AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
LANDFIRE 2022 Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC) Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands

LANDFIRE's (LF) 2022 update (LF 2022) Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC) represents the vertically projected percent cover of the live canopy for a 30-m cell. EVC is produced separately for tree, shrub, and herbaceous lifeforms. Training data depicting percentages of canopy cover are obtained from plot-level ground-based visual assessments and lidar observations. These are combined with Landsat imagery (from multiple seasons), to inform models built independently for each lifeform. Tree, shrub, and herbaceous lifeforms each have a potential range from 10% to 100% (cover values less than 10% are binned into the 10% value). The three independent lifeform datasets are merged into a single product based on the dominant lifeform of each pixel. The EVC product is then reconciled through QA/QC measures to ensure lifeform is synchronized with Existing Vegetation Height (EVH). Urban and developed areas are derived from the National Land Cover Database (NLCD), and the latest available Microsoft Building Footprint dataset. Agricultural lands originate from the 2022 Cropland Data Layer (CDL) and the 2019 California Statewide Crop Mapping layer. Disturbance events after 2016 are accounted for by incorporating transition rulesets using LF 2022 Fuel Disturbance (FDist). LF uses EVC as an input for LF 2022 Fuel Vegetation Cover (FVC).

Tags: biota, evc, existing-vegetation-cover, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, insular-areas, landfire-2022, lf-2022, oconus, puerto-rico, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, us-virgin-islands, usgs-6555434dd34ee4b6e05c4642
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sound velocity vs. depth plots and CTD cast data collected in April 2021 offshore Santa Cruz, California during USGS field activity 2021-619-FA

Sound velocity and CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) cast data were collected at 9 sites offshore Santa Cruz, CA during USGS field activity 2021-619-FA in April of 2021. Aboard the R/V Parke Snavely (RVPS), a SonTek CastAway-CTD was used to collect these data at in the upper 67 meters of the water column. these data is provided in csv format, a shapefile of cast locations, as well as PNG plots of the speed of sound as a function of depth for each cast location.

Tags: cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, data-processing, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, global-positioning-system-gps-observations, location, marine-chemistry, marine-geophysics, monterey-bay, monterey-canyon, navigational-data, ocean-salinity, ocean-sciences, ocean-temperature, oceanographic-observations, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, profiles, santa-cruz, soquel-canyon, sound-velocity, state-of-california, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-a26a06ce-7031-46fa-b717-52350cf93f7b, water-column-features, water-quality-parameters, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-sciences-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
k181hw.m77t - MGD77 data file for Geophysical data from field activity K-1-81-HW in Hawaii from 01/26/1981 to 02/05/1981

Single-beam bathymetry data along with DGPS navigation data was collected as part of field activity K-1-81-HW in Hawaii from 01/26/1981 to 02/05/1981, http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/k/k181hw/html/k-1-81-hw.meta.html
The geophysical source was a Knudsen 12 kHz 320B/R echosounder.
These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/k/k181hw/html/k-1-81-hw.bath.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, central-pacific-ocean, distributions, geoscientificinformation, hawaii, hawaii-i-eez, hawaiian-islands-humpback-whale-national-marine-sanctuary, hw, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, north-pacific-ocean, northern-pacific-ocean, oceans, seafloor-topography, single-beam-echo-sounder, usa, usgs-7618369e-ba0b-4d1a-8a12-1c6e5cea6e71, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
Erosion and Rehabilitation Data, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, USA

These data were compiled for a restoration experiment testing the regenerative and functional response of biocrust inoculum reintroduced to a field setting.  Regenerative traits measured included measurements of biocrust cover, chlorophyll content, and the roughness of the soil surface. Functional traits measured included nutrient cycling and soil stability.  Additionally, these data were compiled for an experiment testing how much soil is lost from different types of ground cover. The data collected was related to ground cover and the amount of soil lost from plots through time. These data were used to inform the conclusions drawn in the accompanying manuscript.

Tags: bandelier-national-monument, biological-soil-crust, biota, drylands, ecosystem-function, environment, erosion, los-alamos, los-alamos-county, new-mexico, nutrient-cycling, pinyon-juniper, rehabilitation, restoration, sandoval-county, semi-arid, soil-stability, southwestern-united-states, united-states, usgs-5b2c289ae4b040769c107cab, woodland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ground-based frequency domain electromagnetic (FDEM) data from the Illinois River Basin in support of the USGS Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS)

This data release contains frequency domain electromagnetic (FDEM) geophysical data collected in fields and forests near and along the banks of the Kankakee River near Hanna, Indiana to observe near surface (top 10 meters or less) electrical conductivity variations, potentially related to soil moisture, lithology, and/or pore fluid conductivity. Both a GEM-2 and a DualEM-421 instrument were used. Raw data, processed inversions (electrical conductivity versus depth), data dictionaries and README files for each instrument are contained in the attached files.

Tags: electromagnetic-surveying, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, groundwater-quality, hanna, hydrogeology, indiana, inlandwaters, kankakee-river, salinity, soil-moisture, usgs-661d3181d34e7eb9eb7e3956, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Time series of seismic velocity changes during the 2018 collapse of Kīlauea volcano derived from coda wave interferometry of repeating earthquakes

These processed data and provisional codes were created to investigate seismic velocity changes associated with the collapse of Kīlauea caldera during its 2018 eruption. Primary data (i.e., seismic waveforms) are hosted at the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS; https://www.iris.edu/) and are ingested by the codes included here to reproduce the data analyzed in Hotovec-Ellis et al., 'Earthquake-derived seismic velocity changes during the 2018 caldera collapse of Kīlauea volcano.' The included code ('cwire' short for Coda Wave Interferometry with Repeating Earthquakes) takes a catalog of earthquakes clustered by waveform similarity (e.g., REDPy, https://github.com/ahotovec/REDPy/) and processes the coda for each pair of earthquakes within each cluster for changes in seismic velocity. Specifically, it finds the optimal time stretching factor to either expand or condense one earthquake's coda waveform to match the other, with that stretching factor equal to the relative change in seismic velocity (dv/v). It then takes those pairwise measurements and uses damped least-squares inversion to find the continuous time series that fits the pairwise measurements and writes them to the 'out' directory; results from runs described by the included configuration files are included in this directory for validation as part of this data release. The resulting time series can then be compared across the local seismic network and with other time series such as deformation. All data are stored in HDF5 database files (*.h5) created in the working directory. See README.txt for further documentation.

Tags: hawaii-county, klauea, klauea-crater, regression-analysis, scientific-software, seismic-methods, seismology, time-series-analysis, usgs-61a8fa27d34eb622f699a6a6, volcanic-activity, volcano-monitoring
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 271030  Apo

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

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d012d2e4b0236b68f52c04, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nesting RSF of translocated greater sage-grouse in North Dakota, 2017 - 2018

These data represent an resource selection function (RSF) for translocated sage-grouse in North Dakota during the nesting season. Human enterprise has led to large‐scale changes in landscapes and altered wildlife population distribution and abundance, necessitating efficient and effective conservation strategies for impacted species. Greater sage‐grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter sage‐grouse) are a widespread sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) obligate species that has experienced population declines since the mid‐1900s resulting from habitat loss and expansion of anthropogenic features into sagebrush ecosystems. Habitat loss is especially evident in North Dakota, USA, on the northeastern fringe of sage‐grouse’ distribution, where a remnant population remains despite recent development of energy‐related infrastructure. Resource managers in this region have determined a need to augment sage‐grouse populations using translocation techniques that can be important management tools for countering species decline from range contraction. Although translocations are a common tool for wildlife management, very little research has evaluated habitat following translocation, to track individual behaviors such as habitat selection and fidelity to the release site, which can help inform habitat requirements to guide selection of future release sites. We provide an example where locations from previously released radio‐marked sage‐grouse are used in a resource selection function framework to evaluate habitat selection following translocation and identify areas of seasonal habitat to inform habitat management and potential restoration needs. We also evaluated possible changes in seasonal habitat since the late 1980s using spatial data provided by the Rangeland Analysis Platform coupled with resource selection modeling results. Our results serve as critical baseline information for habitat used by translocated individuals across life stages in this study area, and will inform future evaluations of population performance and potential for long‐term recovery.

Tags: biota, habitats, nest, resource-selection-function, sage-grouse, shrubland-ecosystems, usgs-610070a1d34ef8d7055ca3f6
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2018 Site 0347 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-611f1301d34e40dd9c01d187, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Structure-from-Motion point clouds from Miami Park surveys, MI, July 19, 2021

Structure-from-Motion (SfM) point clouds were created from images collected using a remotely piloted unoccupied aerial system over the bluffs of the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Miami Park rural residential area. The digital imagery was collected with the internal camera of a DJI Phantom 4 PRO PPK that was operated by the University of Toledo, on July 19, 2021. The images cover an extent between south of Lakestone Dr. to the north, and south of A St. to the south. The images were collected in .jpg format and include Exif metadata with GPS date, time, and latitude and longitude, copyright, keywords, and other fields. Point clouds were created from the collected images using SfM photogrammetry software. The point cloud was classified in ground (bare earth) and unclassified (everything else e.g. buildings, vegetation, water, etc.).

Tags: allegan-county, digital-elevation-model, elevation, geology-minerals-energy-and-geophysics-science-center, geospatial-datasets, gmeg, lake-michigan, landslides, mgs, miami-park, michigan-geological-survey, national-cooperative-geologic-mapping-program, ncgmp, remote-sensing, state-of-michigan, structure-from-motion, u-s-geological-survey, university-of-toledo, usgs, usgs-62547d2fd34e21f8276f4272, ut
Organization: Department of the Interior
Night Heron Incubation Data will gulls

Parental incubation behavior largely influences nest survival, a critical demographic process in avian population dynamics, and behaviors vary across species with different life history breeding strategies. Although research has identified nest survival advantages of mixing colonies, behavioral mechanisms that might explain these effects is largely lacking. We examined parental incubation behavior using video-monitoring techniques on Alcatraz Island, California, of black-crowned night-heron Nycticorax nycticorax (hereinafter, night-heron) in a mixed-species colony with California gulls Larus californicus and western gulls L. occidentalis. We first quantified general nesting behaviors, incubation constancy, and nest attendance,
and a suite of specific nesting behaviors (i.e. inactivity, vigilance, preening, and nest maintenance) with respect to six different daily time periods. We employed linear mixed effects models to investigate environmental and temporal factors as sources of variation in incubation constancy and nest attendance using 211 nest days across three nesting seasons (2010–2012). We found incubation constancy (percent of time on the eggs) and nest attendance (percent of time at the nest) were lower for nests that were located &lt; 3 m from one or more gull nest, which indirectly supports the predator protection hypothesis, whereby heterospecifics provide protection allowing more time for foraging and other self-maintenance activities. To our knowledge, this is the first empirical evidence of the influence of one nesting species on the incubation behavior of another. We also identified distinct differences between incubation constancy and nest attentiveness, indicating that these biparental incubating species do not share similar energetic constraints as those that are observed for uniparental species. Additionally, we found that variation in incubation behavior was a function of temperature and precipitation, where the strength of these effects was dependent on the time of day. Overall, these findings strengthen our understanding of incubation behavior and nest ecology of a colonial-nesting species. This dataset includes variables associated with nesting gulls (VICIN and GULL10).

Tags: alcatraz-island, black-crowned-night-herons, incubation-behavior, nesting-gulls, san-francisco-bay, usgs-5661be81e4b06a3ea36c5792, video-monitoring
Organization: Department of the Interior
Species distribution model (SDM) for Lycium andersonii in the Mojave Desert

Preserving native species diversity is fundamental to ecosystem conservation. Selecting appropriate native species for use in restoration is a critical component of project design and may emphasize species attributes such as life history, functional type, pollinator services, and nutritional value for wildlife. Determining which species are likely to establish and persist in a particular environment is a key consideration. Species distribution models (SDMs) characterize relationships between species occurrences and the physical environment (e.g., climate, soil, topographic relief) and provide a mechanism for assessing which species may successfully propagate at a restoration site. In conjunction with information on species attributes, SDMs facilitate holistic ecosystem restoration by enabling practitioners to identify diverse, resilient assemblages of native species. This project develops SDMs for native species of fundamental ecosystem importance in order to guide restoration of Mojave Desert landscapes. The dataset contained herein provides an SDM for Lycium andersonii within its Mojave Desert range based on known occurrences.

Tags: arizona, biogeography, biota, california, habitats, maps-and-atlases, mojave, native-plant-materials-development, native-species, nevada, species-distribution-model, usgs-61fda0b4d34e622189cf7b58, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Thermal infrared and photogrammetric data collected by small unoccupied aircraft system for hydrogeologic analysis of Oh-be-joyful Creek, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado, August 2017

The U.S. Geological Survey collected low-altitude airborne thermal infrared data and visual imagery via a multirotor, small unoccupied aircraft system deployed from the northern bank of Oh-be-joyful Creek and adjacent to the Peeler fault, approximately 6 kilometers northwest of the town of Crested Butte, in Gunnison National Forest, Colorado, on August 17, 2017. Thermal infrared  still images were collected in jpg and radiometric tiff formats, and non-radiometric thermal infrared video was collected. The radiometric thermal infrared still images were compiled automatically into a larger stitched image (orthomosaic). Visual imagery was collected in jpg format, and the images were compiled automatically into a larger stitched image (orthomosaic). Structure from Motion techniques were applied to the visual imagery to derive a time-specific digital elevation model (DEM).

Tags: aerial-photography, colorado, drone, environment, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, groundwater-and-surface-water-interaction, gunnison-county, gunnison-national-forest, hydrogeology, hydrology, image-collections, inlandwaters, oh-be-joyful-creek, remote-sensing, seepage, surface-water, surface-water-non-marine, thermal-imaging, uas, unmanned-aircraft-system, unoccupied-aircraft-system, usgs-5bd883c5e4b0b3fc5cea1833, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shell Island East Barrier Island Restoration (BA-0110): 2013 habitat pre-construction and post-construction (as-built) classification (ver. 1.1, July 2021)

This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Shell Island East Barrier Island Restoration (BA-0110) project both pre and post-construction for 2013. This data is used as a basemap habitat classification. If repeated, it can also serve as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their project boundary. To better evaluate the effectiveness of restoration efforts, a habitat classification was performed on specific projects to help assess landscape changes.
First posted - June 18, 2018 (available from author)
Revised - July 15, 2021 (version 1.1)

Tags: aerial-photography, ba-0110, digital-elevation-models, doqq, ecosystem-monitoring, geographic-information-systems, gulf-of-mexico, habitats, image-collections, image-mosaics, louisiana, louisiana-coastal, natural-resource-management, remote-sensing, south-louisiana, usgs-5ad0fd45e4b0e2c2dd1f9e27, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
sir-06-5129_alt_water_table_con

This digital geospatial data set consists of potentiometric contours that show lines of equal 
altitude of the generalized, long-term, regional water table in the northern part of Las Animas 
County, Colorado.  The U.S. Geological Survey developed this data set as part of a cooperative 
project with the Colorado Water Conservation Board.

Tags: colorado, cuchara-formation, geoscientificinformation, huerfano-formation, inlandwaters, las-animas-county, poison-canyon-formation, raton-formation, trinidad-sandstone, usgs-92c2b967-04b7-410e-86d0-13656893b829, vermejo-formation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 282110  Asosan

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

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d0134ee4b0236b68f52ca4, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior