AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Natural color aerial imagery and structure-from-motion models from Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) 3D Scan flights at the Marsh-Felch Quarry in Garden Park Fossil Area, Colorado, July 2024

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Uncrewed Systems Office (NUSO) supported the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program’s Geoheritage Sites of the Nation Project in July of 2024 with the collection of UAS-based high-resolution imagery of the Marsh-Felch Quarry site at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Garden Park Fossil Area. One of the most complete dinosaur skeletons ever unearthed was found here. These discoveries around present-day Garden Park Fossil Area sparked the “Bone Wars” of the late 1800s and inspired the selection of Colorado's state fossil, the Stegosaurus. Three-dimensional (3D) scan flights were conducted at the fossil site using a Skydio X10 UAS, in which the aircraft autonomously determined where to capture photos to achieve coverage across a volume of interest. The natural color UAS images were processed in photogrammetry software to generate a 3D model of this fossil site for inclusion in the Geoheritage web application. A two-dimensional (2D) mapping flight with the Skydio X10 UAS flown at 300 feet above ground level was also conducted to capture the topography of the surrounding area.
This portion of the data release presents raw natural color images collected during the 3D scan flights over the fossil site. Over the course of three 25-minute flights, a Skydio X10 UAS with an integrated VT300-L Wide angle sensor scanned a 2,863 square meter area and captured 2,753 natural color red, green, blue (RGB) photos to achieve 80% overlap and 70% sidelap. The images in .JPG format are provided here in zip files to facilitate bulk download.
Structure-from-motion 3D models were generated by processing these 3D scan images in photogrammetry software. These 3D models are provided here as binary glTF files (.GLB), an open format for online viewing. A low resolution model is provided for fast rendering in a web browser. A high resolution model is also provided to discern finer details in the site.

Tags: bureau-of-land-management, canon-city, colorado, drone, fremont-county, geoheritage-sites, geosciences-and-environmental-change-science-center, geospatial-datasets, geotourism, late-jurassic, morrison-formation, national-natural-landmark, natural-color, paleontology, photogrammetry, remote-sensing, rgb, skydio-x10, stegosaurus, structure-from-motion, u-s-geological-survey, uas, uncrewed-aircraft-system, united-states, usgs, usgs-674a19dbd34e9698b1b3f06d
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 Site 0553 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 2021 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. Five previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, 2012, 2015/2016, and 2018). 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-6569e557d34e6dde1a4ae0e6, wetland, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Burned Area Reflectance Classification Thematic Burn Severity Mosaic for CONUS in 2021

These data products are preliminary burn severity assessments derived from data obtained from suitable imagery (including Landsat TM, Landsat ETM+, Landsat OLI, Sentinel 2A, and Sentinel 2B). The pre-fire and post-fire subsets included were used to create a differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) image. The dNBR image attempts to portray the variation of burn severity within a fire. The severity ratings are influenced by the effects to the canopy.  The severity rating is based upon a composite of the severity to the understory (grass, shrub layers), midstory trees and overstory trees. Because there is often a strong correlation between canopy consumption and soil effects, this algorithm works in many cases for Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams whose objective is a soil burn severity assessment. It is not, however, appropriate in all ecosystems or fires. It is expected that BAER teams will adjust the thresholds to match field observations to produce a soil burn severity. This map layer is a thematic raster image of burn severity classes for all inventoried fires occurring in CONUS during calendar year 2021. Fires omitted from this mapped inventory are those where suitable satellite imagery was not available, or fires which were not discernable from available imagery.

Tags: baer, burn-severity, burned-area, burned-area-emergency-response, differenced-normalized-burn-ratio, fire-location, imagerybasemapsearthcover, landsat, location, normalized-burn-ratio, sentinel, united-states, us, usgs-62e7ccfdd34e749ac04cb8e8, wildfire, wildland-fire
Organization: Department of the Interior
Simulation and visualization of coastal tsunami impacts from the SAFRR tsunami source - Maximum tsunami velocity model of Oakland/Alameda, California

A high-resolution raster dataset of simulated maximum tsunami velocities in the Oakland and Alameda area of California based on the Science Application for Risk Reduction (SAFRR) tsunami scenario.

Tags: alameda, cmhrp, coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-analysis, geospatial-datasets, oakland, oceans, pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center, pcmsc, predictions, society, state-of-california, tsunamis, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-618c3c25d34ec04fc9c863ad
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hydrogeologic data of the Russian River Watershed, Sonoma and Mendocino Counties, California (ver. 1.1, July 2023)

This data release contains digital data generated by the U.S. Geological Survey under cooperative agreements with Sonoma County Water Agency and the California State Water Resources Control Board to characterize the three-dimensional hydrogeology and water quality of the Russian River Watershed, located in the northern part of the California Coast Ranges section of the Pacific Border province. This dataset contains borehole lithologic and hydrologic data, geospatial data of a three-dimensional hydrogeologic framework model (3D HFM), and gravity data used to support development of the framework model. 
The borehole dataset is released as a series of .csv ascii files including (1) individual borehole location and construction information, (2) downhole lithologic interval data derived from well driller’s lithology logs and parsed to a series of textural descriptors, and (3) calculated specific capacity from driller’s pumping tests. In addition to the borehole data, a folder containing drillers logs used in the dataset, but not in California Department of Water Resources database of scanned driller’s logs is contained within the data release for reference. The geospatial database contains a polygon feature class that is a 2-dimensional representation of the 3D HFM. The polygon feature class is a cellular array where each model cell has multiple attributes including XY location, and interpolated elevations and thicknesses of hydrogeologic units. The 3D HFM was constructed using methods from previously published reports. Gravity data collected in support of 3D framework construction are present as a “child” item of the main data release. Sources of geologic data, 3D HFM construction methods, and additional gravity data can be found in the metadata.

Tags: california, farming, groundwater, groundwater-level, hydrogeology, lithostratigraphy, sonoma, usgs-5f6b79c782ce38aaa245153a, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Recent Sediments of the Scotian Shelf acquired in 1962 (PEZZETTA shapefile)

A reconnaissance survey of that part of the Scotian Shelf extending from Halifax to Digby Nook was conducted during October, 1961, in order to determine the nature, distribution, and source areas of the bottom sediments. In general, the fine grained deposits of silt and clay (pelite) are found in the basins on the shelf as well as in the deeper water at the upper edge of the continental slope. Coarse grained deposits characterize topologically high areas and along the shelf margin.

Tags: atlantic-ocean, canadian-east-coast, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continental-shelf, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, gis, grain-size, grain-size-analysis, gravel, location, marine-geology, mud, navigational-data, nova-scotia, nova-scotian-shelf, oceans, open-file-report-03-001, point-shapefile, points, sand, sea-floor-characteristics, sediment, sediment-classification, shelf, surficial-classification, texture, u-s-east-coast, u-s-geological-survey, usgs, usgs-79c2823c-45ee-49ce-b47a-cdf8741fd9f6, whsc, woods-hole-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Central Mojave Desert Vegetation Mapping Project, California, 1997-1999: Field Data

The Mojave Vegetation field data were collected to provide context for the classification of the Central Mojave Desert into various vegetation classes. The field data consist of five CSV tables, recovered from their original Microsoft Access format, that together describe the vegetative, environmental and geomorphic properties of the Central Mojave Desert at the time of collection, 1997-1999. The portion of the study’s field data preserved in this release consists of observations made at the 1,219 points included in the plots points shapefile (plots_points.shp) found on the Plots Points and Photographs ScienceBase page. The field measurements (described here) and photographs (described in the Plots Points and Photographs metadata record) contributed to the creation of the Mojave Vegetation Polygons classification and the Mojave Special Features classification, two additional pieces of this data release. 
The metadata record (Mojave-Vegetation-Mapping_Field-Data-Metadata.xml) and tabular field data (5 CSV files, Field_Data.zip) are available as attachments on the Field Data ScienceBase item.

Tags: arid-lands, biota, california, california-plants, california-vegetation, china-lake-naval-weapons-center, death-valley-national-park, desert-southwest, ft-irwin-military-reservation, marine-corps-air-ground-combat-center, mojave-desert, mojave-national-preserve, mojave-plants, mojave-vegetation, national-vegetation-classification, north-america, southern-california, special-features, united-states, usgs-5ab8fb81e4b081f61ab9c6d4, vegetation, vegetation-alliances
Organization: Department of the Interior
Meteorological Data from Two Locations in the Agashashok River Watershed, Northwestern Alaska, 2015 to 2017

Meteorological data was collected from two locations in the Agashashok River Watershed, one high in the drainage located on tundra (67.5440 N, 161.6828 W) and a second on a rocky knoll near the watershed mouth (67.2821 N, 162.5841 W). The data contain information on air temperatures, rainfall, barometric pressure, relative humidity, incoming and outgoing radiation, and wind speed and direction. Data collection was discontinued due to equipment failure and substantial demolition of one station by a bear.

Tags: agashashok-river, alaska, atmospheric-pressure-measurements, atmospheric-temperature, climatologymeteorologyatmosphere, environment, field-inventory-and-monitoring, geoscientificinformation, humidity, hydrology, incoming-solar-radiation, kotzebue, liquid-precipitation, longwave-radiation, lower-noatak-river, northwest-alaska, permafrost, precipitation-atmospheric, usgs-asc316, wind-speed-wind-direction
Organization: Department of the Interior
Streams layers from the Hydrologic Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database -- Asia

This dataset contains the streams derived from the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for the Asian continent from the Hydrological Derivatives for Modeling and Analysis (HDMA) database. The HDMA database provides comprehensive and consistent global coverage of raster and vector topographically derived layers, including raster layers of digital elevation model (DEM) data, flow direction, flow accumulation, slope, and compound topographic index (CTI); and vector layers of streams and catchment boundaries. The coverage of the data is global (-180º, 180º, -90º, 90º) with the underlying DEM being a hybrid of three datasets: HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales), Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). For most of the globe south of 60º North, the raster resolution of the data is 3-arc-seconds, corresponding to the resolution of the SRTM. For the areas North of 60º, the resolution is 7.5-arc-seconds (the smallest resolution of the GMTED2010 dataset) except for Greenland, where the resolution is 30-arc-seconds. The streams and catchments are attributed with Pfafstetter codes, based on a hierarchical numbering system, that carry important topological information.

