AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National 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 mapping component of the BLCA project used a combination of methods to interpret and delineate vegetation polygons. Initial line work was prepared by USBOR photointerpreters who delineated the most contrasting signatures, e.g., water bodies, exposed shoreline, unvegetated geology, land use types, and vegetation at the physiognomic level. The project photo interpreter used this baseline mapping and refined it by examining digital orthophotos in stereo. The stereo photography was used as needed to distinguish fine scale vegetation patterns. Ancillary datasets such as plot and observation point data and classification and local descriptions of plant associations were used by the photointerpreter to assist with map class definitions and manual delineations.

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 Apostle Islands 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.

Features were interpreted by using high-quality stereoscopes over light tables and 1:12,000-scale, color-infrared aerial photographs dated October 2004 (during fall leaf change). Polygon units were mapped mostly to a 0.5-ha minimum mapping unit. An ancillary set of 1:24,000-scale, true-color aerial photos dated April 2005 (during leaf-off conditions) covering the entire APIS lands were used for additional reference during mapping. The interpreted data were digitally and spatially referenced, making the spatial database layers usable in a geographic information system.

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
Mapping Extent for Sidescan Sonar and Bathymetry Data, 2014-2015, Gateway National Recreation Area

Polygon shapefile showing the coverage area of the acoustic mapping at Sandy Hook, NJ between July 2015 and August 2015. The side scan sonar survey was done simultaneously with the bathymetry swath survey and used an EdgeTech Model 4125 Towfish bow-mounted from Lookdown at 400 and 900 kHz. The 4125 Towfish utilizes EdgeTech’s Full Spectrum CHIRP technology to produce higher resolution images than a non-CHIRP system. EdgeTech Discovery Software was used to acquire the side scan sonar data using the JSF format at a resolution of about 2.3 cm. All JSF files collected using EdgeTech’s Discover Software were processed using John Gann’s Chesapeake Technology SonarWiz5. Dimensions of contacts should be considered accurate to +/- 30% of the measured dimensions. This system also records the direct arrival intensity data.

Tags: bathymetry, benthic-ecology, benthic-habitat, benthic-habitat-mapping, gate, gateway-national-recreation-area, hurricane-sandy, hxsandy, marine-geology, ncbn, new-jersey, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, sandy-hook, seafloor, seafloor-mapping, sediment, sidescan-sonar, submerged-habitat, submerged-habitat-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Glacier Bay sea otter survey tracklogs (SO_E)

A zip package containing timestamped GPS trackpoints recorded during all sea otter aerial surveys in one year presented as one GPX-formatted XML file per survey flight. Each trackpoint reflects timestamp, atitude, longitude, and elevation.

The detailed content is defined in SOP 15 of the protocol package

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-marine-communities, enhydra-lutris, enhydra-lutris-lutris, glacier-bay, sea-otter, tracklog
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bathymetry Data, 2014-2015, Gateway National Recreation Area

The side scan sonar survey was done simultaneously with the bathymetry swath survey and used an EdgeTech Model 4125 Towfish bow-mounted from Lookdown at 400 and 900 kHz. The 4125 Towfish utilizes EdgeTech’s Full Spectrum CHIRP technology to produce higher resolution images than a non-CHIRP system. EdgeTech Discovery Software was used to acquire the side scan sonar data using the JSF format at a resolution of about 2.3 cm. All JSF files collected using EdgeTech’s Discover Software were processed using John Gann’s Chesapeake Technology SonarWiz5. Dimensions of contacts should be considered accurate to +/- 30% of the measured dimensions. This system also records the direct arrival intensity data.

Tags: bathymetry, benthic-ecology, benthic-habitat, benthic-habitat-mapping, gate, gateway-national-recreation-area, hurricane-sandy, hxsandy, marine-geology, ncbn, new-jersey, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, sandy-hook, seafloor, seafloor-mapping, sediment, sidescan-sonar, submerged-habitat, submerged-habitat-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cape Krusenstern National Monument 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, cakr, cape-krusenstern-national-monument, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
HAVO CCC Construction 1934-1942

During the Great Depression, local men from Hawaiʻi were recruited to work on projects to conserve natural resources and build public infrastructure as a part of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Many of the projects they worked on have a lasting impact to this day. The resources for this StoryMap allow the public to learn more about their experiences in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. This content was created in 2025 and is maintained by Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park Cultural Resource Management staff.

Tags: hawaii-national-park, hnp
Organization: Department of the Interior
SFCN Corridors of Invasiveness Survey Shapefiles - Everglades National Park, West Region (2014)

Shapefiles from the 2014 monitoring including field of view estimates, infested areas, exotic plant waypoints, and tracklines.

Tags: corridors-of-invasiveness, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-plants, everglades, everglades-national-park, exotic-plants, invasive-plant-monitoring-dataset, invasive-plants, invasive-species, national-park-service, south-florida, south-florida-caribbean-network
Organization: Department of the Interior
National Park Service Jurisdiction in the District of Columbia, National Capital Region NPS

These polygon datasets represent the jurisdictional park boundaries for the National Park Service (NPS) units in the District of Columbia. 

These boundaries are somewhat equivalent to tract data whereby individually legislated areas are maintained as separate polygons. For a dataset where those polygons are dissolved for a cleaner appearance on maps, see Park Management (Jurisdictional) Boundaries, National Capital Region NPS (https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2305168).

These boundaries identify the land the is owned and managed by the NPS including which NPS administrative unit manages it.  This boundary is equivalent to the type of boundary that is displayed on park brochure maps.

Tags: boundaries, dc, district-of-columbia, jurisdiction, maryland, md, va, virginia, west-virginia, wv
Organization: Department of the Interior
PLOSONE Caribou Diet and Hormone Data

Raw data used in the analysis detailed in Citation: Joly K, Wasser SK, Booth R (2015) Non-  Invasive Assessment of the Interrelationships of Diet,  Pregnancy Rate, Group Composition, and  Physiological and Nutritional Stress of Barren-Ground  Caribou in Late Winter. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127586.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0127586

Tags: alaska, caribou, data, dataset, diets, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-mammals, hormone, nutrition, pregnancy, rangifer-tarandus, reindeer, sex-ratio, stress
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Washita Battlefield National Historic Site

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.

Since WABA represented a fairly small and accessible site no new imagery or aerial photography was deemed necessary for this project. Instead existing sources of imagery were evaluated and two NAIP products were selected to be used as base maps. Images included the 2003 and 2005 NAIP products. The 2003 had 1-meter resolution and the 2005 had 2-meter resolution. Both were acquired at 1:12,000-scale, which is adequate for vegetation mapping purposes. The 2003 imagery was acquired in true color and at higher resolution that helps highlight subtle differences in vegetation.

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 Pipe Spring 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.

Because of budget limitations, the NCPN decided to use existing imagery rather than fly new stereo and orthophotography for the PISP vegetation mapping project. NCPN staff and partners worked with 2006 true-color orthophotographs available through the State of Utah to delineate polygons. The acquired photography had relatively low contrast and 1m resolution (i.e., objects smaller than 1m in diameter, including most shrubs, are usually indistinguishable); however, vegetation boundaries were generally easy to distinguish.

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 Richmond National Battlefield 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.

Aerial photography from 2001 served as the base map, and field sampling was conducted from 2002–2006. Spatial data were digitized onscreen over digital orthophoto mosaics created from scanned color infrared, stereo pair 1:6,000 scale aerial photography using a 0.5 hectare minimum mapping unit.

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 Petersburg 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.

Two sets of digital orthophoto mosaics, leaf-on (fall) and leaf-off (spring), were created for Petersburg National Battlefield. To achieve manageable file sizes, each set is made up of five files that, together, cover the entire geographic extent of the park. Kucera International acquired color infrared, stereo pair 1:6,000 scale aerial photography for the leaf-on mosaics on October 23, 2001, and for the leaf-off mosaics on February 28, 2002. The photography was delivered to the NPS, quality checked, accepted as provided, and sent to NCSU-CEO.

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 San Antonio Missions 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.

Since SAAN represented a fairly small and accessible site no new imagery or aerial photography was acquired. Instead, existing sources of imagery were evaluated and three NAIP products were selected. These included the 2003, 2004, and 2005 NAIP ortho-photos. The 2003 and 2004 imagery had 1-meter resolution and the 2005 had 2-meter resolution and all were acquired at 1:12,000-scale. The 2003 and 2004 were acquired in color infrared format and the 2005 was true color.

2005 - 1:12,000-scale true color ortho-rectified imagery, compressed county
mosaic, 2 meter pixel resolution
2004 - 1:12,000-scale color infrared digital ortho-imagery, compressed county
mosaic, 1 meter pixel resolution
2003 - 1:12,000-scale color infrared digital ortho-imagery, compressed county
mosaic, 1 meter pixel resolution

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
Carter G. Woodson Home National Historical Site 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, carter-g-woodson-home, carter-g-woodson-home-national-historic-site, cawo, district-of-columbia, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, national-capital-region, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Glacier Bay sea otter bathymetry layer package (SO_J)

ESRI layer of bathymetry of Glacier Bay that is used as a boundary layer for restricting movement of sea otters to marine environments and for limiting inference to Glacier Bay.  Covariates including depth, distance to shore, slope of ocean floor, and shoreline complexity are derived from the bathymetry shapefile.

The detailed content is defined in SOP 20 of the protocol package.

Tags: bathymetry, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-mammals, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-marine-communities, enhydra-lutris, enhydra-lutris-kenyoni, glacier-bay, northern-sea-otter, sea-otter
Organization: Department of the Interior
Capulin Volcano 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, capulin-volcano-national-monument, cavo, intermountain-region, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, national-park-service, new-mexico, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Hagerman Fossil Beds 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.

HAFO represented a fairly small and accessible site, no new imagery or aerial photography was deemed necessary for this project. Instead, existing sources of imagery were evaluated and 2 NAIP products were selected to be used as base maps. These included the 2004 and 2006 NAIP products. The 2004 products had 1-meter resolution and were acquired at 1:12,000-scale, which is adequate for vegetation mapping purposes. The 2006 product had 2-meter resolution and was acquired in true-color infrared format. The 2006 imagery was more recent than the 2004 and although it had a coarser resolution, it did highlight all of the recent changes to the landscape such as fires, new roads, tree removals, etc.

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 Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

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.

High-quality existing photography developed by MassGIS was used as the base for the vegetation map (MassGIS 2007). A true color orthophoto mosaic was developed from a set of digital 1:5,000 scale medium resolution true color aerial images that are considered the new "base map" for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by MassGIS and the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA). The photography for the entire commonwealth was captured in April 2005 when deciduous trees were mostly bare and the ground was generally free of snow. The image type is 4-band (RGBN) natural color (Red, Green, Blue) and Near infrared in 8 bits (values ranging 0–255) per band format. Key information for the mosaic is summarized in Table 1. Appendix A contains additional detailed information regarding the aerial photography acquired from MASS GIS.

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: ILMI

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, illinois-michigan-canal-national-heritage-corridor, ilmi, 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
Organization: Department of the Interior
Carlsbad Caverns 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, carlsbad-caverns-national-park, cave, intermountain-region, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, national-park-service, new-mexico, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Bluestone National Scenic River

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.

Delineation of vegetation map classes was based on interpretation of digital aerial imagery utilizing additional digital and non-digital data sources. The primary imagery used as base layers for mapping were the digital orthophoto mosaics of leaf-off color infrared aerial photography flown for this project in March 2003 and leaf-on color infrared aerial photography flown for this project in October 2004. Additional digital aerial imagery sets which were used included leaf-off color infra-red digital orthophoto quarter quads flown in spring 1996 (USGS 1995) and true color leaf-off orthophoto quarter quads flown in spring 2003 (WVSAMB 2005).

Transparencies of leaf-on color infrared aerial photography flown in October 2003 (Vanderhorst et al. 2007) and the original transparencies used to produce the orthophoto mosaics for this project were examined on a light table to help distinguish signatures which were not apparent on the digital imagery. Utilization of these multiple sets of aerial photography often helped to overcome deficiencies (e.g. shading) of the primary orthophoto mosaics. Ancillary GIS layers used to assist photointerpretation included digital rastor graphs of USGS topographic maps and the landform and Ecological Land Unit models developed for this project.

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