AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Site 0008 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b63195de4b006a11f7176c9, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Site 0006 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b63195be4b006a11f7176c7, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Site 0003 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b631958e4b006a11f7176c5, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Seneca Terrain models

Terrain models representing river channel and terrestrial surface elevations were developed for use in 2D hydraulic modeling with HEC-RAS software. Channel bed elevations were determined from cross-sectional field surveys (Seneca Creek and Patapsco River) or manual corrections of the LIDAR data (Patuxent River and Little Gunpowder Falls) and integrated with the terrestrial LIDAR data.

Tags: elevation, environment, flood-plain, flood-regime, floodplain, floods-and-hazard-preparedness, hydrogeomorphology, hydrology, inundation, little-gunpowder-falls, maryland, patapsco-river, patuxent-river, seneca-creek, usgs-5b912fb8e4b0702d0e8085e9
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Site 0002 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b631954e4b006a11f7176c2, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mean tidal range in marsh units of Plum Island Estuary and Parker River salt marsh complex, Massachusetts


    Biomass production is positively correlated with mean tidal range in salt marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States of America. Recent studies support the idea that enhanced stability of the marshes can be attributed to increased vegetative growth due to increased tidal range. This dataset displays the spatial variation of mean tidal range (i.e. Mean Range of Tides, MN) in the Plum Island Estuary and Parker River (PIEPR) salt marsh complex based on conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018). MN was based on the calculated difference in height between mean high water (MHW) and mean low water (MLW) using the VDatum (v3.5) database ( http://vdatum.noaa.gov/ ). 
    
    Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the Plum Island Estuary and Parker River salt marsh complex, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services. Mean elevation of marsh units is planned to be an underlying parameter in the synthesis of these factors.
    
    References:
    Defne, Z., and Ganju, N.K., 2018, Conceptual marsh units for Plum Island Estuary and Parker River salt marsh complex, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XF54QF
   

Tags: atlantic-ocean, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, environment, estuary, geospatial-datasets, great-marsh-area-of-critical-environmental-concern, inlandwaters, long-term-ecological-research, lter, marsh-health, massachusetts, merrimack-river, oceans, parker-river, parker-river-essex-bay-area-of-critical-environmental-concern, parker-river-national-wildlife-refuge, plum-island-sound, salt-marsh, sandy-point-state-reservation, tidal-range, tides-oceanic, united-states, usgs-5b626fc6e4b006a11f6f8b9d, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Elevation of marsh units in Plum Island Estuary and Parker River salt marsh complex, Massachusetts


    This data release provides elevation distribution in the Plum Island Estuary and Parker River (PIEPR) salt marsh complex. Elevation distribution was calculated in terms of mean elevation of conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018). The elevation data was based on the 1-meter gridded Digital Elevation Model and supplemented by 1-meter resampled 1/9 arc-second resolution National Elevation Data, where data gaps exist. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the Plum Island Estuary and Parker River salt marsh complex, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services. Mean elevation of marsh units is planned to be an underlying parameter in the synthesis of these factors.
    
    References:
    Defne, Z., and Ganju, N.K., 2018, Conceptual marsh units for Plum Island Estuary and Parker River salt marsh complex, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XF54QF
   

Tags: atlantic-ocean, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, elevation, environment, estuary, geospatial-datasets, great-marsh-area-of-critical-environmental-concern, inlandwaters, long-term-ecological-research, lter, marsh-health, massachusetts, merrimack-river, oceans, parker-river, parker-river-essex-bay-area-of-critical-environmental-concern, parker-river-national-wildlife-refuge, plum-island-sound, salt-marsh, sandy-point-state-reservation, united-states, usgs-5b622ecce4b006a11f6f84d6, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio in Plum Island Estuary and Parker River salt marsh complex, Massachusetts


    Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio (UVVR) in the Plum Island Estuary and Parker River (PIEPR) salt marsh complex was computed based on conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018). UVVR was calculated based on U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) 1-meter resolution imagery. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the Plum Island Estuary and Parker River salt marsh complex, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services. UVVR is planned to be an underlying parameter in the synthesis of these factors.
    
    References:
    Defne, Z., and Ganju, N.K., 2018, Conceptual marsh units for Plum Island Estuary and Parker River salt marsh complex, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XF54QF
   

Tags: atlantic-ocean, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, environment, estuary, geospatial-datasets, great-marsh-area-of-critical-environmental-concern, inlandwaters, long-term-ecological-research, lter, marsh-health, massachusetts, merrimack-river, oceans, parker-river, parker-river-essex-bay-area-of-critical-environmental-concern, parker-river-national-wildlife-refuge, plum-island-sound, salt-marsh, sandy-point-state-reservation, united-states, usgs-5b622a13e4b006a11f6f84c5, uvvr, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Database of modified routing for NHDPlus version 2.1 flowlines: ENHDPlusV2_us

This database (ENHDPlusV2_us) contains a topologically reconditioned (enhanced) version of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) NHDPlus Version 2.1 (NHDPlusV2) flowline network. The comma separated file included in this release contains routing and stream connection information, with the intention of improving accuracy and networking capabilities. The enhancements described here include corrections to inconsistencies in network and routing information, filling-in missing attribute values of associated characteristics, and revisions to diverted flow routing. The database is intended for routing purposes only; no cartographic changes were made to the original NHDPlusv2 flowline line work. 
Each segment of the flowline network is referenced with the unique identifier COMID. The dataset also contains attributes that identify the immediate upstream (Hydroseq and cfromnode) and downstream (ctonode) COMID in the modified flowline network. The network connectivity for flowlines ranging from headwaters to the most downstream flowline allows for the routing and aggregating of information assigned to the network. The resulting enhanced network, available in a single data file for the entire conterminous U.S., has the designation ENHDPlusV2_us.

Tags: hydrologic-network, nhdplus, routing, usgs-5b92790be4b0702d0e809fe5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Conceptual marsh units for Plum Island Estuary and Parker River salt marsh complex, Massachusetts


    The salt marsh complex of Plum Island Estuary and Parker River (PIEPR) was delineated to smaller, conceptual marsh units by geoprocessing of surface elevation data. Flow accumulation based on the relative elevation of each location was used to determine the ridge lines that separate each marsh unit while the surface slope was used to automatically assign each unit a drainage point, where water is expected to drain through. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the Plum Island Estuary and Parker River salt marsh complex, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands to physical factors need to be assessed in terms of the ensuing change to their vulnerability and ecosystem services. 
   

Tags: atlantic-ocean, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-processes, environment, estuary, geospatial-datasets, great-marsh-area-of-critical-environmental-concern, inlandwaters, long-term-ecological-research, lter, marsh-health, massachusetts, merrimack-river, oceans, parker-river, parker-river-essex-bay-area-of-critical-environmental-concern, parker-river-national-wildlife-refuge, plum-island-sound, salt-marsh, sandy-point-state-reservation, united-states, usgs-5b621055e4b006a11f6f83e4, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-functions
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Release: Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, Hyperspectral Algal Samples

Hyperspectral microscope images of algal samples collected from Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, from August 15, 2016 to September 30, 2016.

Tags: harmful-algal-blooms, usgs-5b61f93ae4b006a11f6f789b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Priority sampling locations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico for the Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program

The sampling locations provided here were selected as a two-stage Generalized Random Tessellation Stratified (GRTS) sample (Stevens &amp; Olsen 2004). The first stage of the GRTS draw used a master sample developed by the North American Bat Monitoring Program (Loeb et al. 2015) from a 10 x 10 km grid placed over the conterminous U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Each 10 x 10 km grid cell (hereafter, master cell) was assigned a GRTS rank by NABat. The rank represents the priority order in which master cells should ideally be sampled. For the second stage of the draw, sampling points within a master cell were selected. Each point was defined as a 30 x 30 m cell of the GIS raster that defined monarch-relevant habitat. Sampling points within each master cell were assigned to 5 land-use sectors of interest. For the western U.S., 3 categories of estimated milkweed habitat suitability were used instead of land-use sectors.

Tags: biota, canada, long-term-monitoring, mexico, monarch-butterfly, sampling-design, status-and-trends, united-states, usgs-5b61f90ee4b006a11f6f7892
Organization: Department of the Interior
Priority sampling locations in the eastern U.S. for the Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program

The sampling locations provided here were selected as a two-stage Generalized Random Tessellation Stratified (GRTS) sample (Stevens &amp; Olsen 2004). The first stage of the GRTS draw used a master sample developed by the North American Bat Monitoring Program (Loeb et al. 2015) from a 10 x 10 km grid placed over the conterminous U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Each 10 x 10 km grid cell (hereafter, master cell) was assigned a GRTS rank by NABat. The rank represents the priority order in which master cells should ideally be sampled. For the second stage of the draw, sampling points within a master cell were selected. Each point was defined as a 30 x 30 m cell of the GIS raster that defined monarch-relevant habitat. Sampling points within each master cell were assigned to 5 land-use sectors of interest. For the western U.S., 3 categories of estimated milkweed habitat suitability were used instead of land-use sectors.

Tags: biota, canada, long-term-monitoring, mexico, monarch-butterfly, sampling-design, status-and-trends, united-states, usgs-5b61f872e4b006a11f6f787f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wetland water-management may influence mercury bioaccumulation in songbirds and ducks at a mercury hotspot data release

We examined the role of wetland water-management on mercury bioaccumulation in songbirds and ducks. This database contains records of mercury concentrations in blood of wetland-foraging songbirds (80 common yellowthroats [Geothlypis trichas] and 14 Nelson’s sparrows [Ammospiza nelsoni]) and eggs of upland-nesting ducks (28 gadwall [Mareca strepera], 19 blue-winged teal [Spatula discors], and 13 northern shoveler [S. clypeta]) across four wetland water-management classifications at Kellys Slough National Wildlife Refuge Complex, near Grand Forks, North Dakota USA.

Tags: biota, birds, environment, impoundment, kellys-slough-national-wildlife-refuge, mercury, mercury-contamination, national-wildlife-refuge, north-dakota, prairie-pothole-region, usgs-5b61c24de4b006a11f6ccd6e, water-resource-management, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 6304 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 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. 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 2016 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. Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012). 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-5b60bb3be4b006a11f6b0d8c, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior