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

This Biscayne National Park vegetation map, together with its precise 1:300 scale shoreline, should serve as a turn-of-the-21st century baseline for the extent of vegetation communities within Biscayne National Park. The entire park is only a few meters above mean sea level and this vegetation and shoreline map should be particularly useful for documenting the effects of sea-level rise, tropical storms, and other stressors, on the wetlands and forested communities of Biscayne National Park. The map should also be useful for park planning, assisting management of threatened and endangered species, and evaluating effects of restoration efforts and other activities.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Black Canyon of the Gunnison 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 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. Polygons were drawn on Mylar overlays of printed orthophotos that were later scanned, or were drawn digitally on a computer screen. Heads-up digitizing consisted of delineating map class polygons on an electronic version of the digital orthophotos at a computer workstation. Digitizing was performed using vector editing in ArcGIS.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Bandelier National Monument

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

The map was designed to facilitate ecologically- based natural resources management at a 1:24,000 scale with 0.5-ha minimum map unit size. Based on a provisional assessment, overall accuracy was 82.5% for Level 1 and 66.8% for Level 2. Level 1 units will likely be sufficient and most appropriate for many natural resource planning and evaluations, while Level 2 units provide added fine-scale information within major ecological groups. To support the map as a management tool, we provide an annotated map legend along with descriptions of each plant association, a corresponding diagnostic key, field forms, and a plant species list. The map was delivered in both printed form and as digital Geographic Information System (GIS) map files. The GIS format allows flexibility to update the map as new information becomes available, or as major vegetation changes, such as fire, disease or other impacts, occur in the park.

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
Piscataway 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, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, maryland, national-capital-region, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, pisc, piscataway-park, planning-cadastre, tracts, united-states
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Crater Lake 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.

Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office (2012) provided digital video disks of the imagery to the Southern Oregon University research team. The imagery was projected to Oregon State Plane South Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 3602 North American Datum (NAD) 1983. We extracted the Crater Lake imagery from the NAIP aerial orthophotography acquired for the entire state of Oregon. The NAIP imagery was collected in 2011 with a Leica ADS40-SH51 digital camera that recorded 4-band multi-spectral (red, green, blue, and infrared wavelength) images at a spatial resolution of 1 m (3.3 feet). Watershed Sciences, Inc. collected Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) data of Crater Lake National Park in 2010 for the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) which then delivered it to the park.

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
Buck Island Reef 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, buck-island-reef-national-monument, buis, land-status-ownership, lrdcab, national-park-service, ownership, parcels, planning-cadastre, southeast-region, tracts, united-states, virgin-islands
Organization: Department of the Interior
BOHA_2022 UMass BioBlitz 11_4_22

This feature layer contains points representing bioblitz observations in Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park, Massachusetts, 2022. The data was connected during a UMASS BioBlitz in November 2022. The data is current as of November 2022 and is maintained by BOHA Science and Stewardship Partnerships.

Tags: bioblitz, biodiversity, boha, boston-harbor-islands-national-and-state-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
BOHA 2021 Bivalve Quest Data (S.M. Version)

This feature layer contains points representing bivalve quest observations in Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park, Massachusetts, 2021. The data is current as of 2021 and is maintained by BOHA Science and Stewardship Partnerships.

Tags: bivalve-quest, boha, boston-harbor-islands-national-and-state-park, monitoring
Organization: Department of the Interior
BOHA 2022 Bivalve Quest Data (S.M. Version)

This feature layer contains points representing bivalve quest observations in Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park, Massachusetts, 2022. The data is current as of 2022 and is maintained by BOHA Science and Stewardship Partnerships.

Tags: bivalve-quest, boha, boston-harbor-islands-national-and-state-park, monitoring
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: KOWA

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

Tags: 303d, boundaries, boundary, canal, clean-water-act, cwa, designated-uses, ditch, geoscientificinformation, his, hydrographic-and-impairment-statistics, hydrographic-statistics, hydrography, impaired-waters, impairment, impairment-statistics, inland-waters, inlandwaters, korean-war-veterans-memorial, kowa, 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
Fire Island National Seashore Cruise Tracklines, 2015

This dataset shows the cruise tracklines for the acoustic survey completed to the east of the new breachway created by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The data was collected June 11th-16th, 2015.

Tags: benthic-habitat, benthic-habitat-mapping, cruise-track-lines, fiis, fire-island, fire-island-national-seashore, hurricane-sandy, hxsandy, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, submerged-habitat, submerged-habitat-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics Database: NACC

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

Tags: 303d, boundaries, boundary, canal, clean-water-act, cwa, designated-uses, ditch, geoscientificinformation, his, hydrographic-and-impairment-statistics, hydrographic-statistics, hydrography, impaired-waters, impairment, impairment-statistics, inland-waters, inlandwaters, lake, marsh, nacc, national-capital-parks-central, 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
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Bryce Canyon 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 mapping component of the BRCA project used a combination of methods to interpret and delineate vegetation and land use polygons. The USGS applied an electronic segmentation method (e-Cognition software) to create preliminary linework on features with high-contrast photo-signatures. Using the preliminary linework as a baseline starting point, the primary photointerpreter drew polygons directly on screen through heads-up digitizing using ArcGIS editing tools. Additionally, trained photointerpreters assisting the primary photointerpreter drew polygons on Mylar overlays covering 1m resolution, 1:12,000-scale, 9 x 9-inch true-color aerial photographs. This process enabled the photointerpreters to view the landscape in stereo in order to identify finer details. The linework drawn on Mylar overlays was then transferred into digital media by heads-up digitizing using ArcGIS software. The park and environs were interpreted and mapped to the same level of detail.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Booker T. Washington National Monument

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

A vegetation map of Booker T. Washington National Monument was created following the USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program protocols. These vegetation associations were crosswalked to the Natural Communities of Virginia and to the USNVC in order to provide a regional and global context for the park’s vegetation. A field key to the map classes and detailed descriptions for each map class were developed to assist with field recognition and classification. Additional products associated with this project include: leaf-on and leaf-off orthophoto mosaics, database of vegetation plot data, digital photos of vegetation associations, and spatial data files for the vegetation map and plot sample points with associated Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)-compliant metadata.

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
Frank Miller Vegetation and Disturbance History Map 1938 Raster Image

The Frank Miller vegetation and disturbance history map, which was drawn in 1938, was scanned using a Vidar color scanner at 600 DPI. The map was originally separated into two segments. A digital image of each segment was brought into ArcMap. Each piece was Georeferenced based on the coordinates given on the map and was then Clipped based on the same coordinates to remove any white space. The Mosaic tool was then used to join the map pieces into one large image. The image was then projected using UTM17N as the basis for the projection.

Tags: biota, environment, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm-01687, late-1930s, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Buffalo National River

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

A geodatabase containing various feature-class layers and tables show the locations of vegetation types and general land cover (vegetation map), vegetation plot samples, AA sites, project boundary extent, and aerial photographic centers. The feature class layer for the BUFF vegetation map provides 11,279 polygons of detailed attribute data covering 37,828.4 ha, with an average polygon size of 3.4 ha.

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
Glacier Bay, Alaska murrelet survey raw observations (KM_C) for survey year 2013

During GLBA field surveys, observation data are directly recorded into an ArcGIS file geodatabase through a custom application that runs on laptops and later iPads. Data collected include murrelet bird group observations, their relation to line transects, covariates, tracklogs, and GPS points made on survey transects.

These are stored in their original raw form after the field survey and are never edited.  Once quality control processes are completed a separate corrected version is produced as deliverable KM_D.

Tags: brachyramphus, brachyramphus-brevirostris, brachyramphus-marmoratus, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds, glacier-bay, kittlitzs-murrelet, marbled-murrelet, marbled-murrelets, murrelet
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Canyon De Chelly National Monument

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

The project team also developed a spatial vegetation map database representing CACH, with three different map-class schemas: base, group, and management map classes. The base map classes represented the finest level of spatial detail. Photointerpreters delineated initial polygons through manual interpretation of 2003/2004 1:12,000-scale true color aerial photography supplemented by occasional computer screen digitizing on a mosaic of digitized aerial photos. These polygons were labeled with base map classes during photointerpretation. Field visits verified interpretation concepts. The vegetation map database includes, 53 base map classes, which consist of associations and park specials classified with the quantitative analysis, additional associations noted during photointerpretation, non-vegetated land cover, such as infrastructure, land use, and geological land cover. The base map classes consist of 4,718 polygons in the project area. A field-based accuracy assessment of the base map classes showed the overall accuracy to be 50.8% The group map classes represent aggregations of the base map classes, approximating the group level of the National Vegetation Classification Standard, Version 2 (Federal Geographic Data Committee 2008). Terrestrial ecological systems, as described by NatureServe (Comer et al. 2003), were used as a first approximation of the group level. The project team identified 16 group map classes in this project. The overall accuracy of the group map classes was determined using the same accuracy assessment data as for the base map classes. The overall accuracy of the group representation of vegetation was 79.9%.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Buck Island Reef National Monument

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

Polygons were digitized in ESRI ArcMap for the entirety of Buck Island based on an initial photo-interpretation of the digital orthoimage within a range of 1:200 through 1:7000 scales. The variation in scale proved helpful in defining larger polygons at larger scales and vice versa. Vegetation polygons in general were digitized with a minimum mapping unit of 400m2. However nine polygons were digitized smaller than the minimum mapping unit. All nine of these polygons had a high degree of certainty in their mapping class and location (e.g., buildings).

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Capitol Reef 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.

Polygons representing vegetation or land use map classes were delineated on-screen in an ArcView environment. The project used the program standard minimum mapping unit of 0.5 ha with few exceptions. The 18,633 map polygons representing 70 natural and semi-natural vegetation map classes cover 134,377 ha (332,053 acres, 91.6% of the project area). Map classes representing 1,720 polygons of unvegetated bedrock, talus, wash channels or sand sheets total 11,515 ha (28,454 acres; 7.8% of the project area). Nine map classes describing 634 polygons of land use categories, including roads, ranch developments and NPS facilities, total 862 ha (2,130 acres; 0.6% of the project area). Average polygon size across all map classes is 7.0 ha (17.3 acres). The most frequent vegetation map class is the Pinyon-Juniper / Mesic Shrubs Woodland Complex (Map Class 16 / W-PJME) with 5,122 polygons covering 42,197 ha (104,271) acres or 28.7% of the project area.

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