AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Acquisition log maintained in 2012 by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Connecticut River during field activity 2012-024-FA (PDF of scanned spreadsheet)

A geophysical and geological survey was conducted at the mouth of the Connecticut River from Old Saybrook to Essex, Connecticut, in September 2012. Approximately 230 linear kilometers of digital Chirp subbottom (seismic-reflection) and 234-kilohertz interferometric sonar (bathymetric and backscatter) data were collected along with sediment samples, riverbed photographs, and (or) video at 88 sites within the geophysical survey area. Sediment grab samples were collected at 72 of the 88 sampling sites, video was acquired at 68 sites, and photographs of the river bottom were taken at 38 sites. These survey data are used to characterize the riverbed by identifying sediment-texture and riverbed morphology. More information can be found on the web page for the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center field activity: https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2012-024-FA. Data collected during the 2012 survey can be obtained here: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PG1Q7V.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, backscatter, bathymetry, bottom-photographs, chirp, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, connecticut, connecticut-river, edgetech-424, essex, estuary, field-activity-2012-024-fa, field-activity-number-12024, geoscientificinformation, geotiff, ground-truth, imagerybasemapsearthcover, interferometry, long-island-sound, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, navigation-tracklines, north-america, oceans, old-saybrook, photographic-sampling, photographs, photos, r-v-rafael, raster, river, river-bed, riverbed, sea-floor, sea-submetrix, sea-swathplus, seabed-observation-and-sampling-system, seaboss, seafloor, seafloor-samples, sediment-samples, sedimentary-environments, sediments, seismic-navigation, seismic-profile, seismic-reflection, subbottom, surface, swath-backscatter, swath-bathymetry, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-b36af060-3141-4915-9bc9-f0a9acffd25b, video, video-observation, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Unprocessed aerial imagery from 12 October 2023 coastal survey of Southern California.

This is a set of 2013 oblique aerial photogrammetric images and their derivatives, collected from Point Conception to Port Hueneme with a fixed-lens digital camera from a crewed light aircraft, for processing using structure-from-motion photogrammetry and machine learning to study coastal geomorphic processes at high temporal and spatial resolution. JPG files in each folder follow the following naming convention: {CAM###}_{YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_ss}.jpg, where {CAM###} is the last 3 digits of the camera serial number, preceded by the letters "cam", and where {YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_ss} is the image acquisition time in {YearMonthDayHourMinuteSecond_hundredths} expressed in 24-hour time, as recorded by the camera's internal clock and written to the SubSecondDateTime field in the image EXIF data (for example CAM001_202009182311_50 would be the timestamp for an image with a SubSecondDateTime EXIF time/date stamp of September 18th, 2020 at 11:11.50 pm.

Tags: aerial-and-satellite-photography, aerial-photography, agents-of-coastal-change, anthropogenic-agents-of-coastal-change, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coastal-development, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-erosion, coastal-landslides, coastal-processes, datasets, distributions, earth-sciences, ecology, environment, geography, geologic-processes, geology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, habitat, image-analysis, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, infrastructure, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, remote-sensing, slope-processes, structures, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, united-states-and-territories, usgs, usgs-b37f8167-0bc6-4748-b61d-f5bb0f858f66, visible-light-imaging
Organization: Department of the Interior
Annual county atrazine use estimates for agriculture, 1992-2007

This data set contains annual county-level estimates of total atrazine use on 16 agricultural crops and four agricultural
land uses between 1992 and 2007.  For each year, atrazine use was estimated for all counties in the conterminous
U.S. (except California) by combining (1) proprietary data from the DMRKynetec (DMRK) AgroTrak database on the
mass of atrazine applied annually to agricultural crops, (2) county harvested crop acreage, from the 1992, 1997, 2002,
and 2007 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Censuses of Agriculture, and (3) annual harvested crop acreage from
the National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) for non-Census years between 1992 and 2007.  Annual DMRK
estimates of pesticide use on individual crops were derived from surveys of major field crops and selected specialty
crops in multicounty areas referred to as Crop Reporting Districts (CRD).  The CRD-level atrazine-use estimates were
disaggregated to obtain county-level application rates by dividing the mass (pounds) of pesticides applied to a crop by
the acreage of that crop in the CRD, to yield a rate per harvested acre.  When atrazine-use estimates were not
available for a CRD, crop, or year, an estimated CRD-level rate was developed following a hierarchy of decision rules
that checked first for the availability of a crop application rate from surveyed atrazine application rate(s) for adjacent
CRDs for a specific year, and second, the rates from surveyed CRDs within for USDA Farm Production Regions for a
specific year or multiple years.  The estimation method applied linear interpolation to estimate crop acreage for years
when harvested acres for a crop and county were not reported in either the Census of Agriculture or the NASS
database, but were reported by these data sources for other years for that crop and county.  Data on atrazine use
for the counties in California were obtained from farmers' reports of pesticide use collected and published by the
California Department of Pesticide Regulation-Pesticide Use Reporting (DPR-PUR) because these data are more
complete than DMRK survey data.  National and state annual atrazine-use totals derived by this method were
compared with other published pesticide-use estimates and were highly correlated.  The method developed is
designed to be applicable to other pesticides for which there are similar data; however, for some pesticides that
are applied to specialty crops, fewer surveys are usually available to estimate application rates and there are a
greater number of years with unreported crop acreage, potentially resulting in greater uncertainty in use estimates.

Tags: agricultural-pesticide-use, atrazine, conterminous-u-s, corn-herbicides, counties-of-the-conterminous-u-s, crop-management, herbicides, inlandwaters, usgs-b3874b15-ee9a-4f6a-82d8-6d134f94262b
Organization: Department of the Interior
Navigation, bathymetry, and water temperature points of ship position during continuous resistivity profile data collection in Manhasset Bay on Long Island, New York in May, 2008 (RESGPSPNTS_MANHASSET.SHP)

An investigation of coastal groundwater systems was performed along the north shore of Long Island, New York during May 2008 to constrain nutrient delivery to Northport Harbor and Manhasset Bay by delineating locations of likely groundwater discharge. The embayments are bounded by steep moraines and are underlain by thick fine-grained sediments deposited in proglacial lakes during the last ice age. Beach sand and gravel overlie the glacial deposits along the coast. The continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) surveys that were conducted indicate the existence of low-salinity groundwater in shore-parallel bands, typically 25 to 50 meters wide, along the shorelines of both bays. Piezometer sampling and seepage meter deployments in intertidal and subtidal areas of the two bays confirmed the presence and discharge of brackish and low-salinity groundwater. The large tidal ranges (up to 3 meters), and the steep onshore topography and hydraulic gradients are important variables controlling coastal groundwater discharge in these areas. For more information on the survey involved in this project, see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2008-007-FA.

Tags: bathymetry, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continuous-resistivity-profiling, crp, elevation, field-activity-number-2008-007-fa, geospatial-datasets, info-bank-id-t-1-08-li, location, long-island, long-island-sound, lowrance-gps, manhasset-bay, nassau-county, navigation, navigational-data, new-york, north-america, north-atlantic, oceans, point, r-v-terrapin, shapefile, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-b38d6458-e110-4323-b2c9-9489cd6840e7, water-temperature, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Single-Beam Bathymetric Data collected with Personal Watercraft collected within Great South Bay, New York (2014) in XYZ ASCII text file format

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, conducted a bathymetric survey of Fire Island, New York, from October 5 to 10, 2014. The U.S. Geological Survey is involved in a post-Hurricane Sandy effort to map and monitor the morphologic evolution of the wilderness breach, which formed in October 2012 during Hurricane Sandy, as part of the Hurricane Sandy Supplemental Project GS2-2B. During this study, bathymetry data were collected, using single-beam echo sounders and global positioning systems mounted to personal watercraft, along the Fire Island shoreface and within the wilderness breach, Fire Island Inlet, Narrow Bay, and Great South Bay east of Nicoll Bay. Additional bathymetry and elevation data were collected using backpack and wheel-mounted global positioning systems along the subaerial beach (foreshore and backshore), and flood shoals and shallow channels within the wilderness breach and adjacent shoreface.

Tags: 2014-325-fa, atlantic-ocean, barrier-island, bathymetry, bellport-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elevation, fire-island, fire-island-inlet, fire-island-national-seashore, geomorphology, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gps-measurement, great-south-bay, hurricane-sandy, hurricane-sandy-supplemental-fire-island, imagerybasemapsearthcover, mapping, marine-geology, narrow-bay, new-york, oceans, otis-pike-fire-island-high-dune-wilderness, sea-floor-characteristics, shoals, single-beam, single-beam-echo-sounder, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-b392c3d6-e66d-4c66-89bb-f6a6a4dbb7f8, wilderness-breach
Organization: Department of the Interior
EAARL Coastal Topography--Eastern Florida, Post-Hurricane Jeanne, 2004: First Surface

A digital elevation model (DEM) of a portion of the eastern Florida coastline, post-Hurricane Jeanne (September 2004 hurricane), was produced from remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Elevation measurements were collected over the area using the Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL), a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure ground elevation, vegetation canopy, and coastal topography. The system uses high-frequency laser beams directed at the Earth's surface through an opening in the bottom of the aircraft's fuselage. The laser system records the time difference between emission of the laser beam and the reception of the reflected laser signal in the aircraft. The plane travels over the target area at approximately 50 meters per second at an elevation of approximately 300 meters, resulting in a laser swath of approximately 240 meters with an average point spacing of 2-3 meters. The EAARL, developed originally by NASA at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, measures ground elevation with a vertical resolution of +/-15 centimeters. A sampling rate of 3 kilohertz or higher results in an extremely dense spatial elevation dataset. Over 100 kilometers of coastline can be surveyed easily within a 3- to 4-hour mission. When subsequent elevation maps for an area are analyzed, they provide a useful tool to make management decisions regarding land development.
For more information on Lidar science and the Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) system and surveys, see http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/overview/index.php and http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/tech/eaarl/index.php .

Tags: 2004, airborne-lidar-processing-system, alps, altimetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, dem, digital-elevation-model, digital-elevation-models, distributions, eaarl, eastern-florida-coast, elevation, experimental-advanced-airborne-research-lidar, florida, laser-altimetry, lidar, post-hurricane-jeanne, remote-sensing, topographic-mapping, topography, usgs-b3a3e000-23e9-435e-85f6-f16c5a42dd86
Organization: Department of the Interior
Upper Klamath Basin Landsat Image for June 24, 2006: Path 44 Row 31

This subset of a Landsat-7 image shows part of the upper Klamath Basin. 
The original images were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth 
Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). EROS is responsible 
for archive management and distribution of Landsat data products. The 
Landsat-7 satellite is part of an ongoing mission to provide quality remote 
sensing data in support of research and applications activities. The launch 
of Landsat-7 on April 15, 1999 marks the addition of the latest satellite to 
the Landsat series. The Landsat-7 satellite carries the Enhanced Thematic 
Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor.  A mechanical failure of the ETM+ Scan Line
 Corrector (SLC) occurred on May 31, 2003, with the result that all Landsat 
7 scenes acquired from July 14, 2003 to present have been collected in 
'SLC-off' mode. More information on the Landsat program can be found 
online at http://landsat.usgs.gov/.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandwaters, klamath-basin-restoration-agreement, landsat, oregon, sprague-river-basin, upper-klamath-basin, usgs-b3c1ebf2-6615-4689-a626-85ba7e581aec, williamson-river-basin, wood-river-basin
Organization: Department of the Interior
MS_AL_Cores_XYZ_metadata: Benthic foraminiferal data from sedimentary cores collected in the Grand Bay (Mississippi) and Dauphin Island (Alabama) salt marshes

Microfossil (benthic foraminifera) data from coastal areas were collected from state and federally managed lands within the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Grand Bay, Mississippi/Alabama; federally managed lands of Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge on Cedar Island and Little Dauphin Island, Alabama; and municipally managed land around Dauphin Island, Alabama. Samples were analyzed and quantified for foraminiferal census in order to document changes to the coastal wetlands, estuarine environments, and to aid in paleoenvironmental reconstruction. These data provide a baseline dataset for use in future wetland change descriptive and predictive studies and assessments. The data presented here were collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Sea-level and Storm Impacts on Estuarine Environments and Shorelines (SSIEES) project (https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/ssiees), Barrier Island Evolution Research (BIER) project (https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/bier), and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation-funded Alabama Barrier Island Restoration Feasibility Study (a collaborative study between the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Mobile District; the State of Alabama; and the USGS [https://www.usgs.gov/centers/spcmsc/science/alabama-barrier-island-restoration-study]). These projects aim to assess ecological and societal vulnerability that results from long- and short-term physical changes to barrier islands and coastal wetlands. Two sampling surveys were conducted between 2014 and 2015: 14CCT01 (15–19 September 2014; 2014-323-FA), and 15BIM09 (18–20 August 2015; 2015-322-FA). During those two trips, seven Russian peat auger cores were taken from marsh locations. Three cores from Dauphin Island were subsampled and stained with rose Bengal (rB) in the field to indicate life. Four further cores from Dauphin Island and Grand Bay were not stained. At the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center all cores were subsampled resulting in a total of 74 subsamples. Samples were processed in the laboratory to four size fractions (63–125 μm, 125–250 μm, 250–850 μm, and &gt;850 μm), of which the 125–250 μm and 250–850 μm fractions were picked at equal proportions of total sample and reported combined (125–850 μm). For additional information regarding foraminiferal collection and/or processing methods, refer to Ellis and others (2017). Further data collected on and surrounding Dauphin Island is presented in Ellis and others (2017) and Ellis and others (2018).

Tags: alabama, biota, dauphin-island, ecology, elevation, estuarine-ecosystems, foraminifera, fossils, geology, geoscientificinformation, grand-bay, gulf-of-mexico, location, microfossil, micropaleontology, mississippi, mississippi-sound, oceans, protists, salt-marsh, sediment, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-b3d22766-4b2e-492d-ab45-c6e06900e1cf
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Lathrop Wells South, Nevada Survey Part 3 of 3

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an
aircraft that recorded magnetic-field values and locations.  This dataset
presents latitude, longitude, altitude, and magnetic-field values.

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, f06027-inyo, f32023-nye, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, lathrop-wells-south, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, nevada, nv, residual-magnetic-field, total-field, united-states, usgs-b3da8ed0-7f6c-46d5-870a-314fe0eaf07a
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Wabash Valley, Illinois

Aeromagnetic data were collected along flight lines by instruments in an
aircraft that recorded magnetic-field values and locations.  This dataset
presents latitude, longitude, altitude, and magnetic-field values.

Tags: aeromagnetic-data, aeromagnetic-surveying, airborne-surveys, f17059-gallatin, f17069-hardin, f17151-pope, f17165-saline, f17193-white, f18129-posey, f21055-crittenden, f21101-henderson, f21225-union, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, il, illinois, in, indiana, kentucky, ky, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, residual-magnetic-field, total-field, united-states, usgs-b3dd2b4e-11ef-4719-ad67-00cae7b48187, wabash-valley, wabash-valley-fault-system
Organization: Department of the Interior
SIR-06-5129_thickness_trinidad_con

This digital geospatial data set consists of contours of lines of equal apparent thickness 
of the Trinidad Sandstone, the interval between the tops of the Trinidad Sandstone and 
the Pierre Shale, in Las Animas County, Colorado.  The U.S. Geological Survey developed 
this data set as part of a cooperative project with the Colorado Water Conservation Board.  
Sources and interpretation of the data that were used to prepare this map are described in 
Scientific Investigation Report 2006-5129 (Watts, 2006).

Tags: colorado, inlandwaters, las-animas-county, pierre-shale, trinidad-sandstone, usgs-b3fb46d0-1026-4f13-bffe-6c8a1f1abcf4
Organization: Department of the Interior
Subbottom and Sidescan Sonar Data Acquired in 2015 From Grand Bay, Mississippi and Alabama

From May 28 to June 3, 2015, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a geophysical survey to investigate the geologic evolution and estuarine sediment thickness in Grand Bay, Alabama and Mississippi. Specific objectives were to document the age and accumulation patterns of estuarine sediment to advance our understanding of sediment exchange with the adjacent marsh and sources of sediment to the coastal ocean. This investigation is part of the USGS Sea-level and Storm Impacts on Estuarine Environments and Shorelines (SSIEES) project. SSIEES seeks to better understand material exchange between marshes and adjacent estuarine water bodies along the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast, and determine the role extreme events (hurricanes, floods, and strong frontal systems) and sea-level change have on coastal change. This publication serves as an archive of unprocessed, digital chirp subbottom and sidescan sonar data, geographic information system (GIS) data and formal Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata, as well as processed sidescan sonar mosaics. Processed subbottom profile images are also provided in the "images" folder of 2015-315-FA_arc.zip. The archived subbottom trace data are in standard Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) SEG Y revision 0 format (Barry and others, 1975) and may be downloaded and processed with commercial or public domain software such as Seismic Unix (SU). The raw sidescan sonar backscatter data are in standard eXtensible Triton Framework (XTF)format.
These data are available for viewing using GeoMapApp (http://www.geomapapp.org/) and Virtual Ocean (http://www.virtualocean.org/) multi-platform open source software. In addition, these data files can be downloaded from the USGS Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System (https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov).

Tags: 2015-315-fa, alabama, chirp, coastal-processes, distributions, environment, estuarine-ecosystems, geology, geoscientificinformation, grand-bay, gulf-of-mexico, image-mosaics, marine-geology, mississippi, oceans, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, seg-y, seismic-reflection, seismic-reflection-profiling, sidescan-sonar, society-of-exploration-geophysicists, sub-bottom-profiling, united-states-of-america, usgs-b3febbfa-185c-4f56-aedb-9b5e55701a35
Organization: Department of the Interior
Experimental data comparing two coral grow-out methods in nursery-raised Acropora cervicornis

Staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, is a threatened species and the primary focus of western Atlantic reef-restoration efforts to date. As part of the USGS Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies project (http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/crest/), scientists investigated skeletal characteristics of nursery-grown staghorn coral reared using two commonly used grow-out methods at Mote Tropical Research Laboratory’s offshore nursery. USGS staff compared linear extension, calcification rate, and skeletal density of nursery-raised A. cervicornis branches reared for six months either on blocks attached to substratum or hanging from monofilament line (on PVC “trees”) in the water column. The results demonstrated that branches grown on the substratum had significantly higher skeletal density, measured using computerized tomography (CT), and lower linear extension rates compared to water-column fragments. Calcification rates determined with buoyant weighing were not statistically different between the two grow-out methods, but did vary among coral genotypes. Whereas skeletal density and extension rates were plastic traits that depended on environment, the calcification rate was conserved. Results show that the two rearing methods generate the same amount of calcium-carbonate skeleton but produce colonies with different skeletal characteristics, and suggest that genetically based variability in coral-calcification performance exists. The data resulting from this experiment are provided in this data release and are interpreted in Kuffner et al. (2017).

Tags: acropora-cervicornis, aquatic-biology, calcification, coelenterates, coral-conservation, coral-growth, coral-reef, coral-restoration, environment, florida, florida-keys, florida-straits, geoscientificinformation, hawk-channel, marine-geology, monroe-county, oceans, staghorn-coral, summerland-key, threatened-species, united-states, usgs-b4a3b25d-8cad-470e-afb4-005fa9474342
Organization: Department of the Interior