AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 Site 0589 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 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.  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 2015 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.  Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012).  Once the program creates enough data points for statistical analyses, these data will be used for land area change rate calculation.

Tags: cartography, coastal, crms, doqq, geographic-information-system, imagerybasemapsearthcover, land-water, louisiana, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, state-of-louisiana, usgs-593874c7e4b0764e6c5d6b82, wetland
Organization: Department of the Interior
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2016 Site 0278 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 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. 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 2016 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. Three previous assessments have been conducted (2005, 2008, and 2012). 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-5b5f5242e4b006a11f66ea2a, wetland, wetland-ecosystems, wetland-restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hawaiian hoary bat nightly acoustic-visual detections and conditions at wind turbines, Maui Island 2018

The Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus semotus), a federally and state listed endangered subspecies, is the only extant native terrestrial mammal in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is an insectivorous, solitary and foliage-roosting species that generally roosts alone or in mother-pup family groups.   
The dataset for this release comprises the combined acoustic and video data tabulated by night and turbine, and was used to relate bat occurrence to nightly weather conditions and turbine operation. The acoustic and the video datasets have each their own set of processing steps that will appear in the respective metadata file.

Tags: behavior, biota, hawaiian-hoary-bat, usgs-5eab79dc82cefae35a225636, wind-turbine
Organization: Department of the Interior
UMRS Floodplain Inundation Model - Pool 3

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present the relative elevation of a slope-detrended floodplain terrain surface and river mile location used to map surface water depths derived from gaging locations along UMRS, as described in Van Appledorn et al. (2021; doi: 10.1002/rra.3628). We excluded areas permanently wetted (aquatic areas), surfaces in agricultural production, roads, and developed areas. The data are intended for use in geospatial analyses of UMRS floodplain ecosystem patterns and processes.

Tags: flood-plain, floods, freshwater-ecosystems, hydrology, river-systems, usgs-661ea9b3d34e7eb9eb7e3d4f
Organization: Department of the Interior
Human Factors of Water Availability in the Delaware River Basin - Recreational and Environmental Sector

Human factors that influence water availability in the Basin were discovered by reviewing hundreds of published literature items and articles from the literature following an extensive keyword search. The different factors were drawn from reviewing the literature and datasets to support the factor were researched across open data catalogs and the world wide web.

Tags: datasets, delaware, delaware-river-basin, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, industrial-water-use, inlandwaters, irrigation, new-jersey, new-york, pennsylvania, public-supply-water-sources, usgs-6221224ed34ee0c6b38b6212, water-supply-and-demand, water-use
Organization: Department of the Interior
Wind rose plots for the volcano: 322190  Jordan Craters

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-58d015ede4b0236b68f53021, volcanic-ash, volcanic-eruption-forecasting, wind
Organization: Department of the Interior
Elevation, Flow Accumulation, Flow Direction, and Stream Definition Data in Support of the Illinois StreamStats Upgrade to the Basin Delineation Database

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Illinois Center for Transportation and the Illinois Department of Transportation, prepared hydro-conditioned geographic information systems (GIS) layers for use in the Illinois StreamStats application. These data were used to delineate drainage basins and compute basin characteristics for updated peak flow and flow duration regression equations for Illinois. This dataset consists of raster grid files for elevation (dem), flow accumulation (fac), flow direction (fdr), and stream definition (str900) for each 8-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) area in Illinois merged into a single dataset. There are 51 full or partial HUC 8s represented by this data set: 04040002, 05120108, 05120109, 05120111, 05120112, 05120113, 05120114, 05120115, 05140202, 05140203, 05140204, 05140206, 07060005, 07080101, 07080104, 07090001, 07090002, 07090003, 07090004, 07090005, 07090006, 07090007, 07110001, 07110004, 07110009, 07120001, 07120002, 07120004 (0712003 was combined into this HUC), 07120005, 07120006, 07120007, 07130001, 07130002, 07130003, 07130004, 07130005, 07130006, 07130007, 07130008, 07130009, 07130010, 07130011, 07130012, 07140101, 07140105, 07140106, 07140108, 07140201, 07140202, 07140203, and 07140204.

Tags: environment, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, hydrology, illinois, indiana, land-surface-characteristics, michigan, streamflow, topography, usgs-6310bf9cd34e36012efa0e79, watershed-management, wisconsin
Organization: Department of the Interior
RES2DINV format continuous resistivity profile data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in Great South Bay on Long Island, New York, on Sept. 22, 2008

An investigation of submarine aquifers adjacent to the Fire Island National Seashore and Long Island, New York, was conducted to assess the importance of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) as a potential nonpoint source of nitrogen delivery to Great South Bay. More than 200 kilometers (km) of continuous resistivity profiling (CRP) data were collected to image the fresh-saline groundwater interface in sediments beneath the bay. In addition, groundwater sampling was performed at sites (1) along the northern shore of Great South Bay, particularly in Patchogue Bay, that were representative of the developed Long Island shoreline, and (2) at sites on and adjacent to Fire Island, a 50-km-long barrier island on the southern side of Great South Bay. Other field activities included sediment coring, stationary electrical resistivity profiling, and surveys of in-situ pore water conductivity. The onshore and offshore shallow hydrostratigraphy of the Great South Bay shorelines, particularly the presence and nature of submarine confining units, appears to exert primary control on the dimensions and chemistry of the submarine groundwater flow and discharge zones. Sediment coring has shown that the confining units commonly consist of drowned and buried peat layers likely deposited in salt marshes. Based on CRP data, low-salinity groundwater extends from 10 to 100 meters (m) offshore along much of the northern and southern shores of Great South Bay, especially off the mouths of tidal creeks, and beneath shallow flats to the north of Fire Island adjacent to modern salt marshes. Human modifications of much of the shoreline and nearshore areas along the northern shore of the bay, including filling of salt marshes, construction of bulkheads and piers, and dredging of navigation channels, has substantially altered the natural hydrogeology of the bay's shorelines by truncating confining units and increasing recharge near the shore in filled areas. Better understanding of the nature of SGD along developed and undeveloped shorelines of embayments such as this could lead to improved models and mitigation strategies for nutrient overenrichment of estuaries. For more information on the surveys involved in this project, see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2008-007-FA and https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2008-037-FA.

Tags: agi-supersting, bathymetry, cmgp, coastal-and-marine-geology-program, continuous-resistivity-profiling, crp, elevation, field-activity-number-2008-037-fa, fire-island, geoscientificinformation, great-south-bay, groundwater, info-bank-id-t-37-08-li, long-island, lowrance-gps, navigation, navigational-data, new-york, north-america, north-atlantic, oceans, processed-data, r-v-terrapin, res2dinv-format, submarine-groundwater, suffolk-county, u-s-geological-survey, united-states, usgs, usgs-d82e58b4-96e2-42d6-b135-e1db56e62ad3, whcmsc, woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
Organization: Department of the Interior
Orthophotos of the Buffalo National River in Arkansas acquired August 24, 2021

Digital aerial photographs of the Buffalo National River in northern Arkansas were acquired on August 24, 2021 to support research on remote sensing of benthic algae. The images included in this data release were obtained by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service using the following key pieces of equipment: Quest Kodiak K100 aircraft, PhaseOne iXURS-1000 4-band (RGB and NIR) 100 mega-pixel medium format digital camera, SOMAG gyro-stabilized/vibration isolation sensor mounting, and POS AV510 GNSS/IMU navigational system. The original images were processed using photogrammetry software to generate orthophotos for the entire project area, delivered as GeoTIFF tiles.  The tiles covering each of the two primary study reaches were identified and combined into a separate mosaic for each reach using ArcMap GIS software. This data release includes a comma-delimited (*.csv) text file with a listing of the orthophoto mosaics with columns: River, Reach, AcquisitionDate, Sensor, PixelSizeMeters, Projection, Datum, and ImageFileName. The images are provided as GeoTIFF files with an embedded header that includes spatial referencing information. The map projection and datum for these data are UTM Zone 15 N and WGS84, respectively. This image data set was used to produce spectrally based depth estimates and classifications of benthic algal coverage.

Tags: algae, arkansas, bathymetry, benthic, buffalo-river, depth, gilbert, harmful-algal-bloom-hab, maumee, remote-sensing, river, submerged-aquatic-vegetation, usgs-5dcd957be4b069579760af8c
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for Estimating McKay's Bunting (Plectrophenax hyperboreus) Population Change on St. Matthew and Hall Islands, Alaska

This dataset consists of three tables relating to (1) detections of adult McKay's Buntings from line transect with distance estimation surveys on St. Matthew and Hall islands in Alaska between May 30 and June 29, 2003 and June 6 and 11, 2018, (2) environmental covariates associated with detections of adult McKay's Buntings in less than or equal to 250-m long contiguous transect segments, and (3) environmental covariates used to predict McKay's Bunting population size in less than or equal to 300 x 300-m pixels across the study area in each year, and to estimate population change between years.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, biota, birds, breeding-sites, buntings, coastal-ecosystems, endemic-species, environment, field-inventory-and-monitoring, hall-island, mathematical-modeling, migratory-birds, passerines, perching-birds, phenology, population-dynamics, population-size, saint-matthew-island, seasonal-distribution, songbirds, species-population-interactions, terrestrial-ecosystems, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-asc553
Organization: Department of the Interior
Model Archive Summary for acoustic derived suspended sediment concentration at 14246900 Columbia River at Port Westward NR Quincy, OR (version 2.0)

This model archive summary documents the suspended sediment concentration (SSC) model (version 2.0) developed to compute 5-minute SSC data of the Columbia River at Port Westward, near Quincy, OR, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) site number 14246900. The methods used follow USGS guidance as referenced in USGS Techniques and Methods, Book 3, Chap. C2 (Edwards and others, 1999); Office of Surface Water Technical Memorandum (TM) 2016.07 (USGS, 2016); Office of Water Quality TM 2016.10; USGS Techniques and Methods, book 3, chap. C5 (Landers and others, 2016); and USGS Techniques and Methods, book 3, chap. C4 (Rasmussen and others, 2009).  The time series suspended sediment data will help determine the suspended sediment concentration at the site in real-time enabling science entities, managers, and others, track the movement of sediment in the Columbia River.

Tags: geomorphology, hydrology, sedimentology, usgs-677435b3d34eea454343c4a2, water-quality, water-resources
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data Release for Analysis of Vegetation Recovery Surrounding a Restored Wetland using the Normalized Difference Infrared Index (NDII) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)

This dataset contains data used in the associated publication in the International Journal of Remote Sensing.Wilson, Natalie R., and Laura M. Norman. 2018. “Analysis of Vegetation Recovery Surrounding a Restored Wetland Using the Normalized Difference Infrared Index (NDII) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI).” International Journal of Remote Sensing 39 (10): 3243–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1437297.The geodatabase contains four feature classes: AOI, MajorZone, MinorZone, and Green2007.Publication abstract: Watershed restoration efforts seek to rejuvenate vegetation, biological diversity, and land productivity at Cienega San Bernardino, an important wetland in southeastern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico. Rock detention and earthen berm structures were built on the Cienega San Bernardino over the course of four decades, beginning in 1984 and continuing to the present. Previous research findings show that restoration supports and even increases vegetation health despite ongoing drought conditions in this arid watershed. However, the extent of restoration impacts is still unknown despite qualitative observations of improvement in surrounding vegetation amount and vigor. We analyzed spatial and temporal trends in vegetation greenness and soil moisture by applying the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and normalized difference infrared index (NDII) to one dry summer season Landsat path/row from 1984 to 2016. The study area was divided into zones and spectral data for each zone was analyzed and compared with precipitation record using statistical measures including linear regression, Mann– Kendall test, and linear correlation. NDVI and NDII performed differently due to the presence of continued grazing and the effects of grazing on canopy cover; NDVI was better able to track changes in vegetation in areas without grazing while NDII was better at tracking changes in areas with continued grazing. Restoration impacts display higher greenness and vegetation water content levels, greater increases in greenness and water content through time, and a decoupling of vegetation greenness and water content from spring precipitation when compared to control sites in nearby tributary and upland areas. Our results confirm the potential of erosion control structures to affect areas up to 5 km downstream of restoration sites over time and to affect 1 km upstream of the sites.

Tags: arizona, data-release, remote-sensing, sonora, spatial-analysis, usgs-5a2ecc42e4b08e6a89d3fbfb, vegetation, watershed-restoration, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
LANDFIRE Remap Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands

The LANDFIRE 2016 Remap (LF Remap) Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) calculates fuelbed characteristics and their potential fire behavior and effects. LF defines fuelbed as: the inherent physical characteristics of fuel that contribute to fire behavior and effects (Riccardi et al. 2007). FCCS represents the composition of fuels, and features six horizontal fuel layers called stratums (canopy, shrubs, herbs, downed wood, litter and duff). FCCS can be used for predicting surface fire behavior, crown fire potential, and fuel availability. FCCS fuelbeds are included preloaded in the US Forest Service (USFS) Fuel and Fire Tools (FFT) application. 
LF collaborated with the Fire and Environmental Research Applications (FERA) team of the USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station for creation of the FCCS product. Rule-based methods for crosswalks and mapping FCCS fuelbeds are constructed from the LF Remap Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) product. The EVT-to-fuelbed crosswalk rules often allow for several possibilities for fuelbeds; expert opinion is used to assign the most representative fuelbed and to determine where additional fuelbed development is necessary. FCCS fuelbed mapping should be considered a starting point and customized to represent sampled fuels within a project area. FCCS is a capable fuels product, capable fuels calculate TSD assignments for disturbed areas using an effective year. For example, year 2020 fuels may be calculated for the year 2020. the new process considers all the existing disturbances included in LF Remap and adjusts the TSD for these to the effective year (2020 in the example), making the products "2020 capable fuels." More information about capable fuels can be found at https://www.landfire.gov/lf_remap.php. See the FCCS product page on the LF website for additional details https://www.landfire.gov/fccs.php.

Tags: biota, fccs, fires, fuel-characteristic-classification-system, geographic-information-systems, geospatial-datasets, hazard-preparedness, ia, image-collections, imagerybasemapsearthcover, insular-areas, landfire-2016-remap, lf-2016-remap, oconus, puerto-rico, raster-digital-data, remote-sensing, u-s-forest-service-usfs, u-s-geological-survey-usgs, united-states, us, us-virgin-islands, usgs-3ba3acca-116c-4800-82cf-0804dc3d0063
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ecological modeling output for the Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual iterations 1 and 2 (of 3), 2021

Ecological models facilitate the evaluation and assessment of alternative approaches to restore the Greater Everglades ecosystem. Joint Ecosystem Modeling (JEM) provides ecological models tailored to address specific management issues. The multi-agency REstoration, COordination and VERification (RECOVER) science team uses ecological models (i.e., ecological planning tools) to evaluate the potential effects of projects in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) on natural resources. The planning agencies and bureaus involved in CERP desire to also use these ecological planning tools for the evaluation of alternative water control plans to be performed by the Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual (LOSOM) Project Delivery Team (PDT). The models of particular interest to the LOSOM PDT are: (1) Marl Prairie Habitat Suitability Index in conjunction with the (2) Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Helper, (3) (native) Apple Snail population model (EverSnail), (4) Snail Kite Nesting Habitat Selection model (KiteNest) (5) Wading bird occupancy model (EverWaders), (6) Small-sized freshwater fish density, and (7) American alligator habitat suitability index (HSI). The LOSOM PDT evaluates water control plans using an iterative process to ultimately arrive at a final plan that balances flood control, water supply, navigation, recreation, and preservation of fish and wildlife resources. This data release provides ecological model outputs for iteration 1 and 2 (of 3). Ecological modeling outputs for LOSOM iteration 3 (of 3) can be found at the following location: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9NOM50H.

Tags: ecological-modeling, environment, everglades, florida, united-states-of-america, usgs-621fa557d34ee0c6b38a854f
Organization: Department of the Interior