AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
DS 827, Vegetation Database for Land-Cover Mapping in Clark and Lincoln Counties, Nevada

This geodatabase consists of a point feature class and related tables representing sample 
sites where vegetation data were collected from 2007 to 2013 in Clark and Lincoln Counties, 
Nevada. Samples are identified with a vegetation stand name and classified from the alliance 
to the class level of the National Vegetation Classification Standard (NVC; Federal Geographic 
Data Committee, 2008). The database is also available in tabular format as tab-delimited text 
files or a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
	  
Reference Cited:
Federal Geographic Data Committee, 2008, 
National Vegetation Classification Standard, Version 2, FGDC-STD-005-2008, accessed December 6, 2012, http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/vegetation/NVCS_V2_FINAL_2008.pdf.

Tags: biota, clark-county, coyote-springs-area-of-critical-environmental-concern, desert-national-wildlife-refuge, geoscientificinformation, great-basin-desert, lincoln-county, mojave-desert, mormon-mesa-area-of-critical-environmental-concern, national-vegetation-classification-standard, nevada, nvc, piute-eldorado-valley-area-of-critical-environmental-concern, red-rock-canyon-national-conservation-area, usgs-79a3753f-cd68-418e-ad67-c332659239d6, vegetation, vegetation-sample, vegetation-species, vegetation-stand, vegetation-taxa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetry [5m]--Offshore of Monterey, California

This part of DS 781 presents data for the bathymetry map of the Offshore of Monterey map area, California. Bathymetry data are provided as separate grids depending on resolution. This metadata file refers to the data included in "Bathymetry_5m_OffshoreMonterey.zip," which is accessible from https://doi.org/10.5066/F70Z71C8. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Johnson, S.Y., Dartnell, P., Hartwell, S.R., Cochrane, G.R., Golden, N.E., Watt, J.T., Davenport, C.W., Kvitek, R.G., Erdey, M.D., Krigsman, L.M., Sliter, R.W., and Maier, K.L. (S.Y. Johnson and S.A. Cochran, eds.), 2016, California State Waters Map Series—Offshore of Monterey, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1110, pamphlet 44 p., 10 sheets, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161110. 
The 2-m and 5-m bathymetry and shaded-relief bathymetry maps of the Offshore of Monterey map area, California, were generated from acoustic bathymetry data collected by California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), as well as from bathymetric lidar data collected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Center of Expertise (JALBTCX). Acoustic mapping was completed between 1998 and 2012 using a combination of 200-kHz/400-kHz Reson 7125, 100-kHz Reson 7111, 240-kHz Reson 8101, and 30-kHz Simrad EM-300 multibeam echosounders, as well as 234-kHz and 468-kHz SWATHplus bathymetric sidescan-sonar systems. Bathymetric lidar mapping was completed between 2009 and 2010 for the California Coastal Mapping Project (CCMP). These mapping missions combined to collect bathymetry data from the shoreline to beyond the limit of California’s State Waters. NOTE: The horizontal datum of this bathymetry data (NAD83) differs from the horizontal datum of other layers in this data release (WGS84).

Tags: backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, continental-island-shelf, distributions, ecosystem, environment, fisheries, geology, geoscientificinformation, imagerybasemapsearthcover, intensity, marina, marine-geophysics, marine-nearshore-subtidal, marine-offshore-subtidal, monterey, monterey-county, multibeam, northern-california-ecoregion, ocean-floor-topography, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pacific-ocean, pcmsc, rock-substrate, seafloor-character, seafloor-topography, seaside, sonar-methods, state-of-california, transform-continental-margin, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-mineral-substrate, usgs, usgs-46ed155a-278e-44c2-ad93-4219a0ec8d22
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dataset establishing shallow storage of the explosive Earthquake Flat Pyroclastics magma body, Okataina Volcanic Center, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: evidence from phase-equilibria experiments

These data are geochemical analyses of Earthquake Flat Pyroclastics pumice and phase equilibria experiments.

Tags: andesite, basalt, dacite, laboratory-experiments, phase-equilibria, rhyolite, usgs-6619bd6cd34e7eb9eb7dcdf5
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water chemistry and land cover attributes for The Loch and Sky Pond, Rocky Mountain National Park

Water chemistry and land cover attributes for The Loch and Sky Pond, Rocky Mountain National Park. These data were part of a larger survey (data from other sources) used to describe drivers of change to mountain lake productivity.

Tags: biota, chlorophyte-phytoplankton, colorado, diatom-phytoplankton, effects-of-climate-change, limnology, phytoplankton, rocky-mountain, usgs-5cca070ce4b09b8c0b77fcbb
Organization: Department of the Interior
Regional scale magnetotelluric data from the Rio Grande Rift and southern Rocky Mountains, Station rgr115

This dataset consists of 102 magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected in 2012-2014 in the Rio Grande Rift and southern Rocky Mountains. The U.S. Geological Survey acquired these data to improve regional conductivity models of the western United States. This work is in support of studies of the effect of lithospheric modification on electrical resistivity structure and tectonic evolution of the western United States.

Tags: apparent-resistivity, colorado, electromagnetic-surveying, geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, gggsc, impedance, magnetic-field-earth, magnetotelluric, mineral-resources-program, mrp, mt, phase, regional-conductivity-models, rio-grande-rift, rocky-mountains, time-series, tipper, usgs-5ad9176fe4b0e2c2dd27a928
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bottom Photographs in JPEG format acquired using a SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) within Barnegat Bay New Jersey by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2012, and 2013

Water quality in the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary along the New Jersey coast is the focus of a multidisciplinary research project begun in 2011 by the U.S. Geological Survey in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. This narrow estuary is the drainage for the Barnegat Watershed and flushed by just three inlets connecting it to the Atlantic Ocean, is experiencing degraded water quality, algal blooms, loss of seagrass, and increases in oxygen -depletion events, seaweed, stinging nettles, and brown tide. The scale of the estuary and the scope of the problems within it necessitate a multidisciplinary approach that includes characterizing its physical characteristics (for example, depth, magnitude and direction of tidal currents, distribution of seafloor and subseafloor sediment) and modeling how the physical characteristics interact to affect the estuary's water quality. Scientists from USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program offices in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and St. Petersburg, Florida, began mapping the seafloor of the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary in November 2011 and completed in September 2013. With funding from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and logistical support from the USGS New Jersey Water Science Center, they collected data with a suite of geophysical tools, including swath bathymetric sonar for measuring seafloor depth, a sidescan sonar for collecting acoustic-backscatter data (which provides information about seafloor texture and sediment type), subbottom profiler for imaging sediment layers beneath the floor of the estuary, and sediment samples with bottom photographs for ground validation of the acoustic data. More information about the four surveys that were part of this project can be found at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Field Activity web pages: 2011-041-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2011-041-FA 2012-003-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2012-003-FA 2013-014-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-014-FA 2013-030-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-030-FA

Tags: 2012, 2013, barnegat-bay, barnegat-inlet, bottom-photographs, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, environment, field-activity-serial-number-2012-003-fa, field-activity-serial-number-2013-014-fa, field-activity-serial-number-2013-030-fa, forked-river, ground-truth, image-collections, jpeg, little-egg-harbor, little-egg-inlet, mantoloking, marine-geology, metedeconk-river, oceans, rv-rafael, sea-floor, sea-floor-characteristics, seaboss, seafloor, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, state-of-new-jersey, toms-river, tuckerton, u-s-geological-survey, underwater-photography, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-3f6b780e-b60b-42be-87ac-f5ef8ef2ebc3, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Text Files of the DGPS Navigation Logged with HYPACK Software on April 18, 2010 During U.S. Geological Survey Cruise 2010-010

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Imagery, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provides a fundamental framework for research and management activities along this part of Long Island Sound, shows the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provides information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. Interpretive data layers were derived from the multibeam echo-sounder data and sidescan-sonar data collected north of Orient Point, New York. During April 2010, bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of a USGS ground-truth reconnaissance survey of these areas. For more information on the ground-truth survey see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fa=2010-010-FA.

Tags: bottom-photographs, bottom-video, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, connecticut-department-of-environmental-protection, csi-lgbx-pro-differential-gps, ct-dep, field-activity-serial-number-2010-010, hypack, info-bank-id-r-10-10-li, inlandwaters, location, long-island, long-island-sound, navigation, navigational-data, new-york, north-america, north-atlantic, northeast-united-states, oceans, orient-point, point, r-v-rafael, seaboss, u-s-geological-survey, underwater-photography, united-states, usgs, usgs-a05f6613-ecdd-48d3-80f3-25cb5728d883, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 4.2 Transects with Short-Term End Point Rate Calculations for Oregon (OR_transects_ST.shp)

Sandy ocean beaches are a popular recreational destination, often surrounded by communities containing valuable real estate.  Development is on the rise despite the fact that coastal infrastructure is subjected to flooding and erosion.  As a result, there is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes.  To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.
There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change.  Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments.  The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast.  The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.

Tags: accretion, cascade-longview, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, columbia-river, continental-island-shore-complex, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, effects-of-coastal-change, end-point-rate, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, historic-shoreline, national-assessment-of-shoreline-change-project, north-america, oceans, oregon, oregon-washington-vancouver-coast-and-shelf-ecoregion, pacific-coast, pacific-northwest, seb-arago, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-erosion, short-term-shoreline-change-rate, tillamook-bay, transect, u-s-geological-survey, umpqua-siletz, united-states, usgs, usgs-4313b86b-335c-41d1-82bf-5c9c2df1282c, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE 2016 Remap Existing Vegetation Height (EVH) Micronesia

LANDFIRE's (LF) 2016 Remap (Remap) Existing Vegetation Height (EVH) represents the average height of the dominant vegetation for a 30m cell. EVH is produced separately for tree, shrub, and herbaceous lifeforms using training data depicting the average height weighted by species cover and Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) lifeform. Decision tree models using field reference data, lidar, Landsat, and ancillary data are developed separately for each lifeform, then lifeform specific height class layers are merged along with land cover into a single EVH product. EVH ranges are continuous for herbaceous lifeform ranging from 0.1 to 1 meter with decimeter increments, 0.1 to 3 meters for shrub lifeform, and 1 to 99 meters for tree lifeform. If the height values of each lifeform exceed the continuous value range, they are binned into the appropriate maximum height class. EVH is then reconciled through QA/QC measures to ensure lifeform is synchronized with both Existing Vegetation Cover (EVC) and EVT products. Disturbance events not visible in the source imagery are accounted for by using LF Remap Annual Disturbance products. LF uses EVH as an input for LF Remap Fuel Vegetation Cover (FVH).

Tags: biota, evh, existing-vegetation-height, federated-states-of-micronesia, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, insular-areas, landfire-2016-remap, lf-2016-remap, micronesia, oconus, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, usgs-3e4bc952-bd41-4ab3-8cb8-77f76044cdc4
Organization: Department of the Interior
The Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment Inventory (ver. 2.0, September 2024)

The Department of the Interior (DOI) Office of Wildland Fire and USGS created the Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment Inventory to meet the Monitoring, Maintenance, and Treatment Plan requirements under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). It provides an inventory of key national, regional, and state wildfire risk and fire hazard assessments useful for understanding different characterizations of fire risk. Some of the assessments may be useful for communicating contributions toward risk reduction of treatments funded by DOI, including investments under BIL. For each assessment, the inventory provides a description and information about the spatial extent, resolution, fire modeling approach, values considered (assets and resources), and vintage of LANDFIRE and fire data used. The aggregated data can help communicate treatment application priorities to DOI landscapes. In addition, this inventory recognizes that no assessment perfectly represents all lands, as risk assessment purposes, values at risk and methodology used create variation among the assessments.

Tags: biota, risk-and-hazard-assessment, usgs-63ef742dd34efa0476b03760, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Enhanced TIFF Sidescan-Sonar Mosaic of Boulder Basin - Lake Mead, Nevada:  Geographic Coordinates

Lake Mead is a large interstate reservoir located in the Mojave Desert of southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona.  It was impounded in 1935 by the construction of Hoover Dam and is one of a series of multi-purpose reservoirs on the Colorado River.  The lake extends 183 km from the mouth of the Grand Canyon to Black Canyon, the site of Hoover Dam, and provides water for residential, commercial, industrial, recreational, and other non-agricultural users in communities across the southwestern United States.  Extensive research has been conducted on Lake Mead, but a majority of the studies have involved determining levels of anthropogenic contaminants such as synthetic organic compounds, heavy metals and dissolved ions, furans/dioxins, and nutrient loading in lake water, sediment, and biota (Preissler, et al., 1998; Bevans et al, 1996; Bevans et al., 1998; Covay and Leiker, 1998; LaBounty and Horn, 1997; Paulson, 1981).  By contrast, little work has focused on the sediments in the lake and the processes of deposition (Gould, 1951).  To address these questions, sidescan-sonar imagery and high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles were collected throughout Lake Mead by the USGS in cooperation with researchers from University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV).  These data allow a detailed mapping of the surficial geology and the distribution and thickness of sediment that has accumulated in the lake since the completion of Hoover Dam.  Results indicate that the accumulation of post-impoundment sediment is primarily restricted to former river and stream beds that are now submerged below the lake while the margins of the lake appear to be devoid of post-impoundment sediment.  The sediment cover along the original Colorado River bed is continuous and is typically greater than 10 m thick through much of its length.  Sediment thickness in some areas exceeds 35 m while the smaller tributary valleys typically are filled with less than 4 m of sediment.  Away from the river beds that are now covered with post-impoundment sediment, pre-impoundment alluvial deposits and rock outcrops are still exposed on the lake floor.

Tags: arizona, black-canyon, boulder-basin, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hoover-dam, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, images, inlandwaters, lake-mead, lakebed-acoustic-reflectivity, las-vegas, las-vegas-bay, mojave-desert, mosaic, nevada, north-america, ofr03-320, open-file-report, reservoir, sidescan, sidescan-sonar, tiff, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-9e00399c-692f-4f58-8dd9-e07933f5b51e, woods-hole-field-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
GIS data from 1934 - 2019 for Moenkopi Wash, AZ

These data were compiled to perform analyses of hydrologic change, changes in sediment transport, and channel change within Moenkopi Wash, Arizona. Objective(s) of our study were to quantify the magnitude and timing of changes in hydrology, sediment transport, and channel form within Moenkopi Wash and to determine the downstream effects of those changes on sediment delivery downstream to the Little Colorado River, and the Colorado River. These data represent instantaneous discharge records, suspended-sediment sample records, topographic survey data, historical aerial imagery, and channel polygons and centerlines mapped on the historical imagery. Instantaneous discharge records in this study began in 1926 and extend to 2022 and were collected at 5 different stream gages within Moenkopi Wash. Suspended-sediment samples were collected between 1948 and 2022 at four stream gage locations. Topographic datasets were collected by field surveys between 1940 and 2016 at five stream gage locations. Aerial imagery datasets were collected in the 1930s, 1952, 1968, 1979, 1992, 1997, 2007, 2013, and 2019. The 1968 and 1979 aerial imagery was collected by the U. S. Geological Survey. The 1952 imagery was collected by the U.S. Army Map Service. The 1992 and 1997 imagery were collected by the National Aerial Imagery Program. The 2007, 2013 and 2019 aerial images were collected by the National Agricultural Program. These data can be used to analyze changes in hydrology, sediment transport, and channel change within Moenkopi Wash.

Tags: active-channel-boundaries, aerial-imagery-data, aerial-photography, arizona, biogeomorphic-feedbacks, biota, cameron, channel-boundaries, channel-centerlines, channel-change, channel-form, channel-narrowing, channel-polygons, colorado-river, cross-section-shape, data-release, dryland-rivers, field-activity-logs, field-inventory-and-monitoring, field-surveys, floods, geomorphology, historical-aerial-imagery, hydrologic-change, hydrology, image-collections, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, instantaneous-discharge-records, little-colorado-river, moenkopi, moenkopi-wash, national-aerial-imagery-program, national-agricultural-program, northern-arizona, orthoimagery, riparian-vegetation, sediment-delivery, sediment-geochemistry, sediment-transport, sedimentation, sedimentology, shonto, stream-discharge, stream-gage-locations, stream-gage-measurement, stream-gages, suspended-material-water, suspended-sediment-sample-records, topographic-survey-data, tuba-city, u-s-army-map-service, u-s-geological-survey, usgs-653c04ddd34ee4b6e05bc2fd, vegetation, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Site 0527 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-611f136fd34e40dd9c01d1fb, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior