AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Thermal image time series from the Blue River, Colorado, October 18, 2018

The U.S. Geological Survey contracted with Juniper Unmanned to conduct field tests of the Infrared Cameras Inc. (ICI) Mirage camera on the Blue River just upstream of its confluence with the Colorado River near Kremmling, Colorado, on October 18, 2018. The objective of this project was to assess the potential to infer surface flow velocities in rivers by applying a particle image velocimetry (PIV) algorithm to aerial thermal infrared image time series collected from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The ICI Mirage (3-5 µm thermal IR) and a Sony DSC QX-30 (natural color) cameras were mounted on a Gremsy H7 gimbal, integrated with the ICI sensor control module (SCM), and mounted to a DJI Matrice 600 Pro UAS owned and operated by Juniper Unmanned. The SCM includes a Micro SD card to store the image data. At the instant each thermal or natural color image was acquired, the time, position, elevation, and orientation with respect to magnetic north was written to the image file as part of the EXIF header.   
On October 18, 2018, operations began at civil twilight, approximately 6:50 AM MDT, with the first flights occurring about the same time (per EXIF information). The sky was cloudy, and no wind was apparent at the field site. The temperature of the air was approximately 27° Fahrenheit (-2.8° C) and no wind was measured at the Mc Elroy airfield (K20V) at 7AM.  This data release includes images from hovering collections at two locations (waypoints) in the study area, each approximately 1 minute in duration. The waypoints were loaded in the UgCS software. At one of these waypoints the entire width of the river could not be captured at the maximum flight altitude permitted (~400 ft Above Ground Level) so the images do not include both banks of the channel.  
The data are provided as zip files with image sequences, one for each of the two cross-sections on the Blue River. 
The U.S. Geological Survey has an ongoing research interest in developing and testing innovative technologies for remote sensing of surface flow velocities  as one component of an integrated approach to non-contact measurement of river discharge.

Tags: blue-river, co, colorado, particle-image-velocimetry-piv, remote-sensing, river-discharge, suas, surface-flow-velocity, thermal-image, uas, unmanned-aircraft-system, usa, usgs-5ccc6d0ee4b09b8c0b7987b2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetric lidar data from the Blue River, Colorado, October 18, 2018

The U.S. Geological Survey contracted with Juniper Unmanned to conduct field tests of the ASTRALiTe bathymetric lidar system on the Blue River just upstream of its confluence with the Colorado River near Kremmling, Colorado, on October 18, 2018. The objective of this project was to assess the potential to map river bathymetry (i.e., channel bed topography) using lidar data collected from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The ASTRALiTe lidar instrument was mounted on a DJI Matrice 600 Pro UAS owned and operated by Juniper Unmanned. As part of the study, Juniper's pilot flew the ASTRALiTe instrument across 2 river transects (cross-stream) on the Blue River. This data release includes data delivered to the USGS by ASTRALite on November 15, 2018.  The data have been parsed into separate text files for bare earth (i.e., river bed) and water surface returns for each cross-section but have not been filtered or modified in any other way.

Tags: bathymetric-lidar, bathymetry, blue-river, co, colorado, depth, remote-sensing, river-discharge, suas, uas, unmanned-aircraft-system, usa, usgs-5ccc6ce2e4b09b8c0b79878d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thermal infrared, multispectral, and photogrammetric data collected by drone for hydrogeologic analysis of the East River beaver-impacted corridor near Crested Butte, Colorado

This page provides access to infrared, multispectral, visual image data, and derivative products collected along a beaver-impacted section of the East River from August 12-17, 2017 and July 28-August 2, 2018. This page may be updated in the future with additional data and analysis related to drone-based imaging.

Tags: aerial-photography, colorado, drone, east-river-and-coal-creek, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, gunnison-county, gunnison-national-forest, hydrogeology, hydrology, image-collections, inlandwaters, remote-sensing, seepage, surface-water, surface-water-non-marine, thermal-imaging, uas, unmanned-aircraft-system, unoccupied-aircraft-system, usgs-5ccc4cc9e4b09b8c0b78c97a, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
U and Th isotope data for "Establishing chronologies for alluvial-fan sequences with analysis of high-resolution topographic data: San Luis Valley, Colorado, USA"

This dataset includes tables of U- and Th-isotopic data used to calculate uranium-series age estimates (230Th/U method) and initial 234U/238U activity ratios for samples of pedogenic carbonate formed in soils on alluvial fans in the San Luis Valley, Colorado, USA.

Tags: colorado, geochronology, holocene, isotope-analysis, pleistocene, radiometric-dating, saguache-county, san-luis-valley, usgs-5ccb6426e4b09b8c0b780907, zapata-falls-campground
Organization: Department of the Interior
Photogrammetric data collected by drone for hydrogeologic analysis of the Coal Creek beaver-impacted corridor near Crested Butte, Colorado

This page provides access to visual image data and derivative products collected along a beaver-impacted section of Coal Creek on July 31 of 2018. This page may be updated in the future with additional data and analysis related to drone-based imaging.

Tags: aerial-photography, colorado, drone, east-river-and-coal-creek, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, gunnison-county, gunnison-national-forest, hydrogeology, hydrology, image-collections, inlandwaters, remote-sensing, seepage, surface-water, surface-water-non-marine, uas, unmanned-aircraft-system, unoccupied-aircraft-system, usgs-5ccb4bc4e4b09b8c0b7808ae, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
The Sagebrush Biome Range Extent, as Derived from Classified Landsat Imagery

This feature estimates the geographic extent of the sagebrush biome in the United States. It was created for the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agency’s (WAFWA) Sagebrush Conservation Strategy publication as a visual for the schematic figures. This layer does not represent the realized distribution of sagebrush and should not be used to summarize statistics about the distribution or precise location of sagebrush across the landscape. This layer is intended to generalize the sagebrush biome distribution using Landsat derived classified vegetation rasters (Rigge at al. 2019), Bureau of Land Management-designated Habitat Management Areas, state-designated Priority Areas for Conservation for sage-grouse, the current range of the Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), Gunnison Sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) and Pygmy Rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis).

Tags: arizona, biogeography, biota, california, colorado, great-basin, idaho, montana, nevada, new-mexico, north-america, north-dakota, oregon, sage, sagebrush, south-dakota, united-states, usgs-5ccb4a64e4b09b8c0b7808a6, utah, washington, western-united-states, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Olive ridley necropsy data for Salmonella study

Salmonella spp. are frequently shed by wildlife including turtles, but S. enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium or lesions associated with Salmonella are rare in turtles.  Between 1996 and 2016, we necropsied 127 apparently healthy pelagic olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) that died from drowning bycatch in fisheries and 44 live or freshly dead stranded turtles from the west coast of North and Central America and Hawaii.  Seven % (9/127) of pelagic and 47% (21/44) of stranded turtles had renal granulomas associated with S. Typhimurium. Stranded animals were 12 times more likely than pelagic animals to have Salmonella-induced nephritis suggesting that Salmonella may have been a contributing cause of stranding.  S. Typhimurium was the only Salmonella serovar detected in L. olivacea, and phylogenetic analysis from whole genome sequencing showed that the isolates from L. olivacea formed a single clade distinct from other S. Typhimurium.  Molecular clock analysis revealed that this novel clade may have originated as recently as a few decades ago.  The phylogenetic lineage leading to this group is enriched for non-synonymous changes within the genomic area of Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 suggesting that these genes are important for host adaptation.

Tags: farming, olive-ridley-turtle, salmonella, usgs-5ccb35dee4b09b8c0b780835
Organization: Department of the Interior
Waihou Mitigation Area, Maui Island, bat acoustic activity, diet and prey availability, 2015 to 2018

Habitat use, diet, prey availability and foraging ecology of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus semotus, Vespertilionidae) were examined in the east Maui region inclusive of the Waihou Mitigation Area, Pu‘u Makua Restoration Area and the wind power facility operated by Auwahi Wind Energy, LLC. The study was conducted to inform the mitigation and management requirements of Auwahi Wind Energy, and fulfill requirements for mitigating bat fatalities under its approved incidental take permit. Acoustic monitoring over the three-year period demonstrated that bats are present and actively feed year-round at the Waihou Mitigation Area. This study included the first genetic analysis of Hawaiian hoary bat diet items, and broadly confirms the major arthropod orders (Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, and Blattodea) found in previous microscopy-based studies of guano samples.

Tags: acoustic-activity, biota, diet, habitat-restoration, hawaii-usa, hawaiian-hoary-bat, insect-prey-availability, metabarcoding, usgs-5cca58b1e4b09b8c0b78009f, waihou-maui
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hurricane Harvey — A Damage Assessment of Texas’ Central Gulf Coast

This data set serves as a damage scale that was created to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. The damage scale ranges from 1 (undamaged) to 5 (total structure collapse, destroyed). A score of 1 was given to structures that had no damage, a score of 2 was given to structures with minor damage, a score of 3 was given to structures with moderate damage, a score of 4 was given to structures with severe damage, and a score of 5 was given to structures that were destroyed. To account for the variety and complexity of damage observed, half-point increments (for example, 4.5) are included and outlined in the data set. Types of structures that can be scored are residential structures which included one-story, multi-story, stilt, modified-stilt, apartment, and mobile homes. A modified-stilt structure is one which is built on stilts, but contains some type of obstruction, such as a garage underneath the main living area. Commercial structures scored included: restaurants, gas stations, churches, general businesses, and hotels. Public structures scored included: schools, libraries, or recreational structures. Other includes fences, mature trees, utility poles, detached garages, and sheds (constructed either of sheet metal or wood).

Tags: damage-survey, hurricanes, usgs-5cca0970e4b09b8c0b77fccf
Organization: Department of the Interior
State-and-Transition Simulation Model of Buffelgrass in Saguaro National Park (2014-2044)

This is a spatially-explicit state-and-transition simulation model of buffelgrass dynamics in Saguaro National Park. Buffelgrass is an invasive grass spreading in the park. The model represents uninvaded and invaded parts of the desert ecosystem including transition pathways related to management activities and includes a connection to a fire behavior model. The model was built using the ST-Sim software platform linked to the FARSITE fire behavior model. The St-SIM file structure includes three components: 1) Buffelgrass.ssim.input folder that houses the input files used by St-SIM, 2) the Buffelgrass.ssim.output folder which houses the scenario outputs used by St-SIM for visualization and export of data, and 3) Buffelgrass.ssim file which is opened by St-SIM to provide an interface to the model and outputs.  This study contains four model scenarios and their associated outputs. This particular database includes model scenarios for the Rincon Mountain District (RMD) of Saguaro National Park with fire.From http://wiki.syncrosim.com/index.php?title=Main_Page: ST-Sim allows users to develop and run spatially-explicit, stochastic state-and-transition simulation models (STSMs) of vegetation change, and is designed to simulate and compare possible vegetation conditions across a landscape over time by considering the interaction between succession, disturbances and management. ST-Sim is the latest in a 20-year lineage of STSM development tools that includes the Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT), the Tool for Exploratory Landscape Scenario Analysis (TELSA), and the Path Landscape Model (Path). ST-Sim is intended as an upgrade to Path: in addition to all of the previous Path features, ST-Sim also provides a new option to run raster-based, spatially-explicit simulations.

Tags: arizona, biota, buffelgrass, fire, invasive-species, saguaro-national-park, state-and-transition-simulation-model, usgs-5cc9f99fe4b09b8c0b77fc75
Organization: Department of the Interior
van Genuchten parameters for soil in the area impacted by the 2017 Thomas Fire in California, USA

This Data Release summarizes measurements of hydraulic and physical properties of soils and ash at sites in the area impacted by the 2017 Thomas Fire, USA. Physical properties include dry bulk density, loss on ignition, and saturated soil water content. Hydraulic properties include field-saturated hydraulic conductivity, sorptivity, Green-Ampt wetting front potential, and soil water retention. These measurements provide a foundation to reduce uncertainty of parameters in hydrologic models used to predict water-related hazards, water quality, and water quantity. Note that all methods of data acquisition and processing, column headings, and data annotations are explained in the metadata files.

Tags: california, hydraulic-properties, santa-barbara-county, soil-properties, thomas-fire, usgs-5cc9e58de4b09b8c0b77fc24, ventura-county, wildfire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Soil-water retention in the area impacted by the 2017 Thomas Fire in California, USA

This Data Release summarizes measurements of hydraulic and physical properties of soils and ash at sites in the area impacted by the 2017 Thomas Fire, USA. Physical properties include dry bulk density, loss on ignition, and saturated soil water content. Hydraulic properties include field-saturated hydraulic conductivity, sorptivity, Green-Ampt wetting front potential, and soil water retention. These measurements provide a foundation to reduce uncertainty of parameters in hydrologic models used to predict water-related hazards, water quality, and water quantity. Note that all methods of data acquisition and processing, column headings, and data annotations are explained in the metadata files.

Tags: california, hydraulic-properties, santa-barbara-county, soil-properties, thomas-fire, usgs-5cc9e36be4b09b8c0b77fc03, ventura-county, wildfire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Soil-hydraulic properties in the area impacted by the 2017 Thomas Fire in California, USA

This Data Release summarizes measurements of hydraulic and physical properties of soils and ash at sites in the area impacted by the 2017 Thomas Fire, USA. Physical properties include dry bulk density, loss on ignition, and saturated soil water content. Hydraulic properties include field-saturated hydraulic conductivity, sorptivity, Green-Ampt wetting front potential, and soil water retention. These measurements provide a foundation to reduce uncertainty of parameters in hydrologic models used to predict water-related hazards, water quality, and water quantity. Note that all methods of data acquisition and processing, column headings, and data annotations are explained in the metadata files.

Tags: california, hydraulic-properties, santa-barbara-county, soil-properties, thomas-fire, usgs-5cc9e2abe4b09b8c0b77fbf3, ventura-county, wildfire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bulk density of soil in the area impacted by the 2017 Thomas Fire in California, USA

This Data Release summarizes measurements of hydraulic and physical properties of soils and ash at sites in the area impacted by the 2017 Thomas Fire, USA. Physical properties include dry bulk density, loss on ignition, and saturated soil water content. Hydraulic properties include field-saturated hydraulic conductivity, sorptivity, Green-Ampt wetting front potential, and soil water retention. These measurements provide a foundation to reduce uncertainty of parameters in hydrologic models used to predict water-related hazards, water quality, and water quantity. 
Note that all methods of data acquisition and processing, column headings, and data annotations are explained in the metadata files.

Tags: california, hydraulic-properties, santa-barbara-county, soil-properties, thomas-fire, usgs-5cc9e03de4b09b8c0b77fbc8, ventura-county, wildfire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pedestrian tsunami evacuation results for three California probabilistic tsunami hazard zones and four travel speeds (shapefiles) and impaired walk travel times for all zones by parcel land-use and flow depth class (tables)

These datasets supports the conclusions in the journal article entitled "Variations in community evacuation potential related to average return periods in probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis" as described in the abstract below:
Tsunami risk management requires strategies that can address multiple sources with different recurrence intervals, wave-arrival times, and inundation extents. Probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis (PTHA) provides a structured way to integrate multiple sources, including the uncertainties due to the natural variability and limited knowledge of sources. PTHA-based products relate to specific average return periods (ARP) and while there has been considerable attention paid to ARP choice for building codes, guidance on ARP choice to support evacuation planning and related land-use is lacking. We use the State of California (USA) coastal communities as a case study to explore the use of geospatial analysis and pedestrian-evacuation modeling for comparing the societal implications of tsunamis based on evacuation areas that reflect 475-year, 975-year, and 2,475-year ARPs. Results demonstrate that changes in PTHA ARP had a substantial effect on the number of taxlot parcels in tsunami evacuation areas, but not on the primary land-use of these parcels or which communities had the highest number of exposed parcels. Composite PTHA maps provided high-level insights on hazard exposure and identified dominant sources; however, disaggregated PTHA outputs that reflect single source parameters (e.g., wave-arrival time) were necessary to quantify evacuation potential from local and distant tsunamis. Framing changes in ARP assumption based on changes in the number, land-use type, and potential evacuation challenges of parcels in evacuation areas can provide valuable insight on the real-world implications of which ARP to use in land-use or evacuation planning.

Tags: alameda-county, california, contra-costa-county, del-norte-county, evacuation, humboldt-county, los-angeles-county, marin-county, mendocino-county, modeling, monterey-county, napa-county, orange-county, pedestrian, probabilistic, san-diego-county, san-francisco-county, san-luis-obispo-county, san-mateo-county, santa-barbara-county, santa-clara-county, santa-cruz-county, solano-county, sonoma-county, tsunami, usgs-5cc9dd5fe4b09b8c0b77fb8e, ventura-county, vulnerability
Organization: Department of the Interior
Report to NECSC: Adaptive capacity in a forest indicator species

Data contain metabolic rates of red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) exposed to different thermal regimes, and the movements of salamanders marked with PIT tags and exposed to electromagnetic fields.

Tags: adaptive-capacity, behavioral-plasticity, massachusetts, new-york, pennsylvania, salamander, usgs-5cc9d795e4b09b8c0b77fb43, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
USGS National and GLobal Oil and Gas Assessment Project-Eromanga Basin Province, Australia, Cooper Basin Conventional Assessment Unit Boundaries and Input Data Forms

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units and input data for the assessment of the Eromanga Basin Province, Australia, Cooper Basin Continuous Assessment Unit Boundaries. The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System. The Assessment Unit is shown herein as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum System, such as source rock, timing, migration pathways, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type. The Assessment Unit boundary is defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the Assessment Unit, such as limits of reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies. This data release also contains input data forms. The input data is formatted in a human-readable format used during assessment meetings and is included. Documentation for these csv files is included (Input Forms Column Descriptions.xlsx). Methodology of assessments are documented in USGS Data Series 547 for continuous assessments (https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/547) and USGS DDS69-D, Chapter 21 for conventional assessments (https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-d/REPORTS/69_D_CH_21.pdf).

Tags: assessment-unit, australia, continuous-assessment-unit, conventional-assessment-unit, cooper-basin, earth-science, energy-resources, eromanga-basin, eromanga-basin-province, geology, geoscientificinformation, greater-nappamerri-trough-permian-conventional-reservoirs-au, greater-patchawarra-trough-permian-conventional-reservoirs-au, national-and-global-assessment-of-oil-and-gas, natural-gas, natural-gas-resources, natural-resources, north-eromanga-basin-mesozoic-conventional-reservoirs-au, oil, oil-resources, oilgas, petroleum, queensland-troughs-permian-conventional-reservoirs-au, resource-assessment, south-eromanga-basin-mesozoic-conventional-reservoirs-au, u-s-geological-survey, unconventional-assessment-unit, usgs, usgs-5cc9b58be4b09b8c0b77f9d4, usgs-world-energy-region-3, we2000
Organization: Department of the Interior
Georeferenced Maps of the Thickness of the Sparta Aquifer in MS, AR, and LA, 1961 to 1996

The Sparta aquifer is a primary source of groundwater in north-central Louisiana. In 2015, more than 60 million gallons per day were withdrawn from the Sparta aquifer, of which over 90 percent was used for public supply and industrial purposes (Collier, 2018). Concentrated withdrawals from the Sparta aquifer have caused regional water-level declines within the Sparta aquifer (McGee and Brantly, 2015). Widespread concern about the potential effects of declining water levels has brought forth many questions regarding the sustainability of the aquifer as well as continued saltwater intrusion.

Tags: altitude, arkansas, downdip-limit, groundwater, louisiana, mississippi, mississippi-embayment, sparta-aquifer, sparta-sand, structure-contour, usgs-5cc8cab4e4b09b8c0b77f3a3, western-extent
Organization: Department of the Interior