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Acoustic backscatter - Data and Python Code These data were compiled for investigating the relationship between acoustic backscattering by riverbeds composed of various riverbed substrates (bed sediment), and for developing and testing a probabilistic model for substrate classification based on high-frequency multibeam acoustic backscatter. The model is described in Buscombe et al. (2017). The data consist of various quantities on coincident grids, from various sites along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, including water depth, bed roughness, the area (or footprint) of the acoustic beam, unfiltered and filtered backscatter magnitude, sediment classification (for each location, 1 of 5 sediment classes in a categorical scheme), and the probabilities for... Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Colorado River, Geography, Geomorphology, Glen Canyon, All tags... Grand Canyon, Information Sciences, Marble Canyon, Remote Sensing, Southwestern United States, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, acoustic remote sensing, ecogeomorphology, fluvial geomorphology, fluvial sediment transport, multibeam backscatter, probabilistic modeling, seafloor mapping, stochastic modeling, submerged aquatic vegetation, substrate mapping, Fewer tags Vegetation and water classifications for a segment of the Paria River upstream of the Colorado River Confluence, Arizona, USA These data represent total vegetation and surface water along approximately 12 kilometers of the Paria River upstream from the confluence of the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona. They are derived from airborne, multispectral imagery obtained in late May 2009, 2013, and 2021, collected with a push-broom sensor with 4 spectral bands depicting Blue, Green, Red and Near-Infrared wavelengths at a spatial resolution of 20 centimeters. The vegetation classification data were created using a supervised classification algorithm provided by Harris Geospatial in ENVI version 5.6.3 (Exelis Visual Information Solutions, Boulder, Colorado). The water data were created using a Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index... Tags: Arizona, Botany, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF data, Colorado River, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lees Ferry, Lonely Dell, Marble Canyon, Northern Arizona, Paria River, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Resources, airborne imagery, biota, change detection, classification maps, data release, ecosystem monitoring, flooding, gNDVI, image classification, image collections, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, inlandWaters, maps and atlases, multispectral high resolution data, multispectral imaging, remote sensing, riparian vegetation, river ecosystems, river reaches, river systems, river tributaries, supervised classification, surface water (non-marine), total vegetation, vegetation, vegetation classification maps, water maps, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags BioLake bioclimatic variables based on ERA5-Land lake temperature estimates 1991-2020 These BioLake raster data provide global estimates (~10.0 x 12.4 km resolution) of twelve bioclimatic variables based on estimated lake temperature. Eleven of these twelve variables (BioLake01 - BioLake11) are estimated for each of three lake strata: lake mix (surface) layer, lake bottom, and total lake water column. These eleven variables correspond to CHELSA (Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas) bioclimatic variables BIO1 - BIO11, except that these BioLake variables are based on lake water temperature and CHELSA BIO1 - BIO11 variables are based on air temperature. CHELSA BIO is also calculated a finer spatial resolution (~1 x 1 km). The twelfth variable (BioLake20; months with non-zero... Tags: Aquatic Biology, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, biota, All tags... climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, lake temperature, lake temperature, water temperature, water temperature, Fewer tags Distribution Models Predicting Groundwater Influenced Ecosystems in the Northeastern United States Globally, groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) are increasingly vulnerable to groundwater extraction and land use practices. Groundