AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
LANDFIRE Remap Forest Canopy Height (CH) Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands

LANFIRE’s (LF) 2016 Remap (Remap) Forest Canopy Height (CH) describes the average height of the top of the canopy for a stand. In disturbed locations CH is calculated from linear regression equations derived from Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) plot data output, but at non-disturbed locations it is assigned the midpoint of Fuel Vegetation Height (FVH) forested classes. In some instances, LF Remap assumes the potential burnable biomass in the tree canopy has been accounted for in the surface fuel model. For example, young or short conifer stands where the trees are represented by a shrub type fuel model will not have canopy characteristics.
LF Remap Annual Disturbance products are incorporated into CH to provide informed changes by disturbance type, severity, and time since disturbance (TSD). Annual Disturbance products provide a pre-disturbance scenario represented by LF Remap existing vegetation products, the reporting of pre-disturbance scenarios helps to calculate CH. Vegetation adjustments are then modeled in disturbance areas based on disturbance type and severity. CH is then used in the calculation of Canopy Bulk Density (CBD) and Canopy Base Height (CBH). CH supplies information for fire behavior models, such as FARSITE (Finney 1998), that can determine; the starting point for embers in the spotting model, wind reductions, and the volume of crown fuels.
CH also has capable fuels functionality, capable fuels calculate TSD assignments for disturbed areas using an "effective year." For example, year 2020 fuels may be calculated for the year 2020. the new process considers all the existing disturbances included in LF Remap and adjusts the TSD for these to the effective year (2020 in the example), making the products "2020 capable fuels." More information about capable fuels can be found at https://www.landfire.gov/lf_remap.php.

Tags: biota, canopy-height, ch, fires, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, insular-areas, landfire-2016-remap, lf-2016-remap, oconus, puerto-rico, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, us-virgin-islands, usgs-36cbc1a4-482a-43c4-9469-1a877d5de3f1
Organization: Department of the Interior
OahuN_ST - Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.2 transects with short-term weighted linear regression rate calculations for the Oahu North region from Camp Erdman to Kahuku, Hawaii.

Sandy ocean beaches are a popular recreational destination, often surrounded by communities containing valuable real estate.  Development is on the rise despite the fact that coastal infrastructure is subjected to flooding and erosion.  As a result, there is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes.  To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.
There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change.  Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments.  The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast.  The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.

Tags: accretion, baseline, camp-erdman-hawaii, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, continental-island-shore-complex, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, effects-of-coastal-change, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, hawaii, hawaii-ecoregion, historic-shoreline, kahuku-hawaii, national-assessment-of-shoreline-change-project, north-oahu, oahu, oceans, shoreline, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change-rate, shoreline-erosion, transect, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, university-of-hawaii-coastal-geology-group, usgs, usgs-36be0939-7300-4152-a508-d51a930555bd, weighted-linear-regression-rate, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
1-m backscatter mosaic produced from backscatter intensity data from sidescan sonar and multibeam datasets (BS_composite_1m.tif, GeoTIFF Image; UTM, Zone 19N, WGS 84)

Geologic, sediment texture, and physiographic zone maps characterize the sea floor of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. These maps were derived from interpretations of seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. The interpretation of the seismic stratigraphy and mapping of glacial and Holocene marine units provided a foundation on which the surficial maps were created. This mapping is a result of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management to characterize the surface and subsurface geologic framework offshore of Massachusetts.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, backscatter, bourne, buzzards-bay, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, composite-image, cuttyhunk-island, czm, dartmouth, elizabeth-islands, fairhaven, falmouth, geospatial-datasets, geotiff, gosnold, grey-scale, hydrographic-survey-h11077, hydrographic-survey-h11319, image-mosaics, klein-3000, marine-geophysics, marion, massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management, mattapoisett, mosaic, multibeam-backscatter, multibeam-sonar, naushon-island, new-bedford, oceans, penikese-island, resonseabat-8101, sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity, sea-ltd-swathplus-interferometric-sonar, sidescan, sidescan-sonar, u-s-geological-survey, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2006-1357, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2008-1004, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2011-1184, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2012-1002, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2012-1091, u-s-geological-survey-open-file-report-2013-1020, usgs, usgs-36afdfea-fae8-4514-9ebd-c6dc5d13971c, wareham, westport, whcmsc, woods-hole, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Nearshore Single-Beam Bathymetry Data: Madeira Beach, Florida, February 2017

In February 2017, the United States Geological Survey Saint Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (USGS SPCMSC) conducted multibeam and single-beam bathymetric surveys of the nearshore waters off Madeira Beach, Florida. These data were collected as part of a regional study designed to better understand coastal processes on barrier islands and sandy beaches. Results from this study will be incorporated with observations from other regional studies in order to validate operational water level and coastal change hazards models being expanded nationwide (National Assessment of Storm-Induced Coastal Change Hazards). The regional study area is Madeira Beach located on one of eleven barrier islands in Pinellas County in west-central Florida along the Gulf of Mexico. These barrier islands support highly developed and densely populated coastal communities, comprised of local residents, year-round tourist population, and undeveloped natural habitats within local and state parks. A measure of the nearshore bathymetry is useful for better understanding the interaction of the hydrodynamics and morphodynamics offshore and in the surf zone that ultimately control the beach response.
This USGS data release provides processed multibeam bathymetry (MBES) and processed single-beam bathymetry (SBES) data collected under the USGS field activity number (FAN) 2017-305-FA. This FAN has four subfans each representing one research vessel (R/V): 17TST01 (R/V Sallenger), 17TST02 (R/V Jabba Jaw, a 22-foot shallow draft Twin Vee [TVEE]), 17TST03 (R/V Shark, a 12-foot Yamaha personal watercraft [SHRK]) and 17TST04 (R/V Chum, a 12-foot Yamaha personal watercraft [CHUM]). The point data (x,y,z) are provided in two datums: 1) the International Reference Frame of 2008 (ITRF08) and ellipsoid height; and 2) the North American Datum 1983 in the CORS96 realization (NAD83 (CORS96)) for the horizontal and the North American Vertical Datum 1988 (NAVD88) with respect to GEOID12B for the vertical. Additional files include a single-beam trackline shapefile (.shp) and a 20-meter (m) cell size single-beam digital elevation model (DEM, .tif). For further information regarding data collection and/or processing please see the metadata associated with this data release.

Tags: bathymetry, earth-science-gt-oceans-gt-bathymetry-seafloor-topography-gt-bathymetry-gt-coastal-bathymetry, elevation, florida, geoscientificinformation, government-agencies-u-s-federal-agencies-gt-doi-gt-usgs-doi-usgs-cmg-sp, gulf-coast, hydrography, imagerybasemapsearthcover, location, madeira-beach-florida, marine-geology, ocean-characteristics, ocean-processes, oceans, single-beam-bathymetry, single-beam-echosounder, trackline, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs-36aba276-4814-4318-baf5-263255695912
Organization: Department of the Interior
Experimental coral-growth data and time-series imagery for Acropora palmata in the Florida Keys, U.S.A.

The USGS Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies project (https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/crest/) provides science that helps resource managers tasked with the stewardship of coral reef resources. This data release contains data on coral-growth rates and time-series photographs taken of colonies of the elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, grown at five sites on the Florida Keys reef tract from Spring 2018 to Autumn 2019. The data will be used to inform resource managers of the capacity for restoration and growth of this threatened species of coral along 350 kilometers of the Florida reef tract to aid species recovery throughout the western Atlantic. The datasets included here were interpreted in Kuffner and others (2020).
Kuffner, I.B., Stathakopoulos, A., Toth, L.T., and Bartlett, L.A. In press. Reestablishing a stepping-stone population of the threatened coral, Acropora palmata, to aid regional recovery. Endangered Species Research.

Tags: acropora, aquatic-biology, atlantic-ocean, calcification, carbonate-budget, coelenterates, coral, coral-reef, environment, florida, florida-keys, geoscientificinformation, image-collections, islamorada, marine-biology, marine-geology, monroe-county, ocean-temperature, oceans, photography, sea-floor-characteristics, time-series-datasets, united-states, usgs-369f04d6-b563-4eb8-a67a-69bf4e191995
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital data set describing ground-water regions with unconsolidated watercourses in the conterminous US

This data set describes ground-water regions in the United
States defined by the U.S. Geological Survey.  These
ground-water regions are useful for dividing the United States
into areas of roughly similar hydrologic characterstics and
water-use patterns. Most of these regions are very generalized
and were developed from a illustration published at a scale of
approximately 1:20 million.  The data set also includes
polygon features for unconsolidated watercourses taken from
1:7,500,000-scale U.S. Geological Survey map of productive
aquifers.

Tags: aquifer, environment, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, inlandwaters, region, usgs-369b4164-a40d-46cf-a29e-5db721070c37
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tone-matched enhanced TIFF sidescan-sonar image from Overton Arm, Lake Mead - UTM projection

Lake Mead is a large interstate reservoir located in the Mojave Desert of southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona.  It was impounded in 1935 by the construction of Hoover Dam and is one of a series of multi-purpose reservoirs on the Colorado River.  The lake extends 183 km from the mouth of the Grand Canyon to Black Canyon, the site of Hoover Dam, and provides water for residential, commercial, industrial, recreational, and other non-agricultural users in communities across the southwestern United States.  Extensive research has been conducted on Lake Mead, but a majority of the studies have involved determining levels of anthropogenic contaminants such as synthetic organic compounds, heavy metals and dissolved ions, furans/dioxins, and nutrient loading in lake water, sediment, and biota (Preissler, et al., 1998; Bevans et al, 1996; Bevans et al., 1998; Covay and Leiker, 1998; LaBounty and Horn, 1997; Paulson, 1981).  By contrast, little work has focused on the sediments in the lake and the processes of deposition (Gould, 1951).  To address these questions, sidescan-sonar imagery and high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles were collected throughout Lake Mead by the USGS in cooperation with researchers from University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV).  These data allow a detailed mapping of the surficial geology and the distribution and thickness of sediment that has accumulated in the lake since the completion of Hoover Dam.  Results indicate that the accumulation of post-impoundment sediment is primarily restricted to former river and stream beds that are now submerged below the lake while the margins of the lake appear to be devoid of post-impoundment sediment.  The sediment cover along the original Colorado River bed is continuous and is typically greater than 10 m thick through much of its length.  Sediment thickness in some areas exceeds 35 m while the smaller tributary valleys typically are filled with less than 4 m of sediment.  Away from the river beds that are now covered with post-impoundment sediment, pre-impoundment alluvial deposits and rock outcrops are still exposed on the lake floor.

Tags: cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, colorado-river, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, image-mosaics, imagerybasemapsearthcover, images, inlandwaters, lake-mead, lakebed-acoustic-reflectivity, las-vegas, mojave-desert, mosaic, nevada, north-america, ofr03-320, open-file-report, overton-arm, reservoir, sidescan, sidescan-sonar, tiff, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-369a0077-bd86-46d8-b7ea-d26de9e88d8d, virgin-basin, woods-hole-field-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
2010 Cape Canaveral, Florida Single-beam Bathymetry Data

Single-beam bathymetric surveys were conducted on July 27-29, 2010 along 37 cross-shore transects offshore from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The transects were spaced 500 meters (m) apart in the alongshore direction and each was approximately five kilometers (km) long in the cross-shore.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, bathymetry, cape-canaveral, cmgp, coastal, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elevation, florida, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, u-s-geological-survey, united-states-of-america, usgs, usgs-36be99fb-f13f-4ed9-8afb-79ceb8311c26
Organization: Department of the Interior
Individual Target Data-Collection Points for Nine Eagles Lake, Decatur County, Iowa

Point coverage of bathymetry target points for Nine Eagles Lake in Decatur Co., Iowa. 
The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a bathymetric survey of Nine Eagles Lake in 2004.

Tags: bathymetry, contours, decatur-county, environment, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, inlandwaters, iowa, lakes, nine-eagles-lake, usgs, usgs-3690da87-a0db-431a-a890-3d0fde95bd7e
Organization: Department of the Interior
KauaiS_baseline - Offshore baseline used to cast shore-perpendicular transects for measurement of historical shoreline positions along South Kauai, Hawaii (Waimea to Kipu Kai)

Sandy ocean beaches are a popular recreational destination, often surrounded by communities containing valuable real estate.  Development is on the rise despite the fact that coastal infrastructure is subjected to flooding and erosion.  As a result, there is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes.  To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.
There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline change.  Existing shoreline data measurements and rate calculation methods vary from study to study and prevent combining results into state-wide or regional assessments.  The impetus behind the National Assessment project was to develop a standardized method of measuring changes in shoreline position that is consistent from coast to coast.  The goal was to facilitate the process of periodically and systematically updating the results in an internally consistent manner.

Tags: baseline, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, coastal-processes, continental-island-shore-complex, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, effects-of-coastal-change, endpoint-rate, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, hawaii, hawaii-ecoregion, kauai, kipu-kai-hawaii, linear-regression-rate, national-assessment-of-shoreline-change-project, oceans, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change-rate, shoreline-erosion, south-kauai, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, university-of-hawaii-coastal-geology-group, usgs, usgs-368f9c22-8691-4fd1-97f7-342e43fda7ce, waimea-hawaii, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ivan_R2_elevation: Modeling the impacts of sand placement strategies on barrier island evolution in a semi-enclosed bay system: model input and results

Using version 5527 of the XBeach numerical model (Roelvink and others, 2009), barrier island morphological change was simulated at Little Dauphin Island, Alabama (AL) under different storm scenarios and restoration alternatives as described in Passeri and others (2025). The two-dimensional XBeach model can be applied to barrier islands to solve for time-dependent elevations (topography and bathymetry). The XBeach model setup requires the input of topographic and bathymetric elevations at each grid cell. Model inputs and outputs in the form of elevation at each grid cell are provided in this data release. For further information regarding model input generation and visualization of model output, refer to Passeri and others (2025).

Tags: alabama, bathymetry, coastal-processes, digital-elevation-models, elevation, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, gulf-of-mexico, little-dauphin-island, north-america, oceans, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, storm-surge, topography, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-3683a05d-033e-4fcb-a0b2-100ea6a473f1
Organization: Department of the Interior
Potentiometric-surface altitude of the confined aquifer, Wood River Valley aquifer system, south-central Idaho, October 2012.

Water levels in 93 wells completed in the Wood River Valley aquifer system were measured during 
October 22–24, 2012; these wells are part of a network established by the U.S. Geological Survey 
in 2006. Maps of the October 2012 water-table altitude in the unconfined aquifer and the 
potentiometric-surface altitude of the confined aquifer have similar topology to those on maps 
of October 2006 conditions. Between October 2006 and October 2012, water-table altitude in the 
unconfined aquifer rose by as much as 1.86 feet in 6 wells and declined by as much as 14.28 
feet in 77 wells; average decline was 2.9 feet. From October 2006 to October 2012, the potentiometric-
surface altitude in 10 wells completed in the confined aquifer declined between 0.12 and 20.50 feet; 
average decline was 6.8 feet.

Tags: aquifer, bellevue, big-wood-river, blaine-county, confined-aquifer, gannett, ground-water-level, hailey, hydrogeology, idaho, inland-waters, inlandwaters, ketchum, picabo, potentiometric-surface-altitude, potentiometric-surface-altitude-change, silver-creek, sun-valley, u-s-geological-survey, unconfined-aquifer, usgs, usgs-36758126-0d5e-4b99-9e67-d981c464e656, water-table-altitude, water-table-altitude-change, wood-river-valley, wood-river-valley-aquifer-system
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital data sets that describe aquifer characteristics of the alluvial and terrace deposits along the North Canadian River from Oklahoma City to Eufaula Lake in east-central Oklahoma

This data set consists of digital water-level elevation contours
for the alluvial and terrace deposits along the North Canadian
River from Oklahoma City to Eufaula Lake in east-central
Oklahoma for 1982. Ground water in 710 square miles of
Quaternary-age alluvial and terrace deposits along the North
Canadian River is an important source of water for irrigation,
industrial, municipal, stock, and domestic supplies. The
aquifer, composed of alluvial and terrace deposits, consists of
sand, silt, clay, and gravel. The aquifer is underlain and in
hydraulic connection with the upper zone of the Permian-age
Garber-Wellington aquifer and the Pennsylvanian-age Ada-Vamoosa
aquifer.
		
Water-level elevation contours based on water-levels measured in
1982 and some water-levels measured prior to 1964 for wells
completed in a terrace aquifer in the Oklahoma City area were
digitized from a published report. Water-level elevations in
this data set range from 1,280 feet above sea level in the west
to 580 feet in the east. The water-level elevation contours were
digitized from a mylar-base map at a scale of 1:250,000.

Tags: alluvial-and-terrace-aquifer, alluvial-aquifer, alluvium, aquifers, environment, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, ground-water-level-elevation, ground-water-level-elevation-contours, ground-water-levels, ground-water-vulnerability, groundwater, groundwater-level-elevation, groundwater-level-elevation-contours, groundwater-levels, groundwater-vulnerability, inlandwaters, north-canadian-alluvial-and-terrace-aquifer, terrace, terrace-aquifer, usgs-367032f7-848c-4454-8f49-d20a3acf93a0, water-level-contours, water-level-elevation, water-level-elevation-contours, water-levels
Organization: Department of the Interior
Simulated potentiometric surface contours of prepumping conditions in layer 16 of the transient ground-water flow model of the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

These simulated potentiometric surface contours represent prepumping (or steady-state) conditions for model 
layer 16 of the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS), an approximately 45,000 square-
kilometer region of southern Nevada and California. The numerical ground-water flow model simulates 
prepumping conditions before 1913 and transient-flow conditions from 1913 to 1998 after pumping of ground 
water began. The DVRFS transient ground-water flow model is the most recent in a number of regional-scale 
models developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to 
support investigations at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and at Yucca Mountain, Nevada (see "Larger Work 
Citation", Chapter A, page 8, for details).

Tags: amargosa-desert, ash-meadows, california, california-valley, chicago-valley, china-ranch, clark-county, clayton-valley, coal-valley, death-valley, death-valley-regional-ground-water-flow-system, environment, esmeralda-county, eureka-valley, flow-model, franklin-lake, franklin-well, garden-valley, geoscientificinformation, ground-water, hydraulic-head, hydraulic-head-observation, hydrogeology, hydrology, inlandwaters, inyo-county, kern-county, las-vegas-valley, lincoln-county, mesquite-valley, mineral-county, modflow-2000, mono-county, nevada, nevada-test-site, nye-county, oasis-valley, owlshead-mountains, pahranagat-range, pahrump-valley, panamint-range, penoyer-valley, railroad-valley, resting-spring, saline-valley, san-bernadino-county, sarcobatus-flat, sheep-range, shoshone, silurian-valley, southern-nevada, spring-mountains, steady-state-ground-water-model, stewart-valley, stone-cabin-valley, tecopa, transient-ground-water-model, usgs-3651953a-70e7-44d7-a963-1980d44473b1, yucca-mountain
Organization: Department of the Interior