AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Amistad National Recreation Area

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

The TOP 2015 imagery was mosaiced and manipulated using image processing and segmentation techniques (e.g. unsupervised image classification, normalized difference vegetation index, etc.) to highlight any subtle vegetation signature differences. All of the preliminary results were evaluated for usefulness and the best examples were first converted to digital lines and polygons, were next combined with other relevant AMIS GIS layers (such as the roads network), and the results were used as the base layer for the new AMIS vegetation mapping effort. Building off the base layer, all relevant lines and polygons were exported as shapefiles and converted to ArcGIS coverages. The resulting coverages were run through a series of smoothing routines provided in the ArcGIS software. Following the smoothing, all digital line-work was manipulated to remove extraneous lines, eliminate small polygons, and merged polygons that split obvious stands of homogeneous vegetation. The cleaning stage was considered complete when all resulting polygons matched homogenous stands of vegetation apparent on the TOP 2015 imagery. At this point, the mapping shifted to manual techniques and all vegetation lines and polygons were visually inspected and manually moved, edited and/or updated as needed.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mission 66: Modernizing Antietam National Battlefield StoryMap

This digital tour of Antietam National Battlefield focuses on how the National Park Service's Mission 66 program transformed the ways visitors experience Civil War history. 

 Mission 66 was an ambitious national program to modernize the parks, marking the National Park Service's 50th anniversary in 1966. At Antietam, Mission 66 reimagined the ways people could view, travel through, and learn about the battlefield landscape.

Tags: history, mission-66, storymap
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Vascular Plant Inventory Dataset, Kahuku

In 2003, the National Park Service acquired 46,943 ha of Kahuku Ranch, in the Ka'u district of Hawai`i. This addition to Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park includes a diverse assemblage of vegetation communities. Since little was known about the communities and their floristic composition, appropriate management practices could not be developed. Surveys conducted between 2004 and 2006 in Kahuku described vegetation communities and located rare, threatened and endangered plants, as well as disruptive alien weeds. Forty-one kilometers of transects and 177 vegetation plots were ground-surveyed, and 6.5 hours of helicopter surveys were conducted. Surveys encountered a total flora of 455 vascular plant species, of which 40% were native. Five endangered, one threatened, one candidate endangered, and seven species of concern were found, as well as 26 locally rare native species. Forty-three disruptive alien plant taxa in and near Kahuku were mapped. Several sites containing high numbers of either rare or invasive plants were identified.

Tags: aliens, biota, endangered, flora, havo, hawaii, hawaii-volcanoes-national-park, invasives, kahuku, kau, native, plant-taxa, rare, sensitive-species, threatened, vascular-plants, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Denali National Park and Preserve Tract and Boundary Data

These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that were created by the Land Resources Division. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

Tags: alaska, alaska-region, boundaries, boundary, dena, denali-national-park-and-preserve, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
East Potomac Park Photo Tour StoryMap

Photo tour of East Potomac Park, part of the history of public golf courses in Washington, D.C. project.

East Potomac Park is home to one of Washington, DC's, three historic public golf courses. It was built during a unique moment in history, the expansion of urban parks during the Golden Age of Golf from 1910-1930. It also provides unbeatable views of Washington, DC.

Tags: golf, history, storymap
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streams Ecological Integrity (SEI) Stream Temperature data package at Glacier National Park, Grant-Kohrs Ranch Historical Site, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and Rocky Mountain National Park 2007-2020.

Streams Ecological Integrity Stream Temperature data package at Glacier National Park, Grant-Kohrs Ranch Historical Site, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and Rocky Mountain National Park 2007-2020. This data package contains four dataset: 1) Raw dataset (primarily hourly data), 2) Daily summaries, 3) Weekly summaries, and 4) Yearly summaries. Included in the package is the R code used to extract and summarize the temperature logger data from the National Park Service Aquarius data system, and to create the exploratory data analysis figures.

Tags: ecological-integrity, loggers, romn-sei-data-package, stream-temperature, streams
Organization: Department of the Interior
Shenandoah National Park Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Database export (2020-04-15)

This database export was created to share the aquatic macroinvertebrate and corresponding habitat data collected from the Shenandoah National Park Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring program.

Tags: aquatic, benthic, data, database, invertebrates, monitoring, vital-sign
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Gulf Islands National Seashore

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

The project geodatabase links the spatial vegetation data layer to vegetation classification, plot photos, project boundary extent, AA points, and the PLOTS database. The geodatabase includes USNVC hierarchy tables allowing for spatial queries of data associated with a vegetation polygon or sample point. All geospatial products are projected using North American Datum 1983 (NAD83) in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 16 N. The final GUIS vegetation map consists of 1,268 polygons totaling 35,769.0 ha (88,387.2 ac). Mean polygon size is 28.2 ha (69.7 ac). Mean polygon size, excluding water, is 3.6 ha (8.9 ac).

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Glacier Bay sea otter count data from images (SO_D)

CSV files containing counts of GLBA sea otters and covariates derived from SO_C photos presented as one ZIP file per annual survey. The detailed content is defined in SOP 14 of the protocol package.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-marine-communities, enhydra-lutris, enhydra-lutris-lutris, glacier-bay, sea-otter
Organization: Department of the Interior
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park (MD): Natural Resource Condition Assessment NPS/HATU/NRR—2019/1897 - related geospatial dataset

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park is located in Dorchester, Caroline, and Talbot counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The park includes the 480-acre Jacob Jackson site administered by the National Park Service, parts of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park, and private land. The park offers abundant natural resources and seeks to preserve them to reflect the landscape and ambiance that was present when Harriet Tubman lived in Maryland more than 150 years ago. The site was formally added to the National Park System as a National Monument in 2013 and as a National Historical Park in 2014, recognizing Harriet Tubman’s life and work as a slave and freedom fighter.

Tags: harriet-tubman, harriet-tubman-underground-railroad-national-historical-park, hatu, maryland, national-historical-park, natural-resource-condition-assessment, nrca, underground-railroad
Organization: Department of the Interior
White Tailed Deer Inventory at Vicksburg National Military Park 2023 - Shapefiles and Scripts - As Delivered

White-tailed deer (WTD) can exert substantial impacts on the ecosystems in the Southeastern United States. WTD populations in Vicksburg National Military Park (VICK) have not been surveyed since 2010. This study aimed to develop a cost-effective visual count-density conversion method using WTD counts from spotlight surveys and density estimates from fecal-DNA spatially explicit capture-recapture (SECR) models. We conducted spotlight surveys of WTD in January, March, and May, 2023. Average visual counts of WTD were 96.0 in January, March, and May. Direct visual deer counts were greater than those of the 2009 VICK WTD spotlight surveys by 40%-220%. Average WTD relative abundances were 8.5 deer per mile in January, March, and May, respectively. Average density estimated by distance sampling models was 0.65 deer per ha. We used eight microsatellite markers to genotype WTD fecal samples, fecal DNA spatially explicit capture-recapture models estimated 778 WTD within VICK. The WTD densities were positively related to the proportions of forests and open fields in VICK. White-tailed deer appeared to be overabundant within VICK, causing concerns relative to WTD-human conflicts and exacerbating the risk of wildlife disease transmission. We proposed a method for estimating WTD densities with visual counts, which will allow park staff to convert WTD visual counts from spotlight surveys to WTD densities until substantial changes in VICK’s vegetation and/or habitat management occur. The timely, cost-effective monitoring of WTD populations can help park staff better manage natural resources within VICK, including the mitigation of the damages caused by overabundant WTD to natural resources.

Tags: deer-density-estimation, distance-sampling, edna, imd, national-park-service, nps, nps-inventory-and-monitoring-division, nps-species-inventory-program, spatial-distribution, spatially-explicit-capture-recapture-models, spotlight-survey, vick, vicksburg-national-military-park, white-tailed-deer
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Tract and Boundary Data

These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

Tags: boundaries, boundary, california, dwight-d-eisenhower-memorial, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Dry Tortugas National Park Tract and Boundary Data

These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

Tags: boundaries, boundary, drto, dry-tortugas-national-park, florida, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, southeast-region, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Devils Postpile National Monument Tract and Boundary Data

These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

Tags: boundaries, boundary, california, depo, devils-postpile-national-monument, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, pacific-west, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve Salt Marsh Classification

Loss of salt marsh habitat at Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve (TIMU) due to sea level rise has been identified by park staff as a concern. The purpose of this project is to classify and quantify the two dominant genera, Juncus and Spartina, of salt marsh grasses found within the preserve. These data can be used to calculate community changes from years past and into the future. Other classes such as water, trees, other upland vegetative communities, and salt flats were also quantified. Color infrared orthoimagery (2012), LiDAR data (2007), and Trimble eCognition software were used for this project to accomplish this object-based image analysis. This object-based technique groups neighboring homogeneous pixels and then uses contextual properties to enable the analyst to accurately classify a landscape.

Tags: atlantic-cordgrass, duval-county, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-estuarine-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-wetland-communities, ecological-framework-water-hydrology-marine-hydrology, environment, florida, jacksonville, juncus-roemerianus, map-package, needlegrass-rush, oceans, salt-marsh, saltmarsh-cordgrass, smooth-cordgrass, spartina-alterniflora, timucuan-ecological-and-historic-preserve, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geolocated bird observations and transect effort tables for the Central and Western Canadian Arctic Breeding Waterfowl Experimental Aerial Survey, 2005-2011

The geolocated counts dataset for the Central and Western Canadian Arctic Aerial Breeding Waterfowl Survey which was conducted from 2005-2011 presents the location of the species observation along with social group and count. All cases where the location, time, species, and social group are the same are summed. The location quality for each of these observations is also described. The transect effort dataset presents the date flown, the number of days it was flown, the length surveyed in kilometers, crew member and their seat for each transect. If the transect was flown on two days, the date of the first flight is used. If a transect was not flown, it is absent from the table for the corresponding year.

Tags: 2005-2011, aerial, and, arctic, bird, breeding, canadian, central, effort, experimental, geolocated, observations, survey, tables, transect, waterfowl, western
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bandelier National Monument Tract and Boundary Data

These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

Tags: bandelier-national-monument, boundaries, boundary, intermountain, lrdcab, national-park-service, new-mexico, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
FWS Cadastral Geodatabase - External Facing

This database depicts lands and waters administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in North America, U.S. Trust Territories and Possessions. It may also include inholdings that are not administered by USFWS. The primary source for this information is the USFWS Realty program.

Tags: boundaries, hq_nwrs, national-fish-hatchery, national-wildlife-refuge, nwrs, planningcadastre, united-states, waterfowl-production-area, wetland-management-district, wildlife-refuge
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stream Fish Inventories in North Cascades National Park Service Complex and Mount Rainier National Park, Washington tabular data

Inventory of stream fish in North Cascades and Mount Rainier National Parks tabular data, 2001-2003. In 2001-2003, Stream Fish Inventory surveys in North Cascades National Park Service Complex included: single-pass snorkeling in 7 tributaries to the upper Skagit River, 5 tributaries to Ross Lake (reservoir in the upper Skagit River), and 2 tributaries to the upper Stehekin River; four-pass snorkeling in 4 tributaries to the upper Skagit River, 5 tributaries to Ross Lake, and 2 tributaries to the upper Stehekin River; and three-pass (minimum) electrofishing in 2 tributaries to the upper Skagit River, 2 tributaries to Ross Lake, and 1 tributary to the upper Stehekin River. Six species of fish (five native and one non-native) were documented.

In 2001-2003, Stream Fish Inventory surveys in Mount Rainier National Park included: single-pass snorkeling in 2 tributaries to the upper White River, 2 tributaries to the upper Carbon River, 2 tributaries to the upper Cowlitz River, 2 tributaries to the upper Nisqually River, and 2 tributaries to the upper Puyallup River; four-pass snorkeling in 2 tributaries to the upper White River, 2 tributaries to the upper Carbon River, 2 tributaries to the upper Cowlitz River, 2 tributaries to the upper Nisqually River, and 2 tributaries to the upper Puyallup River; and three-pass (minimum) electrofishing in 1 tributary to the upper Carbon River, and 1 tributary to the upper Nisqually River. Five species of fish (four native and one non-native) were documented.

Tags: aurora-trout, bacon-creek, biology, biota, bridge-creek, brook-trout, bull-trout, cascade-river, charr, coaster-brook-trout, coho-salmon, distribution, dolly-varden, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-fishes, electrofishing, environment, fish, fish-creek, flat-creek, freshwater, goodell-creek, habitat, hozomeen-creek, huckleberry-creek, inventory, ipsut-creek, laughingwater-creek, lightning-creek, little-beaver-creek, marble-creek, mcmillan-creek, mo-04, mora, mount-rainier-national-park, mountain-whitefish, nccn, newhalem-creek, nickel-creek, noca, north-cascades-national-park, north-cascades-national-park-service-complex, north-coast-and-cascades-network, oncorhynchus-clarkii-lewisi, oncorhynchus-kisutch, oncorhynchus-mykiss, pacific-northwest, panther-creek, paradise-river, prosopium-williamsoni, rainbow-trout, reach, redband-trout, resource-management, river, rola, ross-lake-national-recreation-area, salter, salvelinus-confluentus, salvelinus-fontinalis, salvelinus-malma, sea-trout, shaw-creek, silver-salmon, snorkel-survey, st-andrews-creek, steelhead, stetattle-creek, stream, sulphide-creek, tolmie-creek, washington, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
SFCN Corridors of Invasiveness Shapefiles - Big Cypress National Preserve, South Region (2018)

Shapefiles from the 2018 surveys

Tags: big-cypress-national-preserve, corridors-of-invasiveness, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-plants, exotic-plants, invasive-plant-monitoring-dataset, invasive-plants, invasive-species, national-park-service, south-florida, south-florida-caribbean-network
Organization: Department of the Interior
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park Tract and Boundary Data

These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

Tags: boundaries, boundary, hawaii, kaho, kaloko-honokohau-national-historical-park, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, pacific-west, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Geologic Map of Kenai Fjords National Park and vicinity, Alaska (NPS, GRD, GRI, KEFJ, KEFJ digital map)

The Digital Geologic Map of Kenai Fjords National Park and vicinity, Alaska is composed of GIS data layers complete with ArcMap 9.3 layer (.LYR) files, three ancillary GIS tables, a Map PDF document with ancillary map text, figures and tables, a FGDC metadata record and a 9.3 ArcMap (.MXD) Document that displays the digital map in 9.3 ArcGIS.  The data were completed as a component of the Geologic Resources Inventory (GRI) program, a National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) funded program that is administered by the NPS Geologic Resources Division (GRD).  Source geologic maps and digital data used to complete this GRI digital dataset were provided by the following: U.S. Geological Survey (Alaska Science Center).  Detailed information concerning the sources used and their contribution the GRI product are listed in the Source Citation sections(s) of this metadata record (kefj_metadata.txt; available at http://nrdata.nps.gov/kefj/nrdata/geology/gis/kefj_metadata.xml).  All GIS and ancillary tables were produced as per the NPS GRI Geology-GIS Geodatabase Data Model v. 2.1. (available at: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/geology/GeologyGISDataModel.cfm).  The GIS data is available as a 9.3 personal geodatabase (kefj_geology.mdb), and as shapefile (.SHP) and DBASEIV (.DBF) table files.  The GIS data projection is NAD83 Alaska Albers.  The data is within the area of interest of Kenai Fjords National Park.

Tags: alaska, alaska-resource-data-file-ardf, blying-sound-1-x-3-quadrangle, dbase-iv-tables, digital-data, digital-geologic-gis-map, digital-geologic-map, environment, geodatabase, geologic-gis-map, geologic-map, geologic-resource-evaluation, geologic-resources-division, geologic-resources-inventory, geologic-unit-descriptions, geologic-unit-information-table, geologic-units, geology, geology-help-map-document, geoscientific-information, gis-data, grd, gri, kefj, kefjasl-age-date-sample-localities, kefjdke-linear-dikes, kefjflt-faults, kefjglf-geologic-line-features, kefjglg-geologic-units, kefjglga-geologic-contacts, kefjgol-geologic-observation-localities, kefjgsl-geologic-sample-localities, kefjmin-mine-point-features, kenai-1-x-3-quadrangle, kenai-fjords-national-park, kenai-peninsula, lith-table, map-table, national-park-service, north-america, nps, personal-geodatabase, prince-william-sound, seldovia-1-x-3-quadrangle, seward-1-x-3-quadrangle, shapefile, source-geologic-maps, source-map-information-table, source-maps, unit-table, united-states, us, usa, usgs-lithological-classification-table
Organization: Department of the Interior