AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Tribal Colleges and Universities and National Park Service Units Proximities

This project endeavors to makes connections between Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) associated with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) and National Park Service units to facilitate collaboration as part of the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs). Published May 14, 2024, from information collected in April 2024.

The information about the TCUs was taken from the TCU Roster and Profiles page on the American Indian Higher Education Consortium website and the websites for the individual TCUs in April 2024. In particular, the TCU profile was copied from the TCU Roster and Profiles page; the text was not written by an NPS employee.  TCU Roster and Profiles page: https://www.aihec.org/tcu-roster-and-profiles/.

As of May 2024, there are no specific plans to continually update this dataset, so please check the TCU Roster and Profiles page to get a the most current listing of Tribal Colleges and Universities.

Tags: aihec, american-indian-higher-education-consortium, cesu, cooperative-ecosystem-studies-units, crmm, mabe, tcu, tribal-colleges-and-universities
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Morristown National Historical Park

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 vegetation classification and mapping processes were conducted essentially in tandem. Mappers and ecologists conferred to review the list of potential associations, as well as the appropriate scale for mapping. Photos were viewed in stereo and preliminary polygon boundaries were delineated with a .30-mm rapidograph pen on polypropylene sleeves placed over the aerial photos. Preliminary polygons were classified and labeled with their appropriate USNVC association using the aerial photograph interpretation key and USNVC descriptions, and by conferring with NatureServe ecologists. The initial line work was also used to determine a sampling scheme for plot and observation data collection, and the USNVC association list resulting from the field work was used to aid polygon classification.

Once delineations were groundtruthed and rectified, USNVC association-level polygon line work was transferred to GIS shapefiles via onscreen digitizing in ArcView v.3.2a (ESRI 1992–2000). USNVC association and Anderson Level II (modified) land use names and codes were added to the attribute table of the vegetation shapefile. A separate wetland map for the park was created from the vegetation map polygons belonging to the Saturated Cold-deciduous Forest and Saturated Temperate Perennial Forb Vegetation formations.

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
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Coronado National Memorial

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 vector (polygon) map is in digital format within a geodatabase structure that allows for complex relationships to be established between spatial and tabular data, and allows much of the data to be accessed concurrently. Strict nomenclature was enforced for polygons and a unique name was assigned to each polygon. These reflected the verified physiognomic formation type by a prefix of representative letters (e.g., W = Woodland, SS = shrub savanna), followed by a number. Using ArcMap, polygon boundaries were buffered and excluded based on the distance equal to the radius of the selected plot size, positional accuracy of the map, and positional error of the GPS to be used by the assessment crew (Lea and Curtis 2010). The resulting polygons were converted to raster format and points were distributed using the “distribute spatially balanced points” function in ArcToolbox. This function uses the RRQRR algorithm (Theobald et al. 2007) to distribute spatially balanced points throughout the raster. Next, each point was buffered using the radius of the assigned plot size to create a circular area (see Figure 3-1) that was later used as a visual aid to delineate the survey area. These circular plot areas (polygons, essentially) and the plot centroids for all map classes were merged and assigned a unique identifier. All information was removed that could give an assessor any indication as to which class it belonged.

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
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Fort Caroline National Monument

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.

A final vegetation map for Fort Caroline National Monument was created to represent the vegetation occurring within the park during 2012. This product is the final of four steps necessary to produce an accurate vegetation map based upon aerial photographs. This includes the determination of the community element global (CEGL) codes (2008) and acquisition of aerial imagery (2012), using the aerial imagery, with ground truthing points (2014), to create a draft vegetation map, performing an accuracy assessment (2015), and then using all the available information to create a final vegetation map (2018).

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
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: WHIS

Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics (HIS) is a National Park Service (NPS) Water Resources Division (WRD) project established to track certain goals created in response to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). One water resources management goal established by the Department of the Interior under GRPA requires NPS to track the percent of its managed surface waters that are meeting Clean Water Act (CWA) water quality standards. This goal requires an accurate inventory that spatially quantifies the surface water hydrography that each bureau manages and a procedure to determine and track which waterbodies are or are not meeting water quality standards as outlined by Section 303(d) of the CWA. This project helps meet this DOI GRPA goal by inventorying and monitoring in a geographic information system for the NPS: (1) CWA 303(d) quality impaired waters and causes; and (2) hydrographic statistics based on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). Hydrographic and 303(d) impairment statistics were evaluated based on a combination of 1:24,000 (NHD) and finer scale data (frequently provided by state GIS layers).

Tags: 303d, boundaries, boundary, canal, clean-water-act, cwa, designated-uses, ditch, geoscientificinformation, his, hydrographic-and-impairment-statistics, hydrographic-statistics, hydrography, impaired-waters, impairment, impairment-statistics, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lake, marsh, national-hydrography-dataset, nhd, ocean, oceans, pond, regulatory, reservoir, resource-management, river, sea, seep, shoreline, spring, statistics, stream, swamp, tmdl, total-maximum-daily-load, water, waterfall, wetlands, whis, whiskeytown-national-recreation-area
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Fort Caroline 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.

Color infrared (CIR) aerial photographs of the park at 1:12,000 scale were acquired by Aero-Metric, Inc. on May 11, 2011. These photos were scanned and converted to digital orthophotographs at 0.3-meter (1ft) resolution before they were delivered to the National Park Service. Digital orthophotographs and hardcopy photographs in both film transparency and paper print formats were provided to the University of Georgia Center for Geospatial Research. Six photos in two flight lines were required to cover Fort Caroline National Memorial.

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
Ground-truth Sampling Locations and Data, Submerged Marine Habitat Mapping, Assateague Island National Seashore

This dataset shows the sampling locations for the ground-truth survey conducted along Assateague Island National
Seashore in October 2014 and October 2015. The ground-truth survey consisted of grab samples taken with a modified Young grab sampler. Grab samples were taken at each site. The attribute table of this dataset contains information about the grab samples, including the name and coordinates for each sample site, date of collection, and the volume of each sample.

Tags: asis, assateague-island-national-seashore, bathymetry, benthic-habitat, benthic-habitat-mapping, cmecs, hurricane-sandy, hxsandy, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, submerged-habitat, submerged-habitat-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastal/Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) Classification Data for  Assateague Island National Seashore

Habitat classification map based on surveys completed along the 58‐km long Assateague barrier island stretching from the Ocean City inlet in Maryland, down past Chincoteague Island in northern Virginia. The data was collected June 20th-25th, 2014 and May 12th - 21th, 2015. Full coverage side-scan sonar and partial coverage bathymetry data were collected using an EdgeTech 6205 Multiphase Echosounder. In total, 73 square kilometers were mapped at primarily at 100m line spacing and 80 m swath range per channel (to allow overlap between lines).

Tags: asis, assateague-island-national-seashore, bathymetry, benthic-habitat, benthic-habitat-mapping, cmecs, hurricane-sandy, hxsandy, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, submerged-habitat, submerged-habitat-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water-level data used in submerged marine habitat mapping, Assateague Island National Seashore

Water-level data used in submerged marine habitat mapping, Assateague Island National Seashore

Tags: asis, assateague-island-national-seashore, benthic-habitat, benthic-habitat-mapping, hurricane-sandy, hxsandy, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, submerged-habitat, submerged-habitat-mapping, tide, water-level
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sediment Classification Data, Assateague Island National Seashore

This dataset contains sediment grain-size classification data develop from during acoustic surveys completed along the 58‐km long Assateague barrier island stretching from the Ocean City inlet in Maryland, down past Chincoteague Island in northern Virginia. The data was collected June 20th-25th, 2014 and May 12th - 21th, 2015. Full coverage side-scan sonar and partial coverage bathymetry data were	collected using an EdgeTech 6205 Multiphase Echosounder. In total, 73 square kilometers were mapped at primarily at 100m line spacing and 80 m swath range per channel (to allow overlap between lines).

Tags: asis, assateague-island-national-seashore, benthic-habitat, benthic-habitat-mapping, grain-size, hurricane-sandy, hxsandy, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, sediment, submerged-habitat, submerged-habitat-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: PERL

Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics (HIS) is a National Park Service (NPS) Water Resources Division (WRD) project established to track certain goals created in response to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). One water resources management goal established by the Department of the Interior under GRPA requires NPS to track the percent of its managed surface waters that are meeting Clean Water Act (CWA) water quality standards. This goal requires an accurate inventory that spatially quantifies the surface water hydrography that each bureau manages and a procedure to determine and track which waterbodies are or are not meeting water quality standards as outlined by Section 303(d) of the CWA. This project helps meet this DOI GRPA goal by inventorying and monitoring in a geographic information system for the NPS: (1) CWA 303(d) quality impaired waters and causes; and (2) hydrographic statistics based on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). Hydrographic and 303(d) impairment statistics were evaluated based on a combination of 1:24,000 (NHD) and finer scale data (frequently provided by state GIS layers).

Tags: 303d, boundaries, boundary, canal, clean-water-act, cwa, designated-uses, ditch, geoscientificinformation, his, hydrographic-and-impairment-statistics, hydrographic-statistics, hydrography, impaired-waters, impairment, impairment-statistics, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lake, marsh, national-hydrography-dataset, nhd, ocean, oceans, pond, regulatory, reservoir, resource-management, river, sea, seep, shoreline, spring, statistics, stream, swamp, tmdl, total-maximum-daily-load, valr, water, waterfall, wetlands, world-war-ii-valor-in-the-pacific-national-monument
Organization: Department of the Interior
Benthic macrofauna sampling by grab-sample and sediment class, Assateague Island National Seashore

This dataset summarizes the species information derived from ground-truth survey conducted along Assateague Island National Seashore in October 2014 and October 2015. The ground-truth survey consisted of grab samples taken with a modified Young grab sampler. Grab samples were taken at each site. The attribute table of this 	dataset contains information about the grab samples, including the	name and coordinates for each sample site, date of collection, and the species composition of each sample.

Tags: asis, assateague-island-national-seashore, benthic-habitat, benthic-habitat-mapping, hurricane-sandy, hxsandy, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, species, submerged-habitat, submerged-habitat-mapping, taxa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Mammoth Cave National Park

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.

Large scale final map products were created within ArcMap and designed to show both the orthophoto coverage and the vegetation maps. For the vegetation maps, colors were assigned and the polygons labeled with the dominant vegetation and modifier and, where present, the second vegetation and modifier. For the orthophoto maps, the photos were simply plotted at the same scale and area coverage as the vegetation maps. Additional planimetric map data included roads, trails, hydrology, boundaries and a UTM coordinate grid. Legends are designed to provide full definitions of the vegetation and buffer classes and modifiers, as well as information about the park, map projection, data sources and authorship. All maps are projected to the Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinate System, North American Datum of 1984, in the local zone for the specific park

Map information- Veg Classes: 35 Polygons: 7,907 Avg Polygon size(ha) 2.58 Map Scale: 1:26,000

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
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park

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.

To produce the digital map, a combination of 1:12,000-scale color infrared digital ortho-imagery acquired in 2003, 1:12,000-scale true color ortho-rectified imagery acquired in 2005, and all of the GPS referenced ground data were used to interpret the complex patterns of vegetation and land-use. All imagery was acquired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Farm Service Agency’s Aerial Photography Field Office and the National Agriculture Imagery Program. In the end, 27 map units (14 vegetated and 13 land-use) were developed and directly cross-walked or matched to corresponding plant associations and land-use classes. All of the interpreted and remotely sensed data were converted to Geographic Information System (GIS) databases using ArcGIS© software. Draft maps were printed, field tested, reviewed, and revised. One hundred and thirty three accuracy assessment (AA) data points were collected in 2006 and used to determine the map’s accuracy.

GIS Database 2002-2005:
Project Size = 4,600 acres
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park = 674 acres
Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site = 418 acres
Base Imagery acquired from the USDA FSA Aerial Photography Field Office acquired through the National Agriculture Imagery Program:
2005 - 1:12,000-scale true color ortho-rectified imagery, compressed county
mosaic,2 meter pixel resolution
2003 - 1:12,000-scale color infrared digital ortho-imagery, compressed county
mosaic,1 meter pixel resolution
27 Map Classes
14 Vegetated
13 Non-vegetated
Minimum Mapping Unit = ½ hectare is the program standard but this was modified at
LYJO to ¼ acre.
Total Size = 1,080 Polygons
Average Polygon Size = 4.3 acres
Overall Thematic Accuracy = 92%

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
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Manzanar National Historic Site

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 MANZ spatial database and map layer was produced by CTI from 2010 imagery using 21 map units that were directly cross-walked or matched to their corresponding rUSNVC plant association/alliance or land cover types. The final map layer was assessed for thematic accuracy by creating contingency tables and the final overall accuracy of the map layer was determined to be 96% with a Kappa value of 95%. The vegetation mapping was conducted at MANZ in two phases. The first phase conducted by the USGS Fort Collins Science Center created the primary vegetation and associated spatial data layers using the 2005 NAIP Manzanar NE DOQQ imagery (acquired on September 3, 2005 from the Cal-Atlas Geospatial Clearinghouse at http://atlas.ca.gov/). Preliminary mapping was conducted by the USGS through a semi-automated process using a combination of the ENVI Feature Extraction Module (ITT Visual Information Systems, 2008) and ArcGIS software (ESRI, 2008).

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
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Little Bighorn National Monument

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.

After the field mapping crew finished the initial map unit polygon census, data was entered into a geodatabase. This data was quality checked and the final version was passed to WSAL. Polygons in the initial segmentation that were modified by crews as noted on the hardcopy maps supplied by the field crew were edited directly in the geodatabase. Any new map unit polygons created had a letter added to their original polygon-id field. A crosswalk table was created that linked the initial field key types to the USNVC series of hierarchical classifications and the field comments for each type. These classification attributes were then joined to the initial and final map units in the geodatabase.

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
Lava Beds 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, labe, land-status-ownership, lava-beds-national-monument, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, pacific-west, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior