AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Braided Reach Cross-Section Monitoring Surveys, Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho, 2011

In 2009, the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho released and implemented the Kootenai River 
Habitat Restoration Master Plan. This plan aimed to restore, enhance, and maintain 
the Kootenai River habitat and landscape to support and sustain habitat conditions 
for aquatic species and animal populations. In support of these restoration efforts, 
the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, 
conducted high-resolution multibeam echosounder bathymetric surveys in May, 
June, and July 2011, as a baseline bathymetric monitoring survey on the Kootenai 
River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Three channel patterns or reaches exist in the 
study area—braided, meander, and a transitional zone connecting the braided 
and meander reaches. Bathymetric data were collected at three study areas in 
2011 to provide: (1) surveys in unmapped portions of the meander reach; 
(2) monitoring of the presence and extent of sand along planned lines within 
a section of the meander reach; and (3) monitoring aggradation and degradation 
of the channel bed at specific cross sections within the braided reach and 
transitional zone. The bathymetric data will be used to update and verify flow 
models, calibrate and verify sediment transport modeling efforts, and aid in the 
biological assessment in support of the Kootenai River Habitat Restoration Master 
Plan. The data and planned lines for each study reach were produced in ASCII XYZ 
format supported by most geospatial software.

Tags: ascii, bathymetry, bonners-ferry, capacity, elevation, geology, hypack, hysweep, id, idaho, inland-waters, inlandwaters, islands, kootenai-river, lakes, lidar, multibeam, swath-bathymetry, topography, u-s-geological-survey, usa, usgs, usgs-cce3ff67-df5b-433f-825d-0f860c84a33a, water-depth, xyz
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Map Of Base of Aquifer for High Plains Aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming

This data set consists of digital base of aquifer elevation
contours for the High Plains aquifer in the central United
States.  The High Plains aquifer extends from south of 32
degrees to almost 44 degrees north latitude and from 96 degrees
30 minutes to almost 104 degrees west longitude.  The outcrop
area covers 174,000 square miles and is present in Colorado,
Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and
Wyoming.
		
This digital data set was created by digitizing the base of
aquifer elevation contours from a 1:1,000,000 base map created
by the U.S. Geological Survey High Plains RASA project
(Gutentag, E.D., Heimes, F.J., Krothe, N.C., Luckey, R.R., and
Weeks, J.B., 1984, Geohydrology of the High Plains aquifer in
parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South
Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional
Paper 1400-B, 63 p.)  The data should not be used at scales
larger than 1:1,000,000.

Tags: aquifer-boundary, aquifers, environment, geoscientificinformation, great-plains-region, ground-water, groundwater, high-plains, high-plains-aquifer, inlandwaters, ogallala-aquifer, ogallala-formation, usgs-cccb0a25-4594-459d-8c47-b294b11bf9ed, western-u-s
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital data sets that describe aquifer characteristics of the Elk City aquifer in western Oklahoma

This data set consists of digitized aquifer boundaries for the
Elk City aquifer in western Oklahoma. The aquifer covers an area
of approximately 193,000 acres and supplies ground water for
irrigation, domestic, and industrial purposes in Beckham,
Custer, Roger Mills, and Washita Counties along the divide
between the Washita and Red River basins.
		
The Elk City aquifer consists of the Elk City Sandstone and
overlying terrace deposits, made up of clay, silt, sand and
gravel, and dune sands in the eastern part and sand and gravel
of the Ogallala Formation (or High Plains aquifer) in the
western part of the aquifer. The Elk City aquifer is unconfined
and composed of very friable sandstone, lightly cemented with
clay, calcite, gypsum, or iron oxide. Most of the grains are
fine-sized quartz but the grain size ranges from clay to cobble
in the aquifer. The Doxey Shale underlies the Elk City aquifer
and acts as a confining unit, restricting the downward movement
of ground water.
		
The aquifer boundaries were digitized from a photocopy of a
paper map from a ground-water modeling thesis of Elk City
aquifer published at a scale of 1:63,360.

Tags: aquifer-boundary, aquifers, doxey-shale, dune-sand, elk-city-aquifer, elk-city-sandstone, elk-city-sandstone-aquifer, environment, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, ground-water-vulnerability, groundwater, groundwater-vulnerability, high-plains-aquifer, inlandwaters, ogallala-aquifer, ogallala-formation, terrace-deposits, usgs-cca56ed6-8fd3-439f-b5b6-dbef14d402bc
Organization: Department of the Interior
ATLANTIC - Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: A Preliminary Database for the U.S. Atlantic Coast

The goal of this project is to provide a preliminary overview, at a National scale, the relative susceptibility of the Nation's coast to sea-level rise through the use of a coastal vulnerability index (CVI). This initial classification is based upon the variables geomorphology, regional coastal slope, tide range, wave height, relative sea-level rise and shoreline erosion and accretion rates. The combination of these variables and the association of these variables to each other furnish a broad overview of regions where physical changes are likely to occur due to sea-level rise.

Tags: atlantic-coast, beach, beach-erosion, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-geomorphology, coastal-hazards, coastal-processes, connecticut, east-coast, elevation, environment, erosion, florida, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hazards, maine, maryland, massachusetts, new-hampshire, new-jersey, new-york, north-america, north-carolina, oceans, rhode-island, sea-level, sea-level-change, sea-level-rise, shapefile-polygon, shoreline, shoreline-change, slope, south-carolina, tide-range, u-s-atlantic-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usa, usgs, usgs-cd752620-7439-4c5c-aeb1-b1aad3c86fbc, virginia, wave-height, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
BITH2014_MenardCreekCorridorUnit_EAARLB_BE_z15_n88g12A_mosaic_metadata: EAARL-B Topography-Big Thicket National Preserve: Menard Creek Corridor Unit, Texas, 2014

A bare-earth topography Digital Elevation Model (DEM) mosaic for the Menard Corridor Unit of Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas was produced from remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements collected on January 21 and 22, 2014 by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Park Service - Gulf Coast Network. Elevation measurements were collected over the area using the second-generation Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL-B), a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure ground elevation, vegetation canopy, and coastal topography. The system uses high-frequency laser beams directed at the Earth's surface through an opening in the bottom of the aircraft's fuselage. The laser system records the time difference between emission of the laser beam and the reception of the reflected laser signal in the aircraft. The plane travels over the target area at approximately 55 meters per second at an elevation of approximately 300 meters, resulting in a laser swath of approximately 240 meters with an average point density of 1.4 points per square meter. A peak sampling rate of 15-30 kilohertz results in an extremely dense spatial elevation dataset. More than 100 kilometers of coastline can be surveyed easily within a 3- to 4-hour mission. When resultant elevation maps for an area are analyzed, they provide a useful tool to make management decisions regarding land development.

Tags: airborne-lidar-processing-system, alps, altimetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, big-thicket-national-preserve, cessna-310, dem, digital-elevation-model, digital-elevation-models, distributions, doi-usgs-cmg-gt-coastal-and-marine-geology-u-s-geological-survey-u-s-department-of-interior, eaarl-b, elevation, experimental-advanced-airborne-research-lidar, hardin-county, land-surface-gt-topography-gt-terrain-elevation, laser-altimetry, liberty-county, lidar, lidar-gt-light-detection-and-ranging, menard-creek-corridor-unit, polk-county, remote-sensing, texas, topographic-mapping, topography, usgs-cc9fc64a-f40f-4af0-a571-873ed5d11759
Organization: Department of the Interior
Percentage of time sediment is mobile for May, 2010 - May, 2011 at select points in the Gulf of Maine south into the Middle Atlantic Bight (GMAINE_mobile_perc.SHP, Geographic, WGS 84)

The U.S. Geological Survey has been characterizing the regional variation in shear stress on the sea floor and sediment mobility through statistical descriptors.  The purpose of this project is to identify patterns in stress in order to inform habitat delineation or decisions for anthropogenic use of the continental shelf.  The statistical characterization spans the continental shelf from the coast to approximately 120 m water depth, at approximately 0.03 degree (2.5-3.75 km, depending on latitude) resolution.  Time-series of wave and circulation are created using numerical models, and near-bottom output of steady and oscillatory velocities and an estimate of bottom roughness are used to calculate a time-series of bottom shear stress at 1-hour intervals.  Statistical descriptions such as the median and 95th percentile, which are the output included with this database, are then calculated to create a two-dimensional picture of the regional patterns in shear stress.  In addition, time-series of stress are compared to critical stress values at select points calculated from observed surface sediment texture data to determine estimates of sea floor mobility.

Tags: alteration-of-benthic-habitats, atlantic-ocean, bottom-shear-stress, cmgp, cmhrp, cmsp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-and-marine-spatial-planning, continental-island-shelf, current, fvcom, georges-bank, geoscientificinformation, grant-madsen, gulf-of-maine, gulf-of-maine-bay-of-fundy-ecoregion, habitat-alteration-and-disturbance, hudson-shelf-valley, long-island, long-island-sound, marine-nearshore-subtidal, marine-offshore-subtidal, massachusetts-bay, mathematical-modeling, middle-atlantic-bight, nantucket-shoals, new-york-bight, north-america, numerical-modeling, ocean-processes, oceans, predictions, rhode-island-sound, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, sea-floor-habitat, seabed, seafloor, sediment-mobility, sediment-transport, stellwagen-bank, substrate, swan, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-cc8ee2b5-c581-49e9-8307-a3f4968f46e9, wave, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Trackline navigation for EdgeTech SB-512i chirp seismic-reflection data collected in May 2012 by the U.S. Geological Survey within the Washington Canyon, mid-Atlantic margin (Esri polyline shapefile, Geographic, WGS 84, WC_tracklines.shp)

A large number of high-resolution geophysical surveys between Cape Hatteras and Georges Bank have been conducted by federal, state, and academic institutions since the turn of the century. A major goal of these surveys is providing a continuous view of bathymetry and shallow stratigraphy at the shelf edge in order to assess levels of geological activity during the current sea level highstand.  In 2012, chirp seismic-reflection data was collected by the U.S. Geologial Survey aboard the motor vessel Tiki XIV near three United States mid-Atlantic margin submarine canyons. These data can be used to further our understanding of passive continental margin processes during the Holocene, as well as providing valuable information regarding potential submarine geohazards. For more information on the U.S. Geological Survey involvement in this effort, see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2012-005-FA.

Tags: 512i, atlantic-ocean, baltimore-canyon-trough, chirp, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continental-margin, edgetech, field-activity-2012-005-fa, field-activity-number-12005, geohazards, geospatial-datasets, location, m-v-tiki-14, m-v-tiki-xiv, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, maryland, mid-atlantic-margin, navigation-tracklines, navigational-data, north-america, oceans, sea-floor, seafloor, seismic-navigation, seismic-profile, seismic-reflection, seismic-reflection-data, submarine-canyon, subsurface, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-cc81f37e-f742-4707-92d9-19626db2d149, usgs-cmg-infobank-id-t-05-12-mc, washington-canyon, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sea Turtle Nesting Decision Points and Cross-Shore Beach Profile Data Collected on June 15, 2022, from Jupiter Island, Florida

On June 15, 2022, surveys were conducted on ‘high-density’ sea turtle nesting areas located on Jupiter Island, Florida. This dataset, Jupiter_20220615.zip, was collected and processed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) and includes sea turtle nesting decision point locations (.csv) and cross-shore beach profiles (.xyz) at those locations. Utilizing previously published methods for collecting beach profile data (Henderson and others, 2016; Brown and others, 2018), data were acquired by USGS scientists walking along cross-shore transect lines while carrying a survey backpack that was equipped with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver and GNSS antenna. The horizontal position data are provided in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, Zone 17 North (17N), referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), and the elevation data are referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), GEOID12B.

Tags: altimetry, beach, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, distributions, earth-science-gt-land-surface-gt-topography-gt-terrain-elevation, earth-science-gt-oceans-gt-coastal-processes-gt-beaches, elevation, elevation-data, florida, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, global-navigation-satellite-system-gnss-observations, gnss-measurement, marine-geology, oceans, providers-gt-government-agencies-u-s-federal-agencies-gt-doi-gt-usgs-gt-doi-usgs-cmg, south-atlantic, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, topographic-mapping, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-cc71b21b-9df0-40b5-9e93-6d791da7fd84
Organization: Department of the Interior
Contour Farming on Agricultural Land in the Conterminous United States, 1992: National Resource Inventory Conservation Practice 330

This data set represents the estimated percentage of the 1-km grid cell that is covered by or subject to the 
agricultural conservation practice (CP330), Contour Farming (CF) on agricultural land by county.  Contour 
Farming is described as "tillage, planting, and other farming operations performed on or near the contour 
of the field slope." (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1995) This data set was created with geographic 
information systems (GIS) and database management tools. The acres on which CF's are applied were 
totaled at the county level in the tabular NRI database and then apportioned to a raster coverage of 
agricultural land within the county based on the Enhanced National Land Cover Dataset (NLCDe) 
1-kilometer resolution land cover grids (Nakagaki, 2003). Federal land is not considered in this analysis 
because NRI does not record information on those lands.

Tags: agricultural-practices, contour-farming, environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, national-resources-inventory, usgs-cd4cfa00-08ce-478a-b75c-171250a9e0bd
Organization: Department of the Interior
EAARL Topography George Washington Birthplace National Monument

A bare earth elevation map (also known as a Digital Elevation Model or DEM) of George Washington Birthplace National Monument was produced from remotely-sensed, geographically-referenced elevation measurements in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Air and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Park Service (NPS). Elevation measurements were collected over the area using the NASA Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL), a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure ground elevation, vegetation canopy, and coastal topography. The system uses high frequency laser beams directed at the earth's surface through an opening in the bottom of the aircraft's fuselage. The laser system records the time difference between emission of the laser beam and the reception of the reflected laser signal in the aircraft. The plane travels over the target area at approximately 50 meters per second at an elevation of approximately 300 meters. The EAARL, developed by NASA at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, measures ground elevation with a vertical resolution of 15 centimeters. A sampling rate of 3 kHz or higher results in an extremely dense spatial elevation data set. Over 100 kilometers of coastline can be easily surveyed within a 3- to 4-hour mission time period. When subsequent elevation maps for an area are analyzed, they provide a useful tool to make management decisions regarding land development.
For more information on Lidar science and the Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) system and surveys, see http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/overview/index.php and http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/tech/eaarl/index.php .

Tags: airborne-lidar-processing-system, alps, altimetry, bare-earth-elevation, bathymetry-and-elevation, derived-surface, digital-elevation-model, digital-elevation-models, distributions, eaarl, elevation, elevation-change, experimental-advanced-airborne-research-lidar, george-washington-birthplace-national-monument, laser-altimetry, lidar, resource-management, topographic-mapping, topography, usgs-cc604b53-f943-4516-a7a2-7d6e3d12beef, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Interpretation of the distribution of Pleistocene gravelly sand deposits on the inner-continental shelf within the New York Bight, derived from seismic data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1995 - 1999 (Esri polygon shapefile, Geographic, WGS84)

These data orginate from interpretations of seismic
reflection and sidescan-sonar data. The derivative data are in an
ESRI shapefile, polygon vector format and are intended to represent the
distribution of Pleistocene gravelly sand deposits throughout the inner-continental
shelf within the New York Bight. These data are helpful in
understanding the stratigraphic evolution of the inner-continental shelf, the regional sediment
transport system, and the influence of the inner-shelf framework
on coastal processes.

Tags: bedforms, geologic-interpretation, geospatial-datasets, high-resolution-seismic, holocene, marine-geology, sand-ridges, scientific-interpretation, sea-floor-characteristics, sidescan-sonar, usgs-cc5d1c3a-cf22-4b58-886a-0e0b86d400cf
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 -- Geologic units forming the top 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 polygons of geologic units 
forming the top of the Floridan aquifer system. Polygon regions were modified from U.S. Geological 
Survey Professional Paper 1403B (Miller, 1986).

Tags: 1403b, 1986, age, alabama, contours, environment, fas, florida, floridan-aquifer-system, geologic-units, geology, georgia, geoscientificinformation, hydrogeology, inlandwaters, miller, professional-paper, regional-groundwater-availability-study, rocks, south-carolina, stratigraphy, top, united-states-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-cc5b4ed1-4a78-4741-b7ab-2504a883ef03
Organization: Department of the Interior
Archive of Digital CHIRP Seismic Reflection Data Collected During USGS Cruise 06SCC02 Offshore of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, July 2006

In July of 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted geophysical surveys offshore of Chandeleur Islands, LA, and in nearby waterbodies. This report serves as an archive of unprocessed digital CHIRP seismic reflection data, trackline maps, navigation files, GIS information, Field Activity Collection System (FACS) logs, observer's logbook, and formal FGDC metadata. Gained digital images of the seismic profiles are also provided.
The archived trace data are in standard Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) SEG-Y format (Barry and others, 1975) and may be downloaded and processed with commercial or public domain software such as Seismic Unix (SU). Example SU processing scripts and USGS software for viewing the SEG-Y files (Zihlman, 1992) are also provided.

Tags: 06scc02, barrier-island-coastal-monitoring, chandeleur-islands, chandeleur-sound, chirp, distributions, freemason-islands, gulf-of-mexico, louisiana, marine-geophysics, marine-seismic-reflection, north-islands, seg-y, seismic-reflection, seismic-reflection-methods, sub-bottom-profiling, subsidence-and-coastal-change, substrate, usgs-cc426a11-c981-4ef4-88cf-5f61768a8b6b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 4.3 transects and long-term linear regression shoreline change statistics without shorelines from 1970-1979 and 1994 within the Martha's Vineyard coastal region including the Vineyard Sound-, Nantucket Sound- and Atlantic Ocean- facing coasts of Martha's Vineyard and Nomans Land (MarthasVineyard_transects_rates_LTwo.shp)

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

Tags: accretion, atlantic-coast, baseline, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, erosion, esri-polyline-shapefile, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, historic-shoreline, linear-regression-rate, long-term, lrr, marthas-vineyard, massachusetts, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, net-shoreline-movement, new-england, nomans-land, nsm, oceans, sce, shoreline, shoreline-change-envelope, shoreline-change-rate, transect, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-cc26ea5c-a993-42a5-bf70-ba6c99990125, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior