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LEAN-Corrected DEM for Suisun Marsh Lidar-derived digital elevation models often contain a vertical bias due to vegetation. In areas with tidal influence the amount of bias can be ecologically significant, for example, by decreasing the expected inundation frequency. We generated a corrected digital elevation mode (DEM) for Suisun marsh using a modification of the Lidar Elevation Adjustment with NDVI (LEAN) technique (Buffington et al. 2016). GPS survey data (6912 points, collected across public and private land in 2018), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from an airborne multispectral image (June 2018), a 1 m lidar DEM from September 2018, and a 1 m canopy surface model were used to generate models of predicted bias across the... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Remote Sensing, San Francisco Bay Estuary, Suisun marsh, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), digital elevation models, All tags... elevation, estuary, lidar, wetlands, Fewer tags LEAN-corrected San Francisco Bay Digital Elevation Model, 2018 Lidar-derived digital elevation models often contain a vertical bias due to vegetation. In areas with tidal influence the amount of bias can be ecologically significant, for example, by decreasing the expected inundation frequency. We generated a corrected digital elevation mode (DEM) for tidal marsh areas around San Francisco Bay using the Lidar Elevation Adjustment with NDVI (LEAN) technique (Buffington et al. 2016). Survey-grade GPS survey data (6614 points), NAIP-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, and original 1 m lidar DEM from 2010 were used to generate a model of predicted bias across tidal marsh areas. The predicted bias was then subtracted from the original lidar DEM and merged with the NOAA... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Remote Sensing, San Francisco Bay, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, digital elevation models, All tags... estuary, lidar, wetlands, Fewer tags Hawaiian Islands Coastal Vegetation Survey 2013-2015 This dataset provides information on the current status and various other habitat and descriptive attributes of the native coastal vegetation for seven of the main Hawaiian Islands (i.e., does not include Ni`ihau). Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Ecology, Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Kauai, Lanai, All tags... Main Hawaiian Islands, Maui, Molokai, Oahu, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, aerial imagery, coastal ecosystems, habitats, plant communities, species richness, status, vegetation, Fewer tags Adirondack New York vegetation data, 2000-2015 This dataset contains field measurements of vegetation from the (1) Adirondack Sugar Maple Project (ASM), and (2) Buck Creek North and Buck Creek South Watersheds. The ASM data, collected in 2009 in 20 Adirondack watersheds (2 or 3 0.10 ha plots per watershed), are comprised of general plot characteristics, tree species identification and diameter at breast height (DBH) for all trees greater than 10 cm DBH, canopy position and health ratings, common and scientific names, and species identification and counts for saplings and seedlings. In Buck Creek North Tributary Watershed and Buck Creek South Tributary Watershed, near Inlet, New York, all trees greater than 5 cm DBH were identified in 15 circular plots (245 square... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Adirondack Mountains, Forestry, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), american beech, All tags... northern hardwood forest, sapling counts, seedling counts, sugar maple, tree basal area, tree dbh, Fewer tags LEAN-Corrected Collier County DEM for wetlands Lidar-derived digital elevation models often contain a vertical bias due to vegetation. In areas with tidal influence the amount of bias can be ecologically significant, for example, by decreasing the expected inundation frequency. We generated a corrected digital elevation model (DEM) for wetlands throughout Collier county using a modification of the Lidar Elevation Adjustment with NDVI (LEAN) technique (Buffington et al. 2016). GPS survey data (15,223 points), NAIP-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (2010), a 10 m lidar DEM from 2007, and a 10 m canopy surface model were used to generate a model of predicted bias across marsh, mangrove, and cypress habitats. The predicted bias was then subtracted from... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Collier county, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, cypress, All tags... digital elevation models, estuary, lidar, mangroves, marsh, wetlands, Fewer tags Geospatial Data Collected from Tagged Sea Otters in Central California, 1998-2012 The data are .csv files of tagged sea otter re-sighting locations (henceforth, resights) collected in the field using a combination of VHF radio telemetry and direct observation using high powered (80x) telescopes. Sea otters were tracked by shore based observers from the date of tagging until the time of radio battery failure or the animal’s death, whichever comes first. The frequency of re-sighting was opportunistic, depending on logistical factors such as coastal access, but generally ranged from daily to weekly. Location coordinates are reported as X and Y coordinates in the projection/datum California Teale-Albers NAD 1927. Each file contains resight data for one individual sea otter collected over a period... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: California, Half Moon Bay, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Channel Islands, Southern sea otter, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), VHF radio telemetry, animal movement, sighting locations, space use, Fewer tags The Sagebrush Biome Range Extent, as Derived from Classified Landsat Imagery This feature estimates the geographic extent of the sagebrush biome in the United States. It was created for the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agency’s (WAFWA) Sagebrush Conservation Strategy publication as a visual for the schematic figures. This layer does not represent the realized distribution of sagebrush and should not be used to summarize statistics about the distribution or precise location of sagebrush across the landscape. This layer is intended to generalize the sagebrush biome distribution using Landsat derived classified vegetation rasters (Rigge at al. 2019), Bureau of Land Management-designated Habitat Management Areas, state-designated Priority Areas for Conservation for sage-grouse, the... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Colorado, Ecology, All tags... Great Basin, Idaho, Information Sciences, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, Remote Sensing, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Western United States, Wyoming, biogeography, biota, sage, sagebrush, Fewer tags Reptile Richness in the Range of the Sage-grouse, Derived From Species Range Maps These data depict reptile species richness within the range of the Greater Sage-grouse. Species boundaries were defined as the total extent of a species geographic limits. This raster largely used species range data from "U.S. Geological Survey - Gap Analysis Project Species Range Maps CONUS_2001", however in order for a more complete picture of species richness, additional sources were used for species missing from the Gap Analysis program. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Class Chelonia, Class Reptilia, Class Testudines, All tags... Colorado, Ecology, Idaho, Lizard, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, Order Squamata, Oregon, Snake, Species Richness, Squamate, Turtle, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, biogeography, biota, herpetology, reptiles, Fewer tags Combined wildfire datasets for the United States and certain territories, 1878-2019 ***This data set is superseded by Welty, J.L., and Jeffries, M.I., 2021, Combined wildland fire datasets for the United States and certain territories, 1800s-Present: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ZXGFY3.*** This dataset is comprised of four different zip files. Zip File 1: A combined wildfire polygon dataset ranging in years from 1878-2019 (142 years) that was created by merging and dissolving fire information from 12 different original wildfire datasets to create one of the most comprehensive wildfire datasets available. Attributes describing fires that were reported in the various source data, including fire name, fire code, ignition date, controlled date, containment date, and... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Forestry, Land Use Change, North America, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, burned area, count of times burned, environment, fire, fires, first year burned, geospatial datasets, most recent year burned, wildfire, Fewer tags Blackwater LEAN-Corrected Chesapeake Bay Digital Elevation Models, 2019 Lidar-derived digital elevation models often contain a vertical bias due to vegetation. In areas with tidal influence the amount of bias can be ecologically significant, for example, by decreasing the expected inundation frequency. We generated a corrected digital elevation model (DEM) for the area surrounding Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Chesapeake Bay using a modification of the Lidar Elevation Adjustment with NDVI (LEAN) technique (Buffington et al. 2016). GPS survey data (3699 points, collected across four tidal marsh sites in Chesapeake Bay (Eastern Neck, Martin, Bishops Head, and Blackwater) in 2010 and 2017. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from an airborne multispectral image... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Chesapeake Bay, biota, digital elevation models, estuary, lidar, All tags... wetlands, Fewer tags East Marsh Island Marsh Creation (TV-21): 2021 land-water classification The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the East Marsh Island Marsh Creation (TV-21) project for 2021. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: CWPPRA, Geography, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, Louisiana, All tags... Louisiana Coastal, Remote Sensing, TV-21, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, aerial photography, conservation, digital elevation models, ecosystem monitoring, farming, geographic information systems, image collections, image mosaics, remote sensing, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Adirondack New York soil chemistry data, 1997-2014 This dataset contains measurements of chemical concentrations of forest soil samples and associated site measurements collected in the Adirondack Ecoregion of New York State. Data are presented in four groups (tabs) in an Microsoft EXCEL 2013 spreadsheet (and comma-delimited CSV files): (1) Adirondack Sugar Maple Project (ASM), (2) Buck Creek North Watershed, (3) Buck Creek South Watershed, and (4) Western Adirondack Stream Survey (WASS) soil sampling. The ASM data were all collected in 2009 and the WASS data were all collected in 2004. The Buck Creek North Tributary Watershed was sampled in 1997 and repeated at the same plot locations in 2009/10. The Buck Creek South Tributary Watershed was sampled in 1998 and... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Adirondack Mountains, Forestry, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), base saturation, All tags... calcium chloride extractable pH, cation exchange capacity (CEC), exchangeable acidity, exchangeable aluminum, exchangeable calcium, exchangeable hydrogen, exchangeable magnesium, exchangeable potasium, exchangeable sodium, soil chemistry, soil horizon thickness, soil horizons, soil science, soils data, total carbon, total nitrogen, water extractable pH, weight loss on ignition, Fewer tags Bayou Dupont Sediment Delivery System (BA-39): 2021 land-water classification The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Bayou Dupont Sediment Delivery System (BA-39) project for 2021. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: BA-39, CWPPRA, Geography, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, All tags... Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, aerial photography, conservation, digital elevation models, ecosystem monitoring, environment, geographic information systems, image collections, image mosaics, remote sensing, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Coastal Cactus Wren Habitat Suitability Model for Southern California (2015) This habitat model was developed to delineate suitable habitat for coastal cactus wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) in southern California. A primary purpose of the model is to identify potential restoration sites that may not currently support cactus patches required by wrens, but which are otherwise highly suitable. These are areas that could be planted with cactus to increase wren populations, an important management objective for many land managers. We used the Partitioned Mahalanobis D2 modeling technique to construct alternative models with different combinations of environmental variables. Variables were calculated at each point in the center of a 150 m x 150 m cell in a grid of points across the landscape.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus, Los Angeles County, Orange County, Partitioned Mahalanobis D2, All tags... Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Ventura County, biota, coastal cactus wren, environment, geospatial analysis, habitats, landscape modeling, life sciences, multivariate statistical analysis, native species, niche modeling, shrubland ecosystems, species distribution models, statistical analysis, wildlife, Fewer tags Estuarine vegetated wetland change scenarios for estuaries in the conterminous United States, 1996–2019 This data release contains land cover-derived statistics regarding estuarine vegetated wetland area change within estuary drainage areas along the conterminous U.S. This dataset includes net change in estuarine vegetated wetland area based on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coastal Change Assessment Program (C-CAP) 1996 and 2016 land cover data. Net change was assessed between estuarine vegetated wetlands (i.e., estuarine marshes, mangroves, non-mangrove estuarine woody wetlands, and salt pannes, depending on vegetation coverage and type) and the following other landcover classes: 1) water; 2) unconsolidated shore; 3) freshwater woody wetlands; 4) freshwater marsh; 5) upland; and 6) agriculture.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Atlantic, California, Connecticut, Delaware, All tags... District of Columbia, Ecology, Emergent Wetland, Estuarine Coastal, Florida, Forested Wetland, Geomorphology, Georgia, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pacific, Pennsylvania, Remote Sensing, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Washington, biota, coastal processes, effects of climate change, environment, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, land use and land cover, marsh ecosystems, remote sensing, sea-level rise, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Western United States 30m Heatload Values Heat load, a unitless value from 0 (low incident radiation) to around 1 (high incident radiation), is calculated using aspect, slope, and latitude (McCune and Dylan 2002). For the purposes of the exploration tool, the data are binned into 6 classes using Geometric Interval. Classes range from very low to very high and are designed to allow the classification of a polygon into its heat load types. McCune, B. and Keon, D., 2002, Equations for potential annual direct incident radiation and heat load: Journal of Vegetation Science, v. 13, no. 4, p. 603-606, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2002.tb02087.x. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Ecology, Geography, Heat Load, Heatload, Incident Radiation, All tags... Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Western North America, Western United States, environment, Fewer tags Fire Patterns in the Range of the Greater Sage-Grouse, 1984–2013—Implications for Conservation and Management Fire ranks among the top three threats to the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) throughout its range, and among the top two threats in the western part of its range. The national research strategy for this species and the recent U.S. Department of the Interior Secretarial Order 3336 call for science-based threats assessment of fire to inform conservation planning and fire management efforts. The cornerstone of such assessments is a clear understanding of where fires are occurring and what aspects of fire regimes may be shifting outside of their historical range of variation. Analyses are stratified by major vegetation types and the seven greater sage-grouse management zones, delineated regionally as... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Columbia Basin, Columbia Basin, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), greater sage-grouse, greater sage-grouse, All tags... soil-vegetation relationships, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildfires, wildland fires, wildland fires, wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index for western United States, 2001-2014, derived from gridMET climate estimates These data are 30m by 30 m grids of the mean Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) between 2001-2014 in the western United States. The SPEI index was developed by Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano and coauthors (https://spei.csic.es/index.html). Source evapotranspiration and precipitation data were generated by gridMET (http://www.climatologylab.org/gridmet.html). Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Climatology, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), atmospheric and climatic processes, climatology, All tags... climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, droughts, environment, precipitation (atmospheric), remote sensing, Fewer tags Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project – 2022 habitat map, North Breton Island This data release includes 2022 data for the Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project for North Breton Island. Specifically, this data release includes a detailed habitat map, general habitat map, georeferenced imagery, and a bare-earth digital elevation model (DEM) developed from light detection and ranging data. These habitat maps are developed using the methods and classification scheme from Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s (CPRA) Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program. For more details on BICM habitat classes, see the Entity and Attribute Information section of the metadata. Please consult the accompanying readME.txt file for information and recommendations on the contents... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Ecology, Geography, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Plaquemines, All tags... Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), elevation, environment, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags Delta Management at Fort St. Philip (BS-11): 2021 land-water classification The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Delta Management at Fort St. Philip (BS-11) project for 2021. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within their... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: BS-11, CWPPRA, Geography, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, All tags... Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, aerial photography, conservation, digital elevation models, ecosystem monitoring, environment, geographic information systems, image collections, image mosaics, remote sensing, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags 1 2 »