Geomorphology and Campsite Data, Colorado River, Marble and Grand Canyon, Arizona

This ESRI geodatabase consists of 5 feature datsets with 23 individual polygon feature classes and two raster datasets. A master campsite polygon feature class represents the boundaries of campsites identified in the 1973, 1984, and 1991 campsite inventories of the Colorado River corridor in Grand Canyon, Arizona. The other polygon feature classes represent camp locations along the Colorado River corridor in Grand Canyon, Arizona during different survey periods using different surveying techniques. The raster datasets represent sub-aerial and sub-surface sandbar surfaces at 37 long term-monitoring sites between Lees Ferry and Diamond Creek, Arizona in Grand Canyon National Park, measured in September and October...

Types: Citation; Tags: Arizona, Colorado River, Diamond Creek, GIS, Grand Canyon, All tags... Grand Canyon National Park, Lees Ferry, Little Colorado River, Marble Canyon, Paria River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), bathymetry, campsite, campsite area, campsite boundary, campsite inventory, campsite monitoring, campsite polygons, campsite survey, geographic information systems, geomorphology, land surveying, open sand area, raster data, recreation, sand deposits, sandbars, sonar, topography, vector data, Fewer tags

Aerial imagery data of the Colorado River Corridor, Arizona - 2021

In May 2021, the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (GCMRC) of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS), Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) acquired airborne multispectral high resolution data for the Colorado River in Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA. The imagery data consist of four bands (Band 1 – red, Band 2 – green, Band 3 – blue, and Band 4 – near infrared) with a ground resolution of 20 centimeters (cm). These image data are available to the public as 16-bit GeoTIFF files, which can be read and used by most geographic information system (GIS) and image-processing software. The spatial reference of the image data are in the State Plane (SP) map projection using the central Arizona zone (FIPS 0202)...

Tags: Arizona, Bright Angel Creek, Colorado River, Diamond Creek, GeoTIFF, All tags... Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Havasu Creek, Kanab Creek, Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lees Ferry, Leica ADS80/82, Little Colorado River, Marble Canyon, Page, Paria River, Peach Springs, Pearce Ferry, Shinumo Creek, Tapeats Creek, United States, aerial photography, airborne imagery, airborne multispectral high resolution data, data release, digital aerial imagery, four band image mosaic, image collections, image mosaics, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, infrared imaging, multispectral imaging, natural color, near infrared, orthoimagery, remote sensing, Fewer tags

Long-term sandbar monitoring data along the Colorado River in Marble and Grand Canyons, Arizona

This data release comprises nearly three decades of measurements of sandbar topography for monitoring sites along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The data were collected to monitor the effects of the operations of Glen Canyon Dam on sandbars, which are also recreational campsites. The data were collected by the US Geological Survey Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center in cooperation with Northern Arizona University. Funding for data collection, processing, and reporting has been provided by the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program administered by the US Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation.

Tags: Arizona, Colorado River, Ecology, Geography, Geomorphology, All tags... Glen Canyon Dam, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Canyon National Park, Hydrogeology, Information Sciences, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, aquatic ecosystems, campsites, dam operations, dams, deposition, elevation, erosion, field experiments, field inventory and monitoring, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, high-flow experiments, hydrology, hydropower, inlandWaters, measurements, monitoring, power generation water use, rebuild sandbars, recreation, recreational campsites, river ecosystems, rivers, sandbar topography, sandbars, sedimentation, size and condition of the sandbars, terrestrial ecosystems, topography, water resources, Fewer tags

Four Band Multispectral High Resolution Image Mosaic of the Colorado River Corridor, Arizona - 2021

In May 2021, the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (GCMRC) of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS), Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) acquired airborne multispectral high resolution data for the Colorado River in Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA. The imagery data consist of four bands (Band 1 – red, Band 2 – green, Band 3 – blue, and Band 4 – near infrared) with a ground resolution of 20 centimeters (cm). These image data are available to the public as 16-bit GeoTIFF files, which can be read and used by most geographic information system (GIS) and image-processing software. The spatial reference of the image data are in the State Plane (SP) map projection using the central Arizona zone (FIPS 0202)...

Tags: Arizona, Bright Angel Creek, Colorado River, Diamond Creek, ESRI shapefile, All tags... GeoTIFF, Geography, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Havasu Creek, Information Sciences, Kanab Creek, Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lees Ferry, Leica ADS80/82, Little Colorado River, Marble Canyon, Page, Paria River, Peach Springs, Pearce Ferry, Remote Sensing, Shinumo Creek, Tapeats Creek, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, aerial photography, airborne imagery, airborne multispectral high resolution data, data release, digital aerial imagery, four band image mosaic, geographic information systems, geospatial datasets, image collections, image mosaics, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, infrared imaging, multispectral imaging, natural color, near infrared, orthoimagery, remote sensing, study areas, Fewer tags

Geomorphic attributes of campsites adjacent to the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, AZ (Provisional Release)

This dataset represents 505 campsites along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon with associated debris flow probabilities calculated for approximately a 100-year period (Griffiths and others, 2004) and geomorphic attributes mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (USGS-GCMRC) (Hadley and others, 2018). The campsite polygons were developed as part of a master campsite database that was a collaborative effort to maintain between the National Park Service in Grand Canyon National Park and the USGS-GCMRC. Debris flow probabilities have been added as an attribute from ungauged tributary watersheds published in 2004 (Griffiths and others, 2004). Area and percentages of campsites...

Categories: Data, Data Release - In Progress, Data Release - Provisional; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arizona, Colorado River, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Canyon, All tags... Grand Canyon National Park, Marble Canyon, USGS:6616a79bd34e7eb9eb7d647a, backcountry, boundaries, campsite, cartography, data release, digitization, earth sciences, geography, geomorphic units, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, land surface characteristics, landslides, recreation, river systems, slope processes, study areas, Fewer tags

Debris flow probabilities of ungaged tributaries to the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, AZ (Provisional Release)

This dataset represents 740 tributary canyons and/or watersheds adjacent to the Colorado River in Grand Canyon with associated debris flow probabilities from 2004. Also, these data include tributarys canyon and/or watersheds to Glen Canyon and several smaller watersheds in Grand Canyon where debris flow data is currently unavailable. Historic probabilities of debris flow occurrence were estimated by modeling the known frequency distribution with drainage basin parameters observed to control the process by which debris flows initiate and travel to the river. Observations from 1984 through 2003 provide a 20-year record of all debris flows that reached the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, and repeat photography provides...

Categories: Data, Data Release - In Progress, Data Release - Provisional; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arizona, Colorado River, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, USGS:65c3d3b3d34ef4b119cae721, All tags... boundaries, canyon, data release, debris fan, debris flow, digitization, earth sciences, geography, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, ground failure, inlandWaters, land surface characteristics, landslide susceptibility assessment, landslides, rapids, river systems, slope failure, slope processes, tributary, watershed, Fewer tags

Digital Elevation Model of Glen Canyon Prior to the Flooding of Lake Powell from Historic Topographic Surveys, Utah and Arizona

Development of a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) of the pre-Glen Canyon Dam topography in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah and Arizona was initiated to assist the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in its Lake Powell coring program in the fall of 2018 (https://www.usgs.gov/centers/ut-water/science/lake-powell-coring). Topographic surveys of Glen Canyon were commissioned by the Bureau of Reclamation during the planning stages for Lake Powell as part of the Colorado River Storage Project (S. 500, 1956). The Colorado River arm was surveyed by Alster and Associates, Inc. in 1958 and 1959 at a contour interval of 10-feet from the river surface at the future dam site through where the 3,750-foot contour...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Animas River, Antelope Canyon, Bullfrog, Bullfrog Bay, Capitol Reef National Park, All tags... Castle Butte, Cataract Canyon, Cha Bay, Cha Canyon, Coconino County, Colorado River, Dangling Rope, Deep Canyon, Escalante River, Fourmile Canyon, Friendship Bay, Garfield County, Geomorphology, Glen Canyon Dam, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Gold King Mine, Good Hope Bay, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Great Bend, Gunsight Bay, Halls Bay, Halls Crossing, Hite, Hole in the Rock, Information Sciences, Kane County, Lake Powell, Land Use Change, Last Chance Bay, Mexican Hat, Navajo Canyon, Navajo Indian Reservation, Neshkahi Wash, Padre Bay, Page, Piute Canyon, Piute Farms Wash, Piute Mesa, Piute Wash, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Reflection Canyon, Rincon, Rock Creek Bay, San Juan County, San Juan River, Silverton, State of Arizona, State of Utah, Twomile Canyon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, Wahweap, Wahweap Bay, Warm Creek Bay, Water Quality, Water Resources, White Canyon, Wilson Mesa, Zahn Bay, bathymetry, digital elevation model, geomorphology, historical data, reservoir sedimentation, Fewer tags

Channel mapping Glen Canyon Dam to Lees Ferry in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona - Data

Bathymetric, topographic, and grain-size data were collected from May 2013 to October 2016 along a 15-mi reach of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona by the U.S. Geological Survey Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. The study reach is located from river miles -15 at the base of Glen Canyon Dam to 0 at Lees Ferry. Channel bathymetry was mapped using multibeam bathymetry collected in November 2014 and single beam bathymetry collected in February 2015, August 2015, February 2016, and June 2016. Subaerial topography was mapped using photogrammetry derived from aerial Imagery collected in May 2013 and ground-based total-stations collected in February 2015, October 2015, and October...

Tags: 1-m resolution, Arizona, Colorado River, DEM, Geography, All tags... Geomorphology, Glen Canyon Dam, Glen Canyon National Recreation AreaGrand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lees Ferry, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aerial photography, bathymetric and topographic data, bathymetric map, bathymetric survey data, bathymetry, bed substrate distribution, bed-substrate map, benchmarks, boat-based bathymetric sonar surveys, cartography, channel bathymetry, channel bed substrate, digital elevation models, digital photogrammetry, digital surface model dataset, elevation, elevation map, elevation uncertainty, environment, field inventory and monitoring, field monitoring stations, fuzzy inference system, geodesy, geodetic control network points, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gravel deposits, ground-based total station surveys, inlandWaters, land surveying, multibeam sonar, point density, remote sensing, river channel, river reaches, riverbank topography, roughness, sand deposits, sandbars, single-beam echo sounder, slope, spatial accuracy, subaerial topography, topographic maps, uncertainty, water-surface elevations, Fewer tags

Modeled and measured greenhouse gas emissions from Lake Powell and bathymetric analysis of tributary littoral habitat at different water levels

This data release contains model inputs used to estimate surface water greenhouse gas fluxes from two large arid reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead. The release also contains empirical, spatially explicit water quality and greenhouse gas data from a single field survey conducted in Lake Powell in July of 2017. Finally, this release contains surface area estimates of shallow (< 15m) tributary regions of Lake Powell under different water level scenarios.

Tags: 2d area, 3d area, Arizona, GHG Reservoir Tool, Lake Powell, All tags... Limnology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Water Quality, Water Resources, air temperature, arid environments, available literature, bathymetry, bathymetry data, bathymetry measurement, calcium, carbon dioxide, catchment areas, catchment runoff, chemical data, chorophyll a, desert southwest, direct measurements, dissolved oxygen, dissolved oxygen, elevation, emission estimates, floating chamber, generalized linear model, global models, greenhouse gases, inlandWaters, limnological data, limnology, littoral tributary surface area, mean monthly air temperature, methane, methane emissions, multiple linear regression model, net primary productivity, nitrogen, nutrient content (water), nutrient data, oxygen content (water), pH, phosphorus, regression analysis, reservoir characteristics, reservoir surface area, reservoirs, runoff, shallow tributary area, size productivity model, surface area, surface volume, temperature, topography, turbidity, volume, water chemistry, water depth, water intake depth, water levels, water pH, water properties, water quality, water sampling, water temperature, Fewer tags

Gross primary production estimates and associated light, sediment, and water quality data from the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam

These data were compiled to model the effects of flow regime and bed grain size distributions on rates of gross primary production (GPP) in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam, AZ, USA. The objectives of our study were to quantify daily and weekly scale effects of an experimental flow regime on GPP in the Colorado River. The experimental flow was conducted at Glen Canyon Dam from May-August in 2018, 2019, and 2020 and contrasted steady-low flows on weekend days with business-as-usual hydropeaking flows during weekdays. This data release only contains data through 2019. These data represent daily-scale estimates of GPP, discharge, turbidity, water depth, and canyon shading for eleven reaches on the Colorado...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Arizona, Colorado River, Ecology, Geochemistry, All tags... Geography, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Limnology, Marble Canyon, Sedimentology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS gage, Water Quality, Water Resources, bed grain size distributions, canyon shading, data release, discharge, dissolved gases, environment, experimental flow regime, field inventory and monitoring, flow regime, gas transfer, grain-size analysis, gross primary production, hydropeaking flows, inlandWaters, light attenuation, northern Arizona, sediment transport, stream discharge, stream-gage measurement, streamflow, surface water quality, turbidity, water depth, water quality, water resources, water sampling, water-quality data, weekly mean discharge, weekly mean gamma, Fewer tags

Spatial polygon footprint for the 105 aerial imagery tiles and 7 zones - 2021

In May 2021, the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (GCMRC) of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS), Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) acquired airborne multispectral high resolution data for the Colorado River in Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA. The imagery data consist of four bands (Band 1 – red, Band 2 – green, Band 3 – blue, and Band 4 – near infrared) with a ground resolution of 20 centimeters (cm). These image data are available to the public as 16-bit GeoTIFF files, which can be read and used by most geographic information system (GIS) and image-processing software. The spatial reference of the image data are in the State Plane (SP) map projection using the central Arizona zone (FIPS 0202)...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arizona, Bright Angel Creek, Colorado River, Diamond Creek, ESRI shapefile, All tags... Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Havasu Creek, Kanab Creek, Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lees Ferry, Little Colorado River, Marble Canyon, Page, Paria River, Peach Springs, Pearce Ferry, Shinumo Creek, Tapeats Creek, United States, data release, geographic information systems, geospatial datasets, image mosaics, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, study areas, Fewer tags

Horizontal accuracy assessment and shadow locations data

In May 2021, the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (GCMRC) of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS), Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) acquired airborne multispectral high resolution data for the Colorado River in Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA. The imagery data consist of four bands (Band 1 – red, Band 2 – green, Band 3 – blue, and Band 4 – near infrared) with a ground resolution of 20 centimeters (cm). These image data are available to the public as 16-bit GeoTIFF files, which can be read and used by most geographic information system (GIS) and image-processing software. The spatial reference of the image data are in the State Plane (SP) map projection using the central Arizona zone (FIPS 0202)...

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Bright Angel Creek, Colorado River, Diamond Creek, GeoTIFF, All tags... Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Havasu Creek, Kanab Creek, Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lees Ferry, Leica ADS80/82, Little Colorado River, Marble Canyon, Page, Paria River, Peach Springs, Pearce Ferry, Shinumo Creek, Tapeats Creek, United States, aerial photography, airborne imagery, airborne multispectral high resolution data, data release, digital aerial imagery, four band image mosaic, image collections, image mosaics, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, infrared imaging, multispectral imaging, natural color, near infrared, orthoimagery, remote sensing, Fewer tags

Modernizing sensor data workflows to leverage Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-based technologies

Drought is a major problem in the American Southwest that is expected to worsen under the effects of climate change. Currently, the Southwest Biological Science Center is monitoring the effects of drought with soil moisture probes in a range of ecosystems across an elevational gradient on the Colorado Plateau. These data are used in multiple studies to analyze the effects of drought on vegetation composition and demography. Accessing and analyzing that data still relies on traditional site visits, which can result in delayed recognition of erroneous data, a common pitfall in many field-science operations. We propose to improve upon this traditional data workflow by leveraging the use of Internet of Things (IoT)...

Categories: Project; Tags: 2021, All Funded Projects, Best Practices, Computational Tools and Services, Data and Information Assets, All tags... Guidance Document, Web Service, Fewer tags