AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Bottom sample analysis and locations in the vicinity of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (ESRI POINT SHAPEFILE, SAMPLES)

The USGS Woods Hole Science Center conducted a nearshore geophysical survey offshore of the southern coast of Martha's Vineyard, in the vicinity of the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) in August 2007.  This mapping program was part of a larger research effort supporting the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Ripples Directed-Research Initiative (DRI) studies at MVCO by providing data collection and modeling.  The geophysical data will be used to provide initial conditions for wave and circulation models for the study area.  Ultimately, geophysical mapping, oceanographic measurements and modeling will help to improve our understanding of coastal sediment-transport processes.
The geophysical mapping utilized a suite of high-resolution instrumentation to map the surficial sediment distribution, depth and sub-surface geology: dual-frequency 100/500 KHz sidescan-sonar system, 234-KHz interferometric sonar, and 500 Hz -12 KHz chirp sub-bottom profiler. The survey was conducted aboard the M/V Megan Miller August 9-13, 2007. The study area covers 35 square kilometers from about 0.2 km to 5-km offshore of the south shore of Martha's Vineyard, and ranges in depth from ~ 5 to 20 meters.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, beach-samples, cape-cod, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elizabeth-islands, esri-point-shapefile, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, grain-size-analysis, marine-geology, marthas-vineyard, marthas-vineyard-coastal-observatory, mvco, navigational-data, north-america, northeast-united-states, oceans, r-v-connecticut, sea-floor-characteristics, sediment-samples, southeastern-massachusetts, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-b31e77ac-501d-4e4f-8ca4-9f772fc36d52, usgs-field-activity-07028, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Midway Atoll Hatch Year 2012 Black-footed Albatross Survey Areas

Approximately one-third of the global population of black-footed albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes) nest at Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. As part of an effort to monitor albatross at this globally important site, USFWS personnel and volunteers conduct an annual, spatially-explicit, atoll-wide albatross census during the peak nesting when albatrosses are attending an egg (December-January). During the 2011-2012 breeding season (hatch year 2012) the census was conducted December 16, 2011–January 8, 2012. Albatross nest counts during the census were divided into 61 historically established, spatially-explicit sectors of unequal area. Within a sector, surveyors walked parallel transects approximately 3 m apart counting every nest. After a sector was censused, we collected black-footed albatross nest location data using hand-held global positioning system (GPS) units (Trimble GeoXM and GeoXT unit; ± &lt; 3 m accuracy). During the atoll-wide census, every nest was counted; however, time constraints prevented collection of GPS location data of every nest. We collected GPS locations for black-footed albatross nests in nearly 70% (419.7 ha) of the atoll area, prioritizing coastal high-density nesting areas. In interior areas without GPS location data, we assumed a uniform distribution of nests across the suitable habitat within each census sector.  This dataset contains the boundaries of areas in which individual nests were mapped using GPS location, and those in which a uniform distribution of the nests tallied during the atoll-wide census was assumed.

Tags: animal-and-plant-census, birds, black-footed-albatross, census-areas, coastal-processes, habitats, midway-atoll, northwestern-hawaiian-islands, tsunamis, usgs-5b078cb9e4b0ac450c98bd20
Organization: Department of the Interior
Peak-streamflow trends and change-points and basin characteristics for 2,683 U.S. Geological Survey streamgages in the conterminous U.S.

This data release contains drainage basin characteristics and peak-streamflow trend and change-point results for 2,683 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamgages in the conterminous U.S. Data include streamgage identification number, name, drainage area, latitude, longitude, percent urban land use, dam storage, streamgage classification, record completeness status, lag-1 autocorrelation, trend slopes and significance, peaks-over-threshold counts, trends in the numbers of peaks-over-threshold, and change point years and values for median and scale. Also included is an R script containing the Mann-Kendall trend test for three different null hypotheses of the serial structure of the time-series data: independence, short-term persistence, and long-term persistence. Revised - April 8, 2019 (ver. 3.0).

Tags: land-use-and-land-cover, streamflow, time-series-analysis, usgs-5b183960e4b092d965219d62
Organization: Department of the Interior
Orthoimage derived from historical aerial imagery of the South Cow Mountain Recreational Area, Lake County, California, May 27, 1977

The USGS, in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), created a series of geospatial products using historic aerial imagery and Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry methods.  A high-resolution orthomosaic of the South Cow Mountain Recreational Area was generated from stereo historical aerial imagery acquired in by the BLM in May of 1977. The aerial imagery were downloaded from the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center's USGS Single Aerial Frame Photo archive and an orthomosaic was created using USGS guidelines. 
Photo alignment, error reduction, and dense point cloud generation followed guidelines documented in Over, J.R., Ritchie, A.C., Kranenburg, C.J., Brown, J.A., Buscombe, D., Noble, T., Sherwood, C.R., Warrick, J.A., and Wernette, P.A., 2021, Processing coastal imagery with Agisoft Metashape Professional Edition, version 1.6— Structure from motion workflow documentation: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2021–1039, 46 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20211039. 
Photo-identifiable points, selected as synthetic ground-control points, followed guidelines documented in Sherwood, C.R.; Warrick, J.A.; Hill, A.D.; Ritchie, A.C.; Andrews, B.D., and Plant, N.G., 2018. Rapid, remote assessment of Hurricane Matthew impacts using four-dimensional structure-from-motion photogrammetry https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-18-00016.1
Additional post-processing of the 1977 dense point cloud, using Iterative Closest Point (ICP) analysis, was used to improve the alignment with the 2015 LiDAR point cloud. The ICP analysis is explained in Low, K.L., 2004. Linear least-squares optimization for point-to-plane ICP surface registration. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 4(10), pp.1-3. http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~lowkl/publications/lowk_point-to-plane_icp_techrep.pdf 
Data were processed using photogrammetry to generate a three-dimensional point cloud that identifies pixels of an object from multiple images taken from various angles and calculates the x, y, and z coordinates of that object/pixel. The point cloud was processed to create a digital surface model of the study area (57.3 cm resolution). Finally, source images were stitched together based on shared pixels and orthogonally adjusted to the digital surface model to create a high resolution (approximately  18.3 cm) orthoimage for the study area.

Tags: aerial-photography, digital-elevation-models, economy, geoscientificinformation, orthoimage, remote-sensing, structure-from-motion, usgs-633241fcd34e900e86c5bd09
Organization: Department of the Interior
Riparian Vegetation and Environmental Variables, Colorado River, 2014—Data

These data consist of species relative cover, percent cover of dead plant material, percent cover of soil and rock, and a variety of broad - and local- scale environmental variables. These data relate to sample sites along the Colorado River through Grand Canyon between Lees Ferry and river mile 245. The plant and ground cover data included here were originally collected as a part of annual vegetation monitoring by Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. Environmental variables were either recorded in the field or obtained through other data sources. Species and ground cover data were collected in August and September 2014 at 96 randomly selected sample sites that were approximately evenly distributed along the river corridor. The sample sites were distributed among three geomorphic features: channel margins (44), debris fans (28), and sandbars (24).

Tags: american-southwest, arizona, colorado-river, environmental-variables, grand-canyon, landscape-ecology, riparian-vegetation, southwestern-united-states, united-states, usgs-596503a0e4b0d1f9f05b3262, vegetation-composition
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fodar Orthomosaic and Digital Elevation Model of the Totatlanika River Corridor (Alaska) Acquired August 2021

This dataset provides one orthorectified aerial photo mosaic and one digital elevation model derived from airborne fodar data acquired in 2021 on August 31 over the Totatlanika River in central Alaska. The term "fodar" is a portmanteau of foto and lidar, coined by Matt Nolan, which describes a method of quantifying the color and elevation of Earth's surface via airborne small-format digital camera photography.

Tags: alaska, alaska-range, buzzard-creek, california-creek, digital-elevation-terrain-model-dem, earth-science, elevation, faults, geomorphic-landforms-processes, geomorphology, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-surface, land-surface-characteristics, mountains, orogenic-movement, tectonic-landforms, tectonic-processes, tectonic-uplift, terrain-elevation, topography, totatlanika-river, usgs-asc415
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Site 0241 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-5b631a16e4b006a11f717766, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetlands
Organization: Department of the Interior
Overburden above the Ferris 23, 25, 31, 50 and 65 coal zones, Hanna Basin, Wyoming (fer*ovbg)

These ArcView shapefiles contain representations of the
thickness of overburden above the Ferris coal zones in
the Ferris coalfield, Hanna Basin, Wyoming. These datasets
was created specifically for the National Coal Resource
Assessment in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great
Plains Region.

Tags: carbon-county, coal, economy, environment, ferris-23-coal-zone, ferris-23-study-limit, ferris-25-coal-zone, ferris-25-study-limit, ferris-31-coal-zone, ferris-31-study-limit, ferris-50-coal-zone, ferris-50-study-limit, ferris-65-coal-zone, ferris-65-study-limit, ferris-coalfield, ferris-formation, geoscientificinformation, hanna-basin, hannabasincoal, minimum-overburden, national-coal-resource-assessment, nca2000, northern-rocky-mountain-and-great-plains-fort-union-coal-resources-assessment, northern-rocky-mountains-and-great-plains-region, nrockiescoal, overburden, overburden-isopach-map, overburden-thickness, usgs-60c91242d34e86b9389de838, wyoming
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 333030  Moua Pihaa

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 
12-hour intervals, 
from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009.  
The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above 
sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; 
and 24-30km.txt. 
The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind 
direction and speed over 
this time period.  The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 
plots (4 seasons, 5 
elevation ranges).  A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round 
wind pattern at the volcano, 
at 0-5 km elevation.  Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Tags: meteorology, usgs-58d0164de4b0236b68f53081, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Sabine River Flood Map Files

Heavy rainfall occurred across Louisiana during March 8-19, 2016, as a result of a massive, slow-moving southward dip in the jet stream, which moved eastward across Mexico, then neared the Gulf Coast, funneling deep tropical moisture into parts of the Gulf States and the Mississippi River Valley. The storm caused major flooding in north-central and southeastern Louisiana. Digital flood-inundation maps for a 16-mile reach within the community of Merryville near the Sabine River in Beauregard and Vernon Parishes, LA and along the Texas border was created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support response and recovery operations following a March 8-19, 2016 flood event. The inundation maps depict estimates of the areal extent and depth of flooding corresponding to 7 high-water marks (HWM) identified and surveyed by the USGS following the flood event.

Tags: boundaries, boundary-extent-study-area-high-water-marks-flooded-area-flood-geospatial-analysis-river-stream, elevation, inlandwaters, usgs-583c1652e4b0d9329c80c206
Organization: Department of the Interior
Mapping Data of Polar Bear Maternal Den Habitat, National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPR-A)

These are geospatial data that characterize the distribution of polar bear denning habitat on the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPR-A). Two datasets are included in this data package, they are both vector geospatial datasets of putative denning habitat (one set each for the western and eastern portion of the NPR-A). Each vector dataset is provided in both ESRI shapefile and Keyhole Markup Language (KML) formats. Denning habitat was estimated from computer interrogation of digital terrain models (DTM) derived from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IfSAR) imagery collected by sensors mounted on fix-wing aircraft. Den habitat is defined as abrupt landscape features (e.g., coastal and riverbanks, lake shores) that are likely to accumulate snow to a depth sufficient for polar bears to build a maternal den (i.e., &gt; 1 meter deep).

Tags: aerial-photography, alaska, animals-vertebrates, bears, beaufort-sea, biota, carnivores, chukchi-sea, denning-behavior, denning-habitat, environment, habitat-selection, ifsar, interferometric-synthetic-aperture-radar, land-surface, mammals, marine-mammals, national-petroleum-reservealaska, north-slope, photo-derived, polar-bear, remote-sensing, reproductive-behavior, species-life-history, terrestrial-ecosystems, topography, tundra-ecosystems, ursus-maritimus, usgs-asc412, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Metabolic Rates Measured in Three Captive Adult Female Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) While Resting, Swimming, and Diving

This dataset contains measurements of oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production of 3 adult female walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) while resting, swimming, and diving at the Oceanografic Aquarium in Valencia, Spain. Oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production was measured for walruses breathing under a respiratory dome while resting at the water surface, under a respiratory dome after swimming and diving, and via breath by breath respirometry using a pneumotachometer when hauled out.

Tags: animals-vertebrates, biota, carnivores, coastal-ecosystems, energetics, environment, loceanografic-aquarium, mammals, marine-ecosystems, marine-mammals, odobenus-rosmarus-divergens, pacific-walrus, seals-sea-lions-walruses, spain, species-life-history, threatened-species, usgs-asc411, walrus, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Polar Bear Maternal Den Habitat on the Coastal Plain of Northern Alaska Between the Colville River and the Alaska/Canada border

These are geospatial data that characterize the distribution of polar bear denning habitat on the coastal plain of northern Alaska between the Colville River and the Alaska/Canada border. One dataset is included in this data package, it is vector geospatial data of putative denning habitat. The vector data are provided in both ESRI shapefile and Keyhole Markup Language (KML) formats. Den habitat is defined as abrupt landscape features (e.g., coastal and riverbanks, lake shores) that are likely to accumulate snow to a depth sufficient for polar bears to build a maternal den (i.e., &gt; 1 meter deep).

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, arctic-national-wildlife-refuge, bears, beaufort-sea, biota, carnivores, denning-behavior, denning-habitat, environment, habitat-selection, land-surface, mammals, marine-mammals, north-slope, photo-derived, polar-bear, remote-sensing, reproductive-behavior, species-life-history, terrestrial-ecosystems, topography, tundra-ecosystems, ursus-maritimus, usgs-asc413, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pathogen and Contaminant Exposure Data from Southern Beaufort Sea Polar Bears, 2007-2014

These were data collected from polar bears from the Southern Beaufort Sea during the spring between 2007 and 2014. Data include individual ID, capture date, sex and age class, whether individuals visited bowhead whale carrion sites, exposure status relative to five pathogens, and concentrations of certain persistent organic pollutants.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, bacterial-diseases, bears, beaufort-sea, biota, brucella, carnivores, chlorobenzene, clbz, coastal-ecosystems, coxiella, ddt, dichlorophenyltrichloroethane, disease-detection, ecotoxicology, environment, environmental-contaminants, francisella, hch, health-and-disease, hexachlorocyclohexane, human-impacts, mammals, marine-ecosystems, marine-mammals, neospora, organochlorine, parasites, parasitic-diseases, pcb, polar-bear, polychlorinated-biphenyls, terrestrial-ecosystems, toxoplasma, ursus-maritimus, usgs-asc414, wildlife, wildlife-food-habits
Organization: Department of the Interior
Area of habitat still above water per decade of projected sea level rise for islands in two study areas off Florida's Gulf coast

Sand beaches are dynamic, making it difficult to accurately predict habitat loss from sea level rise (SLR). We mapped sand beach habitat based on two datasets - a remotely sensed land cover and hand-digitized aerial imagery collected concurrently with digital elevation data. Data include the predicted area of beach habitat still above water (units = number of pixels) from SLR per decade, for 3 SLR scenarios, based on two mapping methods, for 12 barrier island beaches and 4 control islands off Florida's Gulf Coast.

Tags: barrier-island, beach, florida, gulf-of-mexico, sea-level-change, usgs-649af1d2d34ef77fcb02cbbc
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for the report Hydrogeologic framework and ground-water levels, 1982 and 1996, middle Humboldt River basin, north-central Nevada (U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4209)

This USGS data release represents data from the following publication:
Plume, R.W., and Ponce, S.A., 1999, Hydrogeologic framework and ground-water levels, 1982 and 1996, middle Humboldt River basin, north-central Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4209, 2 plates, https://doi.org/10.3133/wri984209.

Tags: antelope-valley, boulder-flat, carico-lake-valley, crescent-valley, elko-county, eureka-county, great-basin, groundwater, groundwater-flow, groundwater-level, humboldt-county, humboldt-river-region, inlandwaters, kelly-creek-area, lander-county, lower-reese-river-valley, middle-humboldt-river-basin, middle-reese-river-valley, nevada, nye-county, pershing-county, pine-valley, pumpernickel-valley, rock-creek-valley, study-areas, upper-reese-river-valley, usgs-5ba17e8de4b08583a5c42e78, whirlwind-valley, willow-creek-valley
Organization: Department of the Interior
Interpolation statistics for the Olean sourcewater study area in upstate New York

This dataset includes spreadsheets with statistical data (mean and median absolute error) used in deciding which interpolation method best fit the corresponding dataset.  All statistical data were paired with a visual inspection of the interpolation prior to determining the final raster product. All spreadsheets were generated using an automated Python script (Jahn, 2020).

Tags: allegany-county, aquifer-mapping, bedrock-mapping, cattaraugus-county, chautauqua-county, glacial-geology, new-york, olean, sourcewater, statistics, usgs-60536182d34e7eb1cb3ebf85, valley-fill
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wetland transition probabilities for category count model elicited from experts at 2015 workshop

This dataset is a set of transition probabilities that were elicited from a group of relevant experts during a structured decision-making workshop. Each value is the probability of a wetland in a given state undergoing a transition to another state during a single time step, given a potential management action is taken.

Tags: adaptive-management, biota, decision-support-methods, mathematical-modeling, saint-marks-national-wildlife-refuge, south-atlantic-gulf, usgs-5ddbfab0e4b06957976a56ed
Organization: Department of the Interior
Colorado River at Salt Wash near Moab, UT - 2020/10/06 GPS Survey

The dataset contains GPS survey data collected at Colorado River at Salt Wash near Moab, UT, as part of a surface velocity mapping effort. The survey was conducted on October 6, 2020, and documents ground control points for a small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) survey. The survey was performed using Leica GS14 RTK GPS equipment, S/N base-2806898, S/N rover-2806883.

Tags: colorado-river, gps, moab-ut, salt-wash, suas, usgs-5ff75285d34ea5387df03b5c
Organization: Department of the Interior