil shale laboratory in Laramie, Wyoming, and some analyses were made by private laboratories. Total in-place resources for the three assessed units in the Green River Formation are: (1) Tipton Shale Member, 362,816 million barrels of oil (MMBO), (2) Wilkins Peak Member, 704,991 MMBO, and (3) LaClede Bed of the Laney Member, 377,184 MMBO, for a total of 1.44 trillion barrels of oil in place. This compares with estimated in-place resources for the Piceance Basin of Colorado of 1.53 trillion barrels and estimated in-place resources for the Uinta Basin of Utah and Colorado of 1.32 trillion barrels. Click here to return to Main Contents

Tags: geoscientificinformation, oil-shale-resources, usgs-66140c93d34e6334665301cb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Excelsior Mountains, Nevada

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, excelsior-mountains, excelsior-mtns, f32009-esmeralda, f32019-lyon, f32021-mineral, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, nevada, nv, residual-magnetic-field, total-field, united-states, usgs-7295c896-97f1-491f-b073-362ec013fd9e
Organization: Department of the Interior
High resolution natural color imagery collected by uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) for mapping channel and vegetation change along a 2-mile reach of the Middle Green River at Grays Canyon near Green River, Utah from 2021-2023

The U.S. Geological Survey collected low-altitude airborne natural color imagery via a fixed-wing uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) for mapping channel and vegetation change along a 2-mile reach of the Middle Green River at Grays Canyon near Green River, UT. Visual imagery was collected in jpg format and Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry techniques were applied (Over et. al. 2021) using Agisoft Metashape Professional (v. 2.1.2 build 18358) to derive time-specific high-resolution 5 centimeter natural color orthomosaics of the study reach annually from 2021 to 2023. Ground control points (2ft x 2ft ground targets) were also surveyed in the field using Trimble RTK GPS survey units and were used in georectification in the SfM process.

Tags: aerial-photography, drone, environment, geoscientificinformation, grays-canyon, green-river, hydrology, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, remote-sensing, riparian, surface-water-non-marine, uas, uncrewed-aircraft-system, unoccupied-aircraft-system, usgs-66b3a891d34eebcf8bb33bd2, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 343130  Tigre, Isla el

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d016ece4b0236b68f5314d, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pallid sturgeon free embryo drift and dispersal experiment data from the Upper Missouri River, Montana and North Dakota, 2019

The data set contains sampling data, catch data, and biological data associated with a broad-scale experiment to examine free embryo dispersal and larval settlement of endangered pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) in the Missouri River of eastern Montana and western North Dakota.  On 20190701, two age groups of pallid sturgeon including 771,707 1-day post-hatch (dph) free embryos and 200,786 5-dph free embryos were released in the Missouri River where dispersal in the water column was assessed through 150 miles. Following dispersal, beam trawl sampling of benthic habitats was conducted to verify settlement and quantify the spatial extent of settlement. Trawling was conducted for nine consecutive weeks from 20190716 to 20190911 in eight river bends positioned between river miles 1552.0 and 1591.8.  A tissue sample was obtained from captured larval Scaphirhynchus.  The tissue sample was used in genetic analysis to identify species and identify parentage.  The data set includes sampling location information, benthic trawl catch data for Scaphirhynchus species and other species, genetic results distinguishing Scaphirhynchus species as shovelnose sturgeon or pallid sturgeon, parentage for the pallid sturgeon, and biological data for all species.

Tags: biota, columbia-environmental-research-center, dispersal-organisms, downstream-dispersal, early-life-stage, endangered-species, fish-larvae, fishery-management, fishery-resources, fishes, free-embryo, missouri-river, montana, north-dakota, paddlefish, pallid-sturgeon, shovelnose-sturgeon, usgs-61619873d34e52f49c82289e, yellowstone-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Floodplain forest vegetation cover maps to support effectiveness monitoring of channel and floodplain restoration projects along the Willamette River, Oregon (ver. 1.1, August 2025)

This dataset consists of repeat vegetation cover maps of multiple Willamette River restoration sites where restoration activities were implemented to increase the area of floodplain forests. Beginning in the early 21st century, large-scale restoration programs have been implemented along the Willamette River, Oregon, to address historical losses of floodplain habitats for native fish (Keith and others, 2022). For much of the Willamette River floodplain, direct enhancement of floodplain habitats through restoration activities is needed because the underlying hydrologic, geomorphic, and vegetation processes that historically created and sustained complex floodplain habitats have been fundamentally altered by dam construction, bank protection, large wood removal, land conversion, and other influences (for example, Hulse and others, 2002; Wallick and others, 2013). Floodplain forest vegetation cover was derived from R Random Forest classification of 2009, 2011, 2018, and 2020 aerial imagery at three large-scale floodplain planting restoration sites along the Willamette River: Harkens Lake (river kilometer [RKM] 153-154.5), Snag Boat Bend (RKM 144-147), and Luckiamute State Natural Area (RKM 108-111). The overall goals and approaches for the repeat mapping are based on a previously published effectiveness monitoring framework for Willamette River restoration activities (Keith and others, 2022). The repeat mapping datasets include GIS layers defining two classes of vegetation cover (forest and not-forest, condensed from six cover classes: forest, not-forest (agriculture), not-forest (other), water, shadow in forest, and shadow in non-forested areas). This mapping can be used to support an assessment of changes to floodplain forest vegetation cover at sites along the Willamette River floodplain where restoration activities were implemented from 2012 to 2020 to increase the area of native floodplain forest vegetation.

Tags: aerial-images, aerial-photography, benton-county, effectiveness-monitoring, environment, floodplain-forest, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, harkens-lake, image-analysis, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, lake-creek, lane-county, lidar, luckiamute-river, luckiamute-state-natural-area, marion-county, multispectral-imaging, oregon, randomforest, restoration, snag-boat-bend, usgs-64657d32d34ec11ae4a71dcf, vegetation, vegetation-cover, willamette-river, willamette-valley
Organization: Department of the Interior
AllCases_Sediment_Fluxes: Model Sensitivity to Sediment Parameters and Bed Composition in Delft3D: Model Output

The sensitivity to sediment parameterization and initial bed configuration on sediment transport processes and morphological evolution are assessed through process-based numerical modeling. Six sensitivity cases using a previously validated model for Dauphin Island, Alabama were modeled using Delft3D (developed by Deltares) to understand impacts on bed level morphology, barrier island evolution, and sediment fluxes. Delft3D model output of suspended and bedload sediment fluxes, and final bed levels data are included in this dataset. Model output from six cases (comprised of three sensitivity configurations and two simulation types (deterministic Delft3D, and probabilistic Delft3D mormerge) as forced by 9 climatological wave forcing conditions are included in this data release. All simulations were initialized using the same initial Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with nearshore and island topopbathy dated 2015 (Passeri and others, 2018). Climatological forcing bins were built from a 1979-2020 reanalysis wave record as applied in Jenkins and others, 2020. For further information regarding model input generation, set up, and analysis, refer to Jenkins and others (2020) and Passeri and others (2018).

Tags: bed-level-change, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-processes, dauphin-island, digital-elevation-models, elevation, environment, estuarine-processes, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, hydrodynamics, mobile-bay, modeling, oceans, remediation, sea-level-change, sediment-flux, sediment-parameter, sediment-transport, shorelines, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, state-of-alabama, structure, tides-oceanic, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-0d554ba1-3ca3-4ba5-9058-6d91b72b2886, waves
Organization: Department of the Interior