AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Broad-scale assessment of biophysical features in Colorado: Ecological communities

The "Broad-scale assessment of biophysical features in Colorado: Ecological Communities" raster dataset provides a hierarchical vegetation classification (vegetation type, ecological community, and land cover class) for all lands in Colorado. This dataset is derived primarily from LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Types (LF-EVT) with modifications of specific LF-EVT using ancillary datasets to improve land cover assignments. We used National Gap Analysis Program/LANDFIRE National Terrestrial Ecosystems (GAP/LF), elevation, and playa data to reclassify specific LF-EVT as described in SupplementalMethods.pdf, which is included with this data release. The attribute table for the 30-m raster includes a three-level vegetation classification. The finest level, vegetation type (attribute VegType), corresponds to LF-EVT. The LF-EVT values were retained (values less than 4000) except for modified vegetation types (as indicated by values of greater than 13,000). VegTypes were classified into 27 ecological communities (EcolComm) and 8 altered vegetation types. Ecological communities were classified into six land cover (LandCover) classes.

Tags: biota, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-use-and-land-cover, usgs-5acbec29e4b0e2c2dd13d4e1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Greig Street digital elevation model (DEM) from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Sodus Bay, New York in July 2017 (32-bit floating point GeoTIFF image)

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinity of Sodus Bay, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control points, and transect points; geolocated, RGB-colored point clouds; orthomosaic images; and digital elevation models for each of the survey regions. Collection of these data was supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the State of New York Departments of State and Environmental Conservation, and the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program and was conducted under USGS field activity number 2017-042-FA.

Tags: 3dr-solo-quadcopter, aerial-imagery, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, dem, digital-elevation-model, digital-elevation-models, elevation, federal-emergency-management-agency, field-activity-number-2017-042-fa, geoscientificinformation, geotiff, great-lakes, greig-street, inlandwaters, lake-level, lake-ontario, lakeshore, location, low-altitude-aerial-imagery, new-york, photographs, photos, raster, remote-sensing, ricoh-grii, shoreline, shoreline-photographs, sodus-bay, sodus-ny, sodus-point, state-of-new-york-department-of-environmental-conservation, state-of-new-york-department-of-state, topography, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usa, usgs, usgs-5b1ee156e4b092d965254a4b, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tracklines for CHIRP seismic lines 1-5 collected during USGS GYRE cruise 99002 (L1_5LN.SHP)

This GIS overlay is a component of the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Science Center's, Gulf of Mexico GIS database.  The Gulf of Mexico GIS database is intended to organize and display USGS held data and provide on-line (WWW) access to the data and/or metadata.
A two week cruise aboard the R/V GYRE focused on mapping surficial sedimentary processes and their connection to the subsurface geology.  The study area was on the upper continental slope in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico; an area of active hydrocarbon exploration. Active salt movement, hydrocarbon movement up faults, the presence of gas hydrates associated with biogenic and thermogenic methane, and overpressured sand deposits all present hazards to oil exploration in this area.  This study used sidescan sonar and high-resolution chirp subbottom profiling techniques to map the surficial and shallow subsurface expression of these processes in two areas roughly 15 by 25 km in size.  High-resolution multi-channel seismic-reflection data were collected simultaneously with the sidescan imagery to provide a link to the deeper subsurface. Additional multi-channel and Huntec seismic data were collected along regional lines between the detailed study areas to tie these studies to other areas of known hydrates and to wells where shallow overpressured sands have been drilled.
The detailed studies attempted to map entire geological systems in this upper slope environment to provide a broader perspective than can be seen from studying a single lease block.  One study area focused on two adjacent salt withdrawal basins to assess the processes that are shaping the flanks of the basins, the processes affecting sedimentation in the basin floors, and to compare the deeper structures and surficial processes between the basins.  The second study area focused on three salt domes, the processes associated with them, and how they affect the shallow subsurface stratigraphy. Initial observations suggest that most of the surface and shallow subsurface geohazards are associated with the flanks of salt structures. Here active salt movement generates faults along which hydrocarbons can escape to the seafloor, and tectonic oversteepenning generates slope failures.

Tags: chirp, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continental-slope, datasonics-sis-1000, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gulf-of-mexico, information-archives-field-activity-99002, location, marine-geophysics, navigation, navigational-data, oceans, polyline-shapefile, seg-y, seismic-reflection, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-d4da8976-78b4-4372-80a5-583b9f513a6e, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data from Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, Nevada County, California, 2014-17

High-resolution, terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), was used to quantify the volume of sediment eroded from outcrops at Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, located about 17 kilometers (km) northeast of Grass Valley, California. TLS was used to create centimeter-scale, three-dimensional (3-D) maps of the complex outcrop surfaces, which could not be mapped non-destructively or in sufficient detail with traditional surveying techniques.
To develop a comprehensive sediment budget for the Malakoff Diggins mine pit that will help identify sources of sediment and metals within the pit that comprise the suspended sediment discharged from the pit into Humbug Creek, the USGS used TLS technology to quantify the eroded volumes and erosion rates of sedimentary units exposed in the pit walls. Eroded volumes from nineteen sedimentary units at four study sites located throughout the pit were calculated for the period December 2014 to August 2017. (Note that the monitoring sites were numbered 1, 2, 4, and 5.)
Each survey at all four study sites was comprised of multiple lidar scans collected from different vantages that were combined into a composite 3-D point cloud. At all four study sites, the sequential surveys were co-registered or ‘aligned’ into a common and site-specific reference frame so that volumetric comparisons between surveys could be made. At each study site, sedimentary units were differentiated based on grain size, color, compaction, cementation, and slope angle. The various sedimentary units were mapped on the lidar point clouds and individually isolated for volumetric change analysis. The volumetric differences between surveys quantify the erosional and/or depositional volume change of each sedimentary unit.

Tags: humbug-creek, malakoff-diggins-state-historic-park, nevada-county-california, sediment-erosion, terrestrial-laser-scanning-tls, usgs-5d1cf22de4b0941bde64ce0c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Attributes for MRB_E2RF1 Catchments by Major River Basins  in the Conterminous United States: Average Atmospheric (Wet) Deposition of Inorganic Nitrogen, 2002

This tabular data set represents the average atmospheric (wet) deposition, in kilograms per square kilometer, of inorganic 
nitrogen for the year 2002 compiled for every catchment for MRB_E2RF1 of Major River Basins (MRBs, Crawford and 
others, 2006). The source data set for wet deposition was from the USGS's raster data set atmospheric (wet) deposition 
of inorganic nitrogen for 2002 (Gronberg, 2005).
		
The MRB_E2RF1 catchments are based on a modified version of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) 
ERF1_2 and include enhancements to support national and regional-scale surface-water quality modeling (Nolan and 
others, 2002; Brakebill and others, 2011).
		
Data were compiled for every catchment of MRB_E2RF1 catchments for the conterminous United States covering New 
England and Mid-Atlantic (MRB1), South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee (MRB2), the Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, 
and Souris-Red-Rainy (MRB3), the Missouri (MRB4), the Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf (MRB5), 
the Rio Grande, Colorado, and the Great basin (MRB6), the Pacific Northwest (MRB7) river basins, and California (MRB8).

Tags: cali, california, catchment, cogb, conterminous-united-states, environment, geoscientificinformation, glmr, great-lakes-ohio-upper-mississippi-and-souris-red-rainy, inlandwaters, inorganic-nitrogen, lmtg, lower-mississippi-arkansas-white-red-and-texas-gulf, major-river-basins, missouri, mori, mrb, mrb1, mrb2, mrb3, mrb4, mrb5, mrb6, mrb7, mrb8, mrb_e2rf1, mrb_e2rf1ws, nawqa, nema, new-england-and-mid-atlantic, pacific-northwest, panw, rio-grande-colorado-and-great-basin, sagt, south-atlantic-gulf-and-tennessee, sparrow, usgs-9d1e336c-62fe-403e-9cd0-99670e386b02
Organization: Department of the Interior
qPCR detection and quantitative results for Northern Pike (Esox lucius) from environmental (e)DNA samples collected along Miller Creek, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska in February and March of 2024

The dataset contains qualitative detection and quantitative results of Esox Lucius DNA in environmental (e)DNA water samples collected from Miller Creek, Alaska, and analyzed with quantitative PCR.The dataset contains qualitative detection and quantitative results of Esox Lucius DNA in environmental (e)DNA water samples collected from Miller Creek, Alaska, and analyzed with quantitative PCR.

Tags: biota, environmental-dna, usgs-65fcad62d34e64ff1548d6a0
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021 Site 0616 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. 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 six land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021).  The resulting matrix has 64 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those six dates.

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-6569ff9cd34e6dde1a4ae2e1, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Site 0551 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring to determine the efficacy of these projects. 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 five land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, YYYY and 2018).  The resulting matrix has 32 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those five dates.

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-611f139bd34e40dd9c01d219, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 0589 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 2018 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. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). 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-611d2c7dd34e40dd9c012a30, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Soil surface elevation change data from rod surface elevation tables (rSET) from mangrove forests at Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, Florida (2018-2022)

This study monitored soil surface elevation change from mangrove forests fertilized with nitrogen and phosphorus from 2018-2021. The mangroves selected at Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) have been previously exposed to high nutrient loading from agricultural discharge into the Caloosahatchee River, which elevated soil phosphorus levels to 3-4 times ambient before treatments were impose. Sea-level rise vulnerability with additional nitrogen and phosphorus is a concern for these mangrove ecosystems.

Tags: biota, florida, gulf-of-mexico, mangrove, sanibel-island, sea-level-rise, surface-elevation-tables-set, usgs-6478a8e1d34eac007b50e6af
Organization: Department of the Interior
Database collating previous laboratory investigations into the pathogenesis of avian influenza viruses in wild avifauna of North America (ver. 2.0, August 2024)

A compilation of previously published results exploring the pathogenesis of avian influenza viruses in wild avian species in North America.

Tags: avian-influenza, biota, usgs-65eb3b41d34e14033297dbe2
Organization: Department of the Interior
Elevation contours of beach topography and nearshore bathymetry of Lake Superior at Minnesota Point near the Duluth Entry, Duluth, MN,  August 2022

The elevation contours in this dataset have a 2-foot (ft) interval and were derived from a digital elevation model (DEM) of beach topography and nearshore bathymetry of Lake Superior at Minnesota Point, Duluth, Minnesota. The DEM has a 1 meter (m; 3.28084 ft) cell size and was created from Lidar data representing beach topography and sonar data representing bathymetry extending approximately 700-800 m offshore. The data cover an approximately 1.75 square kilometer survey area. Lidar data were collected August 22, 2022 using a boat mounted Velodyne VLP-16 unit and methodology similar to that described by Huizinga and Wagner (2019). Multibeam sonar data were collected August 22-23, 2022 using a Norbit integrated wide band multibeam system compact (iWBMSc) sonar unit and methodology similar to that described by Richards and Huizinga (2018). Single-beam sonar data were collected August 23, 2022 using a Ceescope echosounder and methodology similar to that described by Wilson and Richards (2006).This project followed similar methods to that of Wagner, Lund, and Sanks (2020), who completed a similar survey in 2019.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, dem, digital-elevation-models, duluth, elevation, great-lakes, hydroacoustic, inlandwaters, lake-superior, las, lidar, limnology, sonar, southwestern-lake-superior, superior, usgs-64b53b04d34e70357a2adc5a, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
2014 East Coast Rhode Island NOAA/NGS ATM Lidar-Derived Dune Crest, Toe and Shoreline, post-Hurricane Sandy

The Storm-Induced Coastal Change Hazards component of the National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards project focuses on understanding the magnitude and variability of extreme storm impacts on sandy beaches. Lidar-derived beach morphologic features such as dune crest, toe and shoreline help define the vulnerability of the beach to storm impacts. This dataset defines the elevation and position of the seaward-most dune crest and toe and the mean high water shoreline derived from the 2014 East Coast Rhode Island NOAA/NGS ATM lidar survey, post-Hurricane Sandy. Beach width is included and is defined as the distance between the dune toe and shoreline along a cross-shore profile. The beach slope is calculated using this beach width and the elevation of the shoreline and dune toe.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, elevation, environment, geoscientificinformation, hazards, marine-geology, ocean-sciences, oceans, rhode-island, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-d0ced142-25d2-427f-bc98-b0a9e74800d1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Gridded earthquake ground motions for the 2023 AASHTO Design Specifications

For designing bridges to safely resist earthquakes, the 2023 editions of the AASHTO (1) Guide Specifications for LRFD Seismic Bridge Design, (2) LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, and (3) Guide Specifications for Seismic Isolation Design provide risk-targeted design ground motions via this data release and the corresponding USGS Seismic Design Web Services. The web services spatially interpolate the gridded ground motions of this data release for user-specified latitudes and longitudes. The attached files below for 8 site classes each provide risk-targeted spectral accelerations (in units of g) for a grid of latitudes and longitudes and 22 spectral periods, including 0.0 seconds for peak ground acceleration (denoted SA0P0). The spectral accelerations for Site Class BC and spectral periods of 0.0, 0.2, and 1.0 seconds were directly derived from the USGS seismic hazard curves released in the "Associated Item"; from these three values, the spectral accelerations for the other site classes and spectral periods were derived indirectly via the FEMA P-2078 "Procedures for Developing Multi-Period Response Spectra at Non-Conterminous United States Sites," because corresponding USGS hazard curves were not yet available for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Tags: earthquakes, engineering-sciences, guam, hazards, northern-mariana-islands, seismology, standards, usgs-624afe86d34e21f827635bb7
Organization: Department of the Interior
5year_R1_elevation: Modeling the impacts of sand placement strategies on barrier island evolution in a semi-enclosed bay system: model input and results

Using the Delft3D 4 Suite (Lesser and others, 2004), sediment transport and morphologic change was simulated at Little Dauphin Island, Alabama (AL) for 5-year simulations of restoration alternatives as described in Passeri and others (2025). The two-dimensional Delft3D model can be applied to coastal systems to solve for time-dependent bed level elevations. The Delft3D model setup requires the input of bathymetric elevations at each grid cell. Model inputs and outputs in the form of elevation at each grid cell are provided in this data release. For further information regarding model input generation and visualization of model output, refer to Passeri and others (2025).

Tags: alabama, bathymetry, coastal-processes, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, little-dauphin-island, north-america, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, storm-surge, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-6f5f0971-0242-4cfa-b27a-98d71b2b79ec
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial Tools Effectively Estimate Nonexceedance Probabilities of Daily Streamflow at Ungauged and Intermittently Gauged Locations in Ohio: Data Release

This data set archives all inputs, outputs and scripts needed to reproduce the findings of W.H. Farmer and G.F. Koltun in the 2017 Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies article entitled “Geospatial Tools Effectively Estimated Nonexceedance Probabilities of Daily Streamflow at Ungauged and Intermittently Gauged Locations in Ohio”.  Input data includes observed streamflow values, in cubic feet per second, for 152 streamgages in and around Ohio from 01 January 2009 through 31 August 2015.  Data from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency on where and when water quality samples were taken are also provided.  Geospatial locations are provided for all streamgages and sampling sites considered.  ESRI ArcGIS shapefiles are available for all maps produced in the original publication.  Comma-separated-value files contain the output data required to reproduce every figure in the report.  This archive also includes an R script capable of reading the input files and producing output files and figures.  See the README.txt file for a full description of model application.

Tags: columbus, kriging, mathematical-modeling, ohio, spatial-analysis, streamflow, united-states, usgs-5935a841e4b06a58eb67563a
Organization: Department of the Interior