AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Big Bend 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.

The enormous size of the BIBE project area warranted the use of a modified or hybrid mapping approach. Early discussions determined the need to have an approach that included a coarse-level automated or machine-logic image processing stage and a fine-level stage that included vegetation signature interpretation and manual polygon delineation. Based on similar mapping work done by CTI in other desert environments, the automated stage would use multiresolution image segmentation routines to capture high contrast landforms and drainage/wash features, greatly reducing the time needed to delineate these by hand. The second phase would build off these segmented polygons to delineate the fine-level plant alliance/association based map units. For BIBE, 72 map units (62 vegetated and 10 land-use/land-cover) were developed. The final list of map classes/units was directly cross-walked or matched to corresponding plant associations and land use classes. BIBE map classes represent a compromise between the detail of the rUSNVC, new types found in the park (not currently in the rUSNVC), the needs of the resource management staff (e.g. detailed mapping of riparian, wetland, and non-native types), and the limitations of the imagery. An effort was made to crosswalk the final list of map classes/units to corresponding plant associations/alliances and land use classes. When a direct rUSNVC link to an association was not feasible, broader alliances or descriptive local map units (park specials) were created. In addition, some of the more widespread associations occurred across multiple map units.

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
Great Smoky Mountains National Park 3-Pass Electrofishing Sites

These data show the location (only) of Fish 3-Pass Electroshocking study and monitoring sites within the park. Electoshocking utilizes an electrical generator which emits a non-lethal electrical current through the water. This electrical shock is employed to either stun the fish or encourages them to swim towards the electrical field for survey collection.

Tags: fisheries, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, hydrology, vital-signs
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ste. Geneviève National Historical 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, lrdcab, missouri, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, ste-genevieve-national-historical-park, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mid-Atlantic Network’s (MIDN) Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Transect Photo Database

The Mid-Atlantic Network (MIDN) Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Transect Photo Database is Filemaker application for the purpose of collecting, storing, and exporting Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring transect photos collected at MIDN parks.

Tags: apco, appomattox-court-house-national-historical-park, booker-t-washington-national-monument, bowa, database, eise, eisenhower-national-historic-site, filemaker, fredericksburg-spotsylvania-national-military-park, frsp, gett, gettysburg-national-military-park, hofu, hopewell-furnace-national-historic-site, macroinvertebrates, mid-atlantic-network, midn-benthic-macro-photo-database, monitoring, national-park-service, pete, petersburg-national-battlefield, photo, photo-naming, rich, richmond-national-battlefield-park, stream-ecology, transect, vafo, valley-forge-national-historical-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mid-Atlantic Network’s (MIDN) Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Database

The Mid-Atlantic Network (MIDN) Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Database is Microsoft Access database application consisting of separate front and backend files for the purpose of collecting, storing, and exporting Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring data collected at MIDN parks.

Tags: apco, appomattox-court-house-national-historical-park, booker-t-washington-national-monument, bowa, database, eise, eisenhower-national-historic-site, fredericksburg-spotsylvania-national-military-park, frsp, gett, gettysburg-national-military-park, hofu, hopewell-furnace-national-historic-site, macroinvertebrates, mid-atlantic-network, midn-benthic-macro-database, monitoring, national-park-service, pete, petersburg-national-battlefield, rich, richmond-national-battlefield-park, stream-ecology, vafo, valley-forge-national-historical-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Oregon Caves National Monument, revised 2020

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 map consists of 267 polygons comprising an area of 1842.5 ha (4,552.8 ac) (Table 4). Average polygon size is 6.7 ha (16.6 ac). One-hundred-nineteen polygons were 100% dominated by one physiognomic vegetation class. The remaining polygons contain two physiognomic vegetation classes, of these:
(1) 59 were 90% dominated by the primary physiognomic class;
(2) 34 were 80% dominated by the primary class type;
(3) 16 were 70% dominated by the primary class type;
(4) 15 polygons were 60% dominated by the primary class type; and
(5) 24 polygons had a 50/50 split between the two physiognomic vegetation class types present.

Maps are produced in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates (NAD 83) with a 1:24,000 scale and a minimum mapping unit of 0.5 hectares (ha) (1.24 acres (ac)).

This vegetation feature class was updated in 2017 to reflect the final Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve boundary approved by the U.S. Congress on December 19, 2014, which deviated slightly from the original proposed expansion boundary and project area used in the original vegetation mapping effort.

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
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Scenic Overlooks

A scenic overlook (also called a viewpoint, vista point, or lookout) in a national park is a designated area—usually along a road, trail, or at a high elevation—where visitors can stop to admire and photograph a particularly beautiful or dramatic landscape.

Tags: facilities, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, parking, points-of-interest, roads, transportation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Southeast Coast Network Shoreline Change Monitoring GeoPackages 2018-2023 Shoreline Change Data

The Southeast Coast Network is following the Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network Ocean Shoreline Position protocol (Psuty et al. 2010) to monitor shoreline change. The Southeast Coast Network monitoring objectives are to determine the spatial distribution of the magnitude and direction of observed shoreline change, determine cumulative and inter-annual changes in neap-tide high-tide shoreline position (average and standard deviation of change in position park-wide and within defined management units), and identify areas of highly dynamic shorelines and areas of accretion versus erosion. Some modifications have been made to the NCBN Ocean Shoreline Position protocol to accommodate park and network specific needs. 
The shoreline monitoring protocol is implemented at the following parks: Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Cape Lookout National Seashore, Cumberland Island National Seashore, Canaveral National Seashore, Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, and Fort Matanzas National Monument. To collect shoreline surveys, a Global Positioning Systems (GPS) or Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is used to document the neap-tide high-tide shoreline position. The survey 
window for SECN data collection will be six to eight weeks during the spring. Fall shoreline surveys will be collected opportunistically as conditions permit. The modifications further detailed in the protocol implementation plan will allow SECN to maintain a long-term workload and meet our parks needs of documenting quantifiable shoreline change.

Tags: climate-change, erosion, net-shoreline-movement, nsm, secn, shoreline, shoreline-change, southeast-coast-network
Organization: Department of the Interior
White Sands 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, intermountain-region, land-status, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states, white-sands-national-monument, whsa
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data from Klamath Network Mountain Lakes and Ponds Pilot Study

We sampled 77 lakes in summer 2010 encompassing a range of disturbance (Low, Moderate, High). Disturbance was estimated based on landscape measures (e.g., trail density, proximity to roads) on both National Park and National Forest land. These lakes were sampled for physical habitat, water chemistry, physio-chemical profiles, zooplankton, littoral macroinvertebrates, and vertebrate assemblages using a peer-reviewed protocol for mountain lakes and ponds developed by the Klamath Inventory and Monitoring Program.

Tags: iei, inventory, lakes, ponds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of George Washington Carver 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.

The mapping component was produced by identifying land cover in a three-step process: (1) image objects were generated at 1 m resolution using e-Cognition applied to stacked leaf-on and leaf-off air photos, (2) image objects were coded with land cover classes on-screen, and (3) image objects were cut and corrected via heads-up digitizing at a display scale of not more than 1:1,000 against a back-drop of air photos. Imagery was the most recent available from the National Agriculture Imagery Program. This included 2009 leaf-on true color and 4-band Color infrared (CIR) 1 m resolution photos, and 2007-2009 leaf-off true color 2 foot resolution photos. All images were stacked before image objects were generated.

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
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial 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, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, pacific-west, parcels, planning-cadastre, port-chicago-naval-magazine-national-memorial, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Southeast Alaska Network water quality raw sonde data for monitoring year 2023 (FQ_E)

Water quality sensor data are logged by YSI EXO3 multiparameter sondes starting in the 2021 monitoring season. YSI’s KorEXO software is used to read and graph raw (BIN format) data files. A season cumulative raw data file is uploaded from the sonde during each monthly maintenance visit. The FQ_E deliverable includes all BIN files from all monthly visits from all monitoring sites in the sampling year, zipped into a single archive file. No corrections or quality control are applied at this stage. Sondes log data cumulatively during the season and are not erased, thus typically only the final file for each site is of interest; all other BIN files are retained in event of data or sensor loss. The details of FQ_E are in SEAN protocol package FQ-2022.1, SOP 5.

Tags: application-inventory-registry, conductivity, dissolved-oxygen, ecological-framework-water-water-quality-water-chemistry, monitoring, ph, temperature, turbidity, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Small Mammal Inventory and Bat Reconnaissance at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site/Vancouver National Historic Reserve tabular data

From June 23-28 and on August 6, 2002, Mount Rainier Wildlife Program staff conducted a small mammal inventory, a rapid assessment of bat species, and documented the presence of other mammals in the area at Fort Vancouver National Historical Site (FOVA) and parts of the Vancouver National Historic Reserve (Reserve). Our small mammal inventory focused on live trapping in seven habitat types for 600 trap-nights. We captured 74 unique individuals of five different species (+ two unknown) and documented two additional species incidentally. The most frequently-trapped species was the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). We collected eight voucher specimens to include at least one of each of the five species trapped. We were unable to capture bats in one night of mist-netting in the Reserve but did identify big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) calls using an electronic bat detector and visually documented likely two different Myotis species.

Tags: agricultural, anabat-ii, bat, big-brown-bat, columbia-river, creeping-vole, deer-mouse, eastern-cottontail, eastern-gray-squirrel, eastern-grey-squirrel, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-mammals, eptesicus-fuscus, fort-vancouver-national-historic-site, gray-squirrel, habitat, house-mouse, hudsons-bay-company, inventory, mammal, microtus-oregoni, microtus-townsendii, mist-net, mus-musculus, myotis, north-american-deermouse, old-field, peromyscus-maniculatus, sciurus-carolinensis, sherman-trap, sorex-vagrans, sylvilagus-floridanus, townsend-vole, townsends-vole, transect, vagrant-shrew, vancouver-national-historic-reserve, wandering-shrew, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Arkansas Post National Memorial

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 was produced by identifying land cover on air photos and hand digitizing on-screen. Heads-up digitizing was accomplished at a display scale of not more than 1:1,000 against a back-drop of air photos. Imagery was the most recent available from the National Agriculture Imagery Program. This included 2010 leaf-on true color and 2006 leaf-off color infrared images.

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 De Soto National Memorial

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

Imagery used to delineate vegetation polygons included aerial photography as well as LIDAR data. The aerial image was collected in January 2007 by EarthData International for the Manatee County Government. This is true color imagery with a 0.31 m pixel size and a verified horizontal accuracy of 2.3 m at the 95% confidence interval. The LIDAR data was collected in 2003 as part of the Windstorm Simulation Modeling Project under a contract between the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University and Manatee County. LIDAR data consisted of digital elevation models (DEMs) for both bare earth and first return with a 1.5 m spatial 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
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Assateague Island National Seashore

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 was flown and processed by Photo Science Inc., of Gaithersburg, Maryland. In April 1993, stereo color-infrared aerial photos were collected in five flight lines, producing 215 9x9” diapositives. An additional inland series of 32 photos was also flown on the western shore of Sinepuxent Bay across from the park, but these were not used in this project. The original diapositive film is archived at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.

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
Petroglyph 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, intermountain-region, lrdcab, national-park-service, new-mexico, ownership, parcels, petroglyph-national-monument, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Petrified Forest 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: arizona, boundaries, boundary, intermountain-region, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, petrified-forest-national-park, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lake Mead National Recreation Area 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: az, boundaries, boundary, lake, lrdcab, national-park-service, nv, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, pwro, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Harry S Truman National Historic 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, harry-s-truman-national-historic-site, lrdcab, missouri, mwro, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Northeast Temperate Network Forest Health Database Backend

The Northeast Temperate Network Forest Health Office Database Backend is a SQL Server .bak file that is restored to a local SQL Server Instance for the purpose of merging and editing forest health monitoring data at Northeast Temperate Network (NETN) parks.

Tags: acad, acadia-national-park, browsing, forest-disturbance, forest-dynamics, forest-ecology, forest-ecosystems, forest-floor, forests, invasive-species, mabi, marsh-billings-rockefeller-national-historical-park, mima, minute-man-national-historical-park, monitoring, morr, morristown-national-historical-park, regeneration, roosevelt-vanderbilt-national-historical-sites, rova, saga, saint-gaudens-national-historical-park, sara, saratoga-national-historical-park, soil, species-diversity, species-richness, sql, sql-server, tree-growth, tree-mortality, tree-seedlings, vegetation, vital-signs, wefa, weir-farm-national-historical-park, xdataproducts, xforesthealth, xnetn
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pu`ukohola Heiau National Historic 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, hawaii, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, pacific-west, parcels, planning-cadastre, puhe, puukohola-heiau-national-historic-site, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior