AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Hurricane Sandy: 2013 NWI Data of Selected USFWS Coastal Barrier Resource Act (CBRA) Units along Long Island, New York

Hurricane Sandy directly hit the Atlantic shoreline of New Jersey during several astronomical high tide cycles in late October, 2012.   The eastern seaboard areas are subject to sea level rise and increased severity and frequency of storm events, prompting habitat and land use planning changes.   Wetland Aquatic Research Center (WARC) has conducted detailed mapping of marine and estuarine wetlands and deepwater habitats, including beaches and  tide flats,  and upland land use/land cover,  using  specially-acquired  aerial imagery  flown at 1-meter resolution.These efforts will assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) continuing endeavors to map  the barrier islands adhering to Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA) guidelines. Mapped areas consist of selected federal lands including, National Park Service areas, USFWS National Wildlife  Refuges, and selected CBRA Units, including barrier islands and marshes in New York and New Jersey. These vital wetland areas are important for migratory waterfowl and neotropical  bird habitats, wildlife  food chain support and nurseries for shellfish and finfish populations.  Coastal wetlands also play an important function as storm surge buffers.  This project includes mapping  of dominant estuarine wetland plant species useful for wetland functional analysis and wildlife evaluation and management concerns. It also aims to integrate with and  offer updated databases pertinent to:  USFWS NWR and NWI programs, NOAA tide flats and beaches data, FEMA flood zone data, Natural Heritage Endangered and Threated Species, watershed  management, and state and local land use planning.

Tags: boundaries, environment, planningcadastre, u-s-f-w-s-coastal-barrier-resources-act, u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service-northeast-region, u-s-national-park-service, usgs-5798cf92e4b0589fa1c72908
Organization: Department of the Interior
GIS shapefile: Collier County, Florida irrigated agricultural land-use GIS shapefile for the 2017 growing season

This data set consists of a detailed digital map of individual irrigated fields and a summary of the irrigated acreage for the 2017 growing season developed for Collier County, Florida. Selected attribute data that include crop type, irrigation system, and primary water source were collected for each irrigated field.

Tags: boundaries, collier-county, crop-type, environment, farming, florida, florida-department-of-agriculture-and-consumer-service, groundwater, irrigation-type, landuse, landuse-classification-codes, orthoimagery, south-florida-water-management-district, surface-water, usgs-59a05f16e4b038630d0304c7
Organization: Department of the Interior
Molecular resources combined with morphology and geography to provide insights into the evolutionary history of a wide-ranging freshwater mussel species complex (Unionida: Quadrula)

The freshwater mussel Quadrula quadrula of eastern North America occupies several isolated river drainages along the coastal Gulf of Mexico and northward in the Mississippi Basin and Great Lakes. Previous work has documented high morphological and genetic variation across its range but due to paraphyly of mitochondrial barcodes, variants are currently recognized as conspecific. Here we present sequence data from three genomes including male- and female-inherited mitochondrial markers and thousands of nuclear encoded SNPs that were used to disentangle the evolutionary history of this species complex. We also provide morphological and geographic data, which was analyzed with the molecular data in a comparative context to illuminate the group’s divergence history.

Tags: alabama-river, arkansas-river, big-canoe-creek, biota, black-warrior-river, bogue-chitto-river, brazos-river, colorado-river, freshwater-mussels, genetics, hybridization, iowa-river, kiamichi-river, mississippi-river, navidad-river, nueces-river, ohio-river, osage-river, ouachita-river, pascagoula-river, red-river, rio-grande, san-saba-river, sipsey-river, st-croix-river, subspecies, systematics, taxonomy, trinity-river, usgs-663b87aed34e77890839be63
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2018 Site 0490 land-water classification data

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 398 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. A DOQQ is a raster image in which displacement in the image caused by sensor orientation and terrain relief has been removed and combines the image characteristics of a photo with geometric qualities of a map. The DOQQs generated for this project consist of 2018 Color Infrared (CIR) Digital Imagery. These images were classified into land and water categories using a threshold of the near infrared (NIR) band, followed by supervised and unsupervised classification.  Initial classification results are then reviewed by multiple image analysts to identify and manually recode errors. The final land-water classifications are intended to serve as both geographic and quantitative assessments of landscape composition on the date of acquisition. Four previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015/2016). Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal-louisiana, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-611d2bcad34e40dd9c0129b4, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Orthoimagery of Looe Key, Florida, 2022

A seabed orthoimage was developed from underwater images collected at Looe Key (LKR), Florida, in July 2022 using the SfM (Structure-from-Motion) Quantitative Underwater Imaging Device with 5 cameras (SQUID-5) system. The underwater images were processed using SfM photogrammetry techniques. The orthoimage covers a rectangular area of seafloor approximately 850x160 meters (m) (0.13 square kilometers [km]) in size. It was created using image-averaging methods and saved as Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) rasters at 5-millimeter (mm) resolution, in a 5-by-2 tile index grid. A 25-centimeter (cm) resolution "quicklook" version of this orthoimage is also included in this data release so that users can quickly view the entire dataset at a lower resolution before downloading the higher resolution raster tiles.

Tags: cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, coral-reefs, elevation, geospatial-datasets, looe-key, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, physical-habitats-and-geomorphology, reef-ecosystems, remote-sensing, seabed, spcmsc, st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center, state-of-florida, structure-from-motion, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-f13eaf9d-3e4f-41f7-bb7d-17034d612907, visible-light-imaging
Organization: Department of the Interior
Laser Rangefinder Data for Surficial Mass Movements in the Cascades: USGS Debris Flow Flume 2023

A laser rangefinder was used to record debris flows at Cascades volcanoes and an experimental debris flow flume. Mass movements such as large lahars and smaller seasonal debris flows can occur at volcanoes in the Cascades. A combination of seismic, infrasound, tripwires, and webcams can be used to detect and characterize these flows. A laser rangefinder can be placed on the banks of the drainages and pointed towards the channel as a low power, low bandwidth piece of equipment to confirm increases in flow past the station. This can serve as another piece of evidence for flows and may be able to be incoporated into future alarm systems to improve their accuracy and performance. 
A laser rangefinder was deployed for 3 short time periods across 3 days (May 16 - 18) at the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) debris flow flume in the H.J. Andrews Experimental forest in Oregon. The instrument was at a slant distance of ~4.4 m and pointed at 61 degrees from horizontal at the center of the 2 m wide flume. The laser rangefinder was a LaserTech TruSense S200 series logged at 3-4 Hz sampling rate directly to a laptop.

Tags: biota, debris-flow, lahar, laser-rangefinder, monitoring, usgs-65ce819bd34ec3e1801bc62e
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Site 5845 land-water matrix

Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Wetland restoration efforts conducted by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in Louisiana rely on monitoring efforts to determine the efficacy of these efforts. The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) was developed to assist in a multiple-reference approach that uses aspects of hydrogeomorphic functional assessments and probabilistic sampling for monitoring. The CRMS program includes a suite of approximately 390 sites that encompass the range of hydrological and ecological conditions for each stratum. As part of CRMS, land and water classifications are created from Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) approximately every three years at all CRMS sites. This dataset consists of a matrix of four land-water products (2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016).  The resulting matrix has 16 possible classes defined by the combination of land and water categories on those four dates.

Tags: alteration-of-wetland-habitats, cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, emergent-wetland, forested-wetland, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, scrub-shrub-wetland, state-of-louisiana, usgs-5b631b72e4b006a11f7178c0, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Probable suitable habitat for Beaver Dam breadroot (Pediomelum castoreum) in the California desert

Here we present the map of probable suitable habitat for Beaver Dam breadroot (Pediomelum castoreum). The data indicate both how many models predicted each location to be suitable for the species, and the average standardized habitat suitability score for each location.Data are presented at a spatial resolution of 10 m pixels, which was required to harmonize the original model inputs. However, maps of suitable habitat should be used at a resolution no smaller than 360 m (i.e., 36 pixels x 36 pixels), which corresponds with the resolution of the coarsest model input. This product can be used to inform future conservation, planning, and management actions in the California desert. Complete methods and other additional information are provided in the article associated with this data release (Reese and others, 2019).

Tags: biota, species-distribution-model, usgs-5c9a3848e4b0b8a7f62a5e19
Organization: Department of the Interior
10-meter bathymetric contours from multibeam bathymetry in the East and West Flower Garden regions, northwestern Gulf of Mexico outer shelf (polyline shapefile)

This shapefile shows the 10 meter contour interval based on the 5-meter multibeam bathymetry (Dartnell and Gardner, 1999) from the Flower Garden Banks region.

Tags: bathymetry, ci, contour, contour-interval, contouring, contours, flower-garden-banks, flower-garden-banks-national-marine-sanctuary, geospatial-datasets, gulf-of-mexico, north-america, sea-floor-characteristics, usgs-33ecbb91-d005-4729-a8d1-77def48d70a8
Organization: Department of the Interior
Digital Orthorectified Aerial Image of Cottonwood Lake Study Area Wetland T4 from 2006

Orthorectified image from aerial photograph of wetland T4 in the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. This image is part of a collection of photographs of the study area acquired during July and early August from 1975 to 2015.

Tags: aerial-photography, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagteddy, chase-lake-wetland-management-districtgtstutsman-county-waterfowl-production-areagtshuler, cottonwood-lake-study-area, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtaquatic-ecosystemsgtwetlands, earth-sciencegtbiospheregtecosystemsgtterrestrial-ecosystemsgtwetlands, environment, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, inlandwaters, north-dakota, northern-great-plains, platformgtaerial-photographs, prairie-pothole-region, stutsman-county, surface-water-non-marine, united-states-of-america, usgs-588fa645e4b072a7ac08c535, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne magnetic and radiometric survey, Ironton, Missouri area

This publication provides digital flight line data for a high-resolution horizontal magnetic gradient and radiometric survey over the Ironton, Missouri area of southeast Missouri.  Data were collected using a fixed wing aircraft with magnetometers mounted in the tail stinger and each wing tip pod and a fully calibrated gamma ray spectrometer. The survey operated out of the Farmington, Missouri airport during January to mid-February of 2016. The survey covers an irregularly shaped region within a 54 x 53 square-kilometer area centered on the town of Ironton, Missouri. Data were collected along north-south flight lines spaced 300 meters (m) apart with east-west tie lines flown every 3000 m. A mean terrain clearance of 140 m was maintained except where safety dictated a higher elevation. A total of 10,253 line kilometers (km) of data were collected. Three files are available in this publication and include flight line data for the magnetic gradient survey, flight line data for the radiometric survey and a report describing the survey parameters, field operations, quality control and data reduction procedures. In addition, there are two data directories that describe the attributes in the flight line data files.

Tags: aeromagnetic-surveying, aeroradiometric-surveying, cedar-hill, cggsc, crustal-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center, geophysics, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, iron-mountain, ironton, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveying, mineral-resources-program, missouri, mrp, pilot-knob, shepard-mountain, usgs-57681584e4b07657d19f586d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Black Brant Banding and Recovery Encounter Histories, Alaska, 1990-2016

This data contains two tables of live-dead encounter histories of Black Brant geese banded 4 breeding locations in the Arctic of northern Alaska and western Canada and one sub-Arctic location, the Tutakoke River colony on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska, from 1990 to 2016.

Tags: alaska, anderson-river-delta, animals-vertebrates, banks-island, biota, birds, brant, canada, colville-river-delta, environment, field-inventory-and-monitoring, kuparuk-river, melville-island, prudhoe-bay, relative-abundance-analysis, survival, usgs-asc116, waterfowl, yukon-kuskokwim-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Species distribution models for native species in the Mojave Desert

Preserving native species diversity is fundamental to ecosystem conservation. Selecting appropriate native species for use in restoration is a critical component of project design and may emphasize species attributes such as life history, functional type, pollinator services, and nutritional value for wildlife. Determining which species are likely to establish and persist in a particular environment is a key consideration. Species distribution models (SDMs) characterize relationships between species occurrences and the physical environment (e.g., climate, soil, topographic relief) and provide a mechanism for assessing which species may successfully propagate at a restoration site. In conjunction with information on species attributes, SDMs facilitate holistic ecosystem restoration by enabling practitioners to identify diverse, resilient assemblages of native species. This project develops SDMs for native species of fundamental ecosystem importance in order to guide restoration of Mojave Desert landscapes.

Tags: arizona, biogeography, biota, california, habitats, maps-and-atlases, mojave, native-plant-materials-development, native-species, nevada, species-distribution-model, usgs-61eb4846d34e8b818ada91b1, utah
Organization: Department of the Interior
Airborne geophysical survey: Scotts Mills, Oregon

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, f41005-clackamas, f41043-linn, f41047-marion, f41053-polk, f41067-washington, f41071-yamhill, field-monitoring-stations, geophysical-surveys, geophysics, geospatial-datasets, magnetic, magnetic-field-earth, magnetic-surveys, or, oregon, residual-magnetic-field, scotts-mills, total-field, united-states, usgs-699ddae7-97d5-4542-be87-eca2ac99fb22
Organization: Department of the Interior
GIS data: Sediment Sample Locations Collected in September 2012 from the Northern Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana (U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity Number 12LGC02)

As part of the Barrier Island Evolution Research (BIER) project, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) collected sediment samples from the northern Chandeleur Islands in March and September 2012. The overall objective of this project, which integrates geophysical (bathymetric, seismic, and topographic) and sedimentologic data, is to better understand the depositional and erosional processes that drive the morphologic evolution of barrier islands over annual to interannual timescales (1 to 5 years). Between June 2010 and April 2011, in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the State of Louisiana constructed a sand berm extending more than 14 kilometers (km) along the northern Chandeleur Islands platform. The construction of the berm provided a unique opportunity to investigate how this new sediment source will interact with and affect the morphologic evolution of the barrier-island system. Data collected from this study will be used to describe differences in the physical characteristics and spatial distribution of sediments both along the axis of the berm and also along transects across the berm and onto the adjacent barrier island. Comparison of these data with data from subsequent sampling efforts will provide information about sediment interactions and movement between the berm and the natural island platform, improving our understanding of short-term morphologic change and processes in this barrier-island system. This data series serves as an archive of sediment data collected in March and September 2012 from the Chandeleur Islands sand berm and adjacent barrier-island environments. Data products, including descriptive core logs, core photographs and x-radiographs, results of sediment grain-size analyses, sample location maps, and Geographic Information System (GIS) data files with accompanying formal Federal Geographic Data Committee (FDGC) metadata, can be downloaded from http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/850/data.html.

Tags: 12lgc02, barrier-island-evolution-research-project, barrier-island-mapping, chandeleur-islands, geology, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, grab-sample, gulf-of-mexico, location, louisiana, oceans, sediment, u-s-geological-survey, unconsolidated-deposits, usgs, usgs-0ea01974-8abb-49af-8fb3-263d34f6d9f4
Organization: Department of the Interior
An Unvegetated to Vegetated Ratio (UVVR) for coastal wetlands of the Pacific Coast - 2008

Prior research has shown that sediment budgets, and therefore stability, of microtidal marsh complexes scale with areal unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratios (UVVR) suggesting these metrics are broadly applicable indicators of microtidal marsh vulnerability. This effort has developed the UVVR metric using readily available satellite imagery for the coastal areas of the contiguous United States (CONUS). These datasets provide annual averages of the 1) unvegetated fraction, 2) vegetated fraction, 3) water fraction and 4) an unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR) at 30-meter resolution over the coastal areas of the contiguous United States for the year 2008. Additionally, multi-year average values of vegetated ratio, its standard deviation and a UVVR based on the annually-averaged vegetated ratio are provided for the coastal wetlands of the contiguous United States.

Tags: california, coastal-wetlands, conterminous-united-states, fractional-cover, oregon, pacific, unvegetated, unvegetated-to-vegetated-ratio, usgs-66e1d0afd34ecba8b8677890, uvvr, vegetation, washington, wetland-change, wetland-gain, wetland-loss, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Satellite Location and Tri-Axial Accelerometer Data from Adult Female Polar Bears (Ursus Maritimus) in the Southern Beaufort Sea, April-October 2014

This data package includes 2 child items with location and activity data from adult female polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea, April-October 2014.
      Child Item 1: "GPS and Argos Location Data from Adult Female Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Southern Beaufort Sea, April-October 2014"
      Child Item 2: "Tri-axial Accelerometer and Conductivity Sensor Data from Adult Female Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Southern Beaufort Sea, April-October 2014"

Tags: accelerometer, alaska, animal-behavior, animals-vertebrates, bears, beaufort-sea, biota, carnivores, energetics, environment, gps, mammalian-physiology, mammals, marine-mammals, physical-activity, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-linked-gps-data-logger, satellite-telemetry, species-life-history, system-argos, tagging-devices, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-5df4298ce4b0cdded7372bbe, vertebrates, wildlife, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Oceanographic CTD Data Device Location for Joint USGS Cruise 03008 and NOAA RB0303

This data set shows the location where a CTD (Conductivity -Temperature - Depth) device was used. CTD were determined while in the Caribbean Sea.  The point location attributes are longitude, latitude, and date of placement in the water; this information was acquired during the U.S. Geological Survey Science Cruise 03008 in collaboration with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research Cruise RB0303 from 18 February to 7 March 2003, Leg II of III. (Leg I and III: 20020924 to 20020930 and 20030828 to 20030904, respectively).

Tags: atlantic-ocean, caribbean-sea, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, conductivity, ctd, geospatial-datasets, location, marine-chemistry, national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration, navigational-data, noaa, noaa-cruise-rb0303, north-america, north-atlantic-ocean, oceans, point-shapefile, puerto-rico, puerto-rico-trench, seabird-sbe-9, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-5fe175bb-1066-401b-bbf6-deaa60a59bc2, usgs-cruise-03008
Organization: Department of the Interior