AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Grand Portage National Monument

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

A set of CIR aerial photographs was collected on October 4, 2006. This photo mission was funded by the NPS VIP, and supervised by GLKN staff. This set of photography covered the entire GRPO vegetation mapping project extent at 1:12,000-scale and was the primary imagery used in photointerpretative mapping.
In support of mapping from the CIR photos, we used a set of TC aerial photographs (1:8,000-scale) that was collected May 2, 2003, providing deciduous leaf-off viewing of the entire extent. This photo mission was funded by GRPO and supervised by GLKN staff. Having the TC photos gave interpreters a definite advantage in determining evergreen tree and shrub components within forest communities otherwise obscured by deciduous tree canopy on the fall-season CIR photos, thus giving credence to Avery’s statement regarding lack of a single all-purpose film emulsion.
To assure stereo viewing and full aerial coverage, aerial photo missions were planned with a 60% forward-lap and 30% side-lap. Contact prints of both CIR and TC photo sets were produced for fieldwork use by mappers and vegetation crews. Diapositives of the CIR photo set were produced for photointerpretative mapping.

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
Fish Community and Associated Habitat Data From the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2001-2023 - Data Package

This monitoring dataset consists of fish community data for Buffalo National River, Ozark National Scenic Riverways and multiple prairie stream park units throughout the Midwest. The dataset includes fish species counts, site conditions, water quality and habitat measures, and stream discharge data for fish communities in Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Parks.  The dataset includes approximately 115,000 individual observations covering over 130 fish species observed at 11 NPS park units taken between 2001 and 2023. The overall goals of Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network fish community program are to monitor temporal changes in fish communities and relations between the fish communities and environmental factors. This monitoring information can be used by park managers to evaluate the effects of past and future activities and management decisions (either by park managers or others) on fish communities. The specific objectives for fish community monitoring are (1) to determine the status and trends in river, springs and small-stream fish communities by quantifying metrics (e.g. species richness, percent tolerant individuals, percent invertivores, and percent omnivores) that can be used to calculate multi-metric indices and (2) to estimate the spatial and temporal variability of fish community metric values and indices among collection sites, and relations between metrics and indices with various environmental variables (e.g. stream size, riparian characteristics, substrate characteristics, water quality, discharge, and land use).

Tags: buffalo-national-river, communities, fish, habitat, ozark-national-scenic-riverways, prairie-streams, river, small-stream, spring, stream, stream-discharge, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Klamath Network Landbird Point Count Monitoring Data Package

This dataset contains monitoring data for land bird monitoring at park units within the Klamath Inventory and Monitoring Network (KLMN). Landbirds are an effective tool for monitoring because: (1) many species are easily and inexpensively detected, (2) standardized sampling protocols had already been developed, (3) landbird species respond to a wide variety of habitat conditions, and (4) measuring status and trends for many species with different ecological requirements can inform landscape scale conservation strategies.

The KLMN landbird protocol contributes to regional and continental bird monitoring and is integrated with an extensive regional bird monitoring network. This effort has yielded a substantial regional dataset with information about landbird distribution, population trends, and population demographics.

Data are collected on species, time, distance, detection method, and breeding status in variable circular plots as well as vegetation surveys including cover and height for trees and shrubs, snag counts, and tree size.

Tags: ecological-data, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds, ecological-monitoring, habitat, landbirds, long-term-monitoring, national-parks, point-counts, species-checklist, variable-circular-plots
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of El Morro National Monument

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

Photointerpretation was done using 9 × 9-in, 1:12,000-scale, true-color photographs. Mylar overlays placed on each aerial photo allowed the project team to make notes and delineate polygons. At this stage of interpretation, a stereoscope was used to help recognize complex photo signatures and three-dimensional features. No attempt was made to label polygons at the initial stage of photointerpretation. Polygons were delineated using homogenous ground features as a mappable unit. These drawn polygons were later revisited after field-data collection in order to assign a map unit and other polygon attributes.

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
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

The 1999 CIR scenes were scanned and subsequently mosaicked to create a continuous coverage of PAAL and adjacent lands at a <1-m spatial resolution. The spatial resolution or image element (pixel) was determined by the original photographic scale and scanning resolution. Color infrared photography was scanned in the blue, green, and red wavelength ranges creating three image planes related to the green, red, and near infrared landscape components. All three image planes were entered into the classification. All landscape classifications employed a widely used and documented progressive clustering technique driven by an unsupervised K-means clustering algorithm (PCI Geomatics 1998, Ramsey and Laine 1997, Ramsey et al. 1998, Ramsey et al. 2002). In the classifications, the spectral values associated with each image element (pixel) were combined into spectrally similar clusters. These clusters were then associated with identifiable earth landscape features.

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
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

A set of 1:12,000-scale CIR aerial photographs was collected on October 9, 2005 (funded by the NPS VIP, and the photo mission was supervised by GLKN staff). This set of photography covered the full project boundary extent and was the primary imagery used in photointerpretative mapping.
In addition to the CIR photos, a set of 1:12,000-scale TC aerial photographs were collected May 11, 2004, providing deciduous leaf-off viewing of the entire extent. This photo mission was funded and supervised by GLKN staff.
Having the TC photos gave interpreters a definite advantage in determining evergreen tree and shrub components within forest communities that are otherwise obscured by deciduous tree canopy on the fall-season CIR photos, thus giving credence to Avery’s statement regarding lack of a single all-purpose film emulsion.

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
NCBN Coastal Topography Monitoring, 2026 Cumulative Data Package

Changes in coastal topography, whether caused by erosion or accretion, vary both spatially and temporally. Understanding these variations is key to early recognition of potential problems affecting natural resources and cultural resources in coastal parks. For managers, an understanding of the spatial and temporal patterns of geomorphologic change is basic to optimal management of any coastal park because the interface of marine and land systems: 1) is highly dynamic and driven by multiple forcing mechanisms; 2) results in alterations to resource patterns and dynamics at habitat and ecosystem levels; and 3) can eventually result in the loss of static resources. The establishment of local, long-term monitoring programs provides metrics to help understand the processes that are driving coastal change of beaches, dunes, and bluffs within the parks. Monitoring will be accomplished using survey-grade GNSS equipment that collects topographic data along pre-established, cross-shore transects spaced at regular intervals augmented by areas of special concern to the parks. A Spatial Monuments Network of high quality reference points will be established for each of the NCBN parks, providing a robust basis for long-term monitoring. Spring and fall surveys conducted in accordance with standard operating procedures will generate coastal topography datasets that will be organized and assembled by a data manager into a national database for subsequent retrieval and additional examination. Dimensional parameters will be measured to describe the beach-dune-bluff system, and attributes will be compared and analyzed in a cross-shore and alongshore perspective, providing information about the temporal and spatial changes on beach-dune-bluff morphologies in the parks. The overall goal is to create a replicable means of data gathering that is efficient, adheres to scientific principles, and meets the management needs of the coastal parks.

Tags: asis, assateague-island-national-seashore, beach-dynamics, beaches, caco, cape-cod-national-seashore, coastal-dynamics, dunes, erosion, gate, gateway-national-recreation-area, geology, geomorphology, monitoring, national-park-service, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, shoreline, shoreline-change, storms
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Dinosaur National Monument

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

Most of the reconnaissance was conducted concurrently with the vegetation plot data collection in 2002 and 2003. Photointerpreters visited the monument several times to assign plant communities or complexes to distinct signatures on the orthophotographs. Understanding the environmental drivers influencing vegetation patterns and identifying what information could be extracted from the project imagery were other important products of the reconnaissance. Field notes were written directly on paper plots of the stereo photographs; these helped to guide the photo interpretation and mapping process.

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
Invasive Plant Monitoring for the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2006-2022 - Raw Data

Raw data for the Invasive Plant Monitoring for the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2006-2022 dataset.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-plants, htln, invasive-plants, invasive-species, long-term-monitoring, monitoring, problematic-plants, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
White-tailed Deer Monitoring for the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2005-2023 - Raw Data

Raw data for the White-tailed Deer Monitoring for the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2005-2023 datasets.

Tags: arkansas-post-national-memorial, arpo, deer, heartland-network, htln, long-term-monitoring, mammal, monitoring, national-park-service, nps, odocoileus-virginianus, pea-ridge-national-military-park, peri, white-tailed-deer, wicr, wildlife, wilsons-creek-national-battlefield
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Ozark National Scenic Riverways

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

A set of 2003 1-meter color-infrared National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) photographs were acquired for this purpose. These data were degraded 2 meter similarly to the 2002 aerial photo data for data volume considerations. Greenness indices were derived and reflectance values in the infrared, red, and green wavelengths were obtained, as well as medians of these derivatives calculated within a 15x15 pixel moving window.

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
Fish Community and Associated Habitat Data From the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2001-2023 - Raw Data

Raw data for a monitoring data package consisting of fish community data for Buffalo National River, Ozark National Scenic Riverways and multiple prairie stream park units throughout the Midwest. The raw data includes fish species counts, site conditions, water quality and habitat measures, and stream discharge data for fish communities in Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Parks before any processing.

Tags: buffalo-national-river, communities, fish, habitat, ozark-national-scenic-riverways, prairie-streams, river, small-stream, spring, stream, stream-discharge, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
[PILOT] Herpetological Monitoring Surveys for the Southeast Coast Network: 2009-2010 - Raw Data

The Southeast Coast Network (SECN) initiated a pilot program using Visual Encounter Surveys (VES) and Automated Recording Devices (ARDs) to monitor amphibians and reptiles (collectively “herps”) in the network parks, with emphasis on amphibians. Amphibians were chosen for monitoring because of their global importance as ecological indicators, documented population declines and extinctions, and their high level of diversity in the Southeast. The overall goals of the pilot herpetological program were to determine trends in species occupancy, distribution, diversity, and community composition in SECN parks. VES monitoring efforts consisted of single time-constrained manual surveys conducted in the summer and early fall to visually identify herps at each sample site. Survey duration at each site was determined by four factors, 1) area to be surveyed, 2) vegetation density, 3) amount of downed woody debris (DWD), and 4) presence of freshwater aquatic features. ARD monitoring was conducted in the spring and summer with automated recording devices being deployed for a 10-day period. Park boundaries were used as the sampling frames and a suite of spatially-balanced random sampling locations were drawn from a 0.5-ha grid. Recordings were first machine processed to match vocalization hits using species-detecting algorithms, before being manually processed by researchers for QA/QC purposes. Over 9,000 individual observations covering approximately 70 species were made at 13 NPS park units in 2009-2010. Data collected under these two protocols are stored in the SECN data management system and are available online in the Integration of Resource Management Applications (IRMA) database maintained by the Inventory and Monitoring Division national office located in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Tags: acoustic-monitoring, anuran, ard, audio-recording, automated-recording-device, caha, calo, cana, canaveral-national-seashore, cape-hatteras-national-seashore, cape-lookout-national-seashore, chat, chattahoochee-river-national-recreation-area, cong, congaree-national-park, cuis, cumberland-island-national-seashore, fofr, foma, fopu, fort-caroline-national-memorial, fort-frederica-national-monument, fort-matanzas-national-monument, fort-pulaski-national-monument, fort-sumter-national-monument, fosu, frog, herp, hobe, horseshoe-bend-national-military-park, kemo, kennesaw-mountain-national-battlefield-park, long-term-monitoring, mocr, moores-creek-national-battlefield, national-park-service, ocmu, ocmulgee-national-monument, reptile, snake, timu, timucuan-ecological-and-historic-preserve, toad, treefrog, turtle, vocal-anuran
Organization: Department of the Interior
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Breeding Bird Monitoring Data for FY 2010

Data are part of the GULN Inventory and Monitoring Program Land bird monitoring project.  Data were collected by Mike Scully through a contract with GULN in 2010.  Data were entered into the USGS Breeding Bird Point Count database and export to Excel 2007 format by GULN data manager, Whitney Granger.  A separate reference is available for the field sheets that accompany this data set.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Riparian Vegetation Structure and Composition of Wadeable Streams Monitoring for the Northern Colorado Plateau Network: 2008-2021 – Raw Data

Because of the scarcity of water on the Colorado Plateau and their disproportionately high use by flora and fauna, riparian areas have been identified as an ecosystem of concern for Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) parks. Riparian ecosystems are potentially sensitive indicators of landscape-level change because they are linked to both aquatic and upland systems, perform important ecological functions, and are biologically diverse. Riparian systems face a number of anthropogenic threats, including stream-flow damming or diversion, channel-stabilization structures, invasive exotic species, livestock grazing, timber harvesting, agricultural clearing, groundwater pumping, and trail creation. These disturbances can alter watershed conditions and directly or indirectly influence downstream riparian ecosystems.

In the Northern Colorado Plateau Network, riparian monitoring of wadeable streams occurs in the streams of four parks: Courthouse Wash in Arches National Park, Armstrong Canyon in Natural Bridges National Monument, the Fremont River in Capitol Reef National Park, and the East Fork Virgin River in Zion National Park. This data package pertains to the vital sign riparian vegetation structure and composition. The goal for monitoring this vital sign is to determine long-term trends in vegetation dynamics in the context of changes in other ecological drivers, stressors, and processes. Above-ground structures of riparian plants modify the physical environment by shading and depositing litter, strongly affecting spatial and temporal patterns of soil-resource availability to other organisms. The data herein includes vegetation and surface cover, tree seedling counts, diameter and counts of overstory trees, canopy closure, and frequency of exotic species.

Tags: canopies, climate, diameter-at-breast-height, long-term-monitoring, riparian, trees, vegetation, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Stones River National Battlefield

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

Imagery Date: 10/25/2001, Scale 1:12,000, Area: 654 ac

Overstory vegetation was interpreted from the 1:12,000 to 1:16,000 scale leaf-on color infrared aerial photographs in 9 x 9 inch film transparency format.

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
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Breeding Bird Monitoring Data for FY 2011

Data are part of the GULN Inventory and Monitoring Program Land bird monitoring project.  Data were collected by Mike Scully through a contract with GULN in 2011.  Data were entered into the USGS Breeding Bird Point Count database and export to Excel 2007 format by GULN data manager, Whitney Granger.  A separate reference is available for the field sheets that accompany this data set.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Fort Donelson National Battlefield

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

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
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park coral data spreadsheet

Baseline benthic habitat survey data for Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park

Tags: acanthaster-planci, algae, asparagopsis, benthic-monitoring, caulerpa-serrulata, cladophora-sericea, coral-reef, crown-of-thorns, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-marine-communities, holothuriidae, leptastrea-bewickensis, leptastrea-purpurea, liagora, lobophora, montipora-capitata, montipora-patula, pavona-duerdeni, pavona-varians, percent-cover, pocillopora-damicornis, pocillopora-eydouxi, pocillopora-meandrina, porites-compressa, porites-evermanni, porites-lobata, sargassum, turbinaria, urchin
Organization: Department of the Interior