Tags: dem-stream-hydrologic-derivatives-pfafstetter, digital-elevation-models, elevation, inlandwaters, pfafstetter, streams, usgs-592866bae4b016f7a93f8cb2
Organization: Department of the Interior
l284an.m77t - MGD77 data file for Geophysical data from field activity L-2-84-AN in Antarctica from 02/03/1984 to 03/03/1984

Single-beam bathymetry, gravity, and magnetic data along with DGPS navigation data was collected as part of field activity L-2-84-AN in Antarctica from 02/03/1984 to 03/03/1984, http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l284an/html/l-2-84-an.meta.html
These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l284an/html/l-2-84-an.bath.html, http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l284an/html/l-2-84-an.grav.html, and http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/l/l284an/html/l-2-84-an.mag.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.

Tags: antarctic, antarctic-ocean, antarctic-southern-ocean, antarctica, bathymetry, bathymetry-and-elevation, bathymetry-measurement, distributions, geoscientificinformation, gravimeter-measurement, gravimetry, magnetic-anomalies, magnetic-field-observations, magnetometer-measurement, marine-geology, marine-geophysics, marine-gravity-field, marine-magnetic-field, oceans, pacific-ocean, ross-sea, seafloor-topography, single-beam-echo-sounder, usgs-9ed38bc6-cc39-4257-b92a-a25fe1c80a85, water-depth
Organization: Department of the Interior
Lake Bluffs point cloud from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Sodus Bay, New York in July 2017 (LAZ file)

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinity of Sodus Bay, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control points, and transect points; geolocated, RGB-colored point clouds; orthomosaic images; and digital elevation models for each of the survey regions. Collection of these data was supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the State of New York Departments of State and Environmental Conservation, and the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program and was conducted under USGS field activity number 2017-042-FA.
        

Tags: 3dr-solo-quadcopter, aerial-imagery, aerial-photography, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, elevation, federal-emergency-management-agency, field-activity-number-2017-042-fa, geoscientificinformation, great-lakes, inlandwaters, lake-bluffs, lake-level, lake-ontario, lakeshore, las, laz, location, low-altitude-aerial-imagery, new-york, photographs, photos, point-clouds, points, remote-sensing, ricoh-grii, shoreline, shoreline-photographs, sodus-bay, sodus-ny, sodus-point, state-of-new-york-department-of-environmental-conservation, state-of-new-york-department-of-state, topography, u-s-geological-survey, uas, unmanned-aerial-system, usa, usgs, usgs-5b1ee160e4b092d965254a60, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Long and short-term shoreline intersect points for the central coast of North Carolina (NCcentral), calculated using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled national shoreline data for more than 20 years to document coastal change and serve the needs of research, management, and the public. Maintaining a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor national shoreline evolution over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers and planners understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. 
This data release includes one new mean high water (MHW) shoreline extracted from lidar data collected in 2017 for the entire coastal region of North Carolina which is divided into four subregions: northern North Carolina (NCnorth), central North Carolina (NCcentral), southern North Carolina (NCsouth), and western North Carolina (NCwest). Previously published historical shorelines for North Carolina (Kratzmann and others, 2017) were combined with the new lidar shoreline to calculate long-term (up to 169 years) and short-term (up to 20 years) rates of change. Files associated with the long-term and short-term rates are appended with "LT" and "ST", respectively. A proxy-datum bias reference line that accounts for the positional difference in a proxy shoreline (e.g. High Water Line (HWL) shoreline) and a datum shoreline (e.g. MHW shoreline) is also included in this release.

Tags: accretion, atlantic-coast, coastal-processes, digital-shoreline-analysis-system, dsas, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, long-term-change, north-america, north-carolina, oceans, shoreline-accretion, shoreline-change, southeast-atlantic, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-64dfa90ed34e5f6cd553bc49, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Stream heat budget model input and scripts for simulating groundwater and thermal equilibrium controls on annual paired air-water temperature signal transport in headwater streams

We investigated the relative importance of groundwater (GW) and other local heat budget processes on downstream annual stream temperature signal characteristics using deterministic heat budget model (HFLUX) scenarios within an idealized stream reach representative of mountainous forested conditions. The purpose of this data release is to provide additional supplemental information for a published manuscript (Johnson et al., 2024). In this data release, we include (i) example input spreadsheets and an R script demonstrating how to read-in, edit, and export spreadsheet files without the need for a proprietary license, and (ii) MATLAB scripts necessary to run the HFLUX model and an example MATLAB script for developing our model scenarios. The latter does require a proprietary license to run the model, but the scripts can be viewed in a general text editor.

Tags: annual-stream-temperature, climate-change, equilibrium-temperature, groundwater-temperature, heat-budget-modeling, inlandwaters, thermal-regimes, usgs-65f0900dd34e140332983f5c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 355020  Guallatiri

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-58d0178be4b0236b68f53226, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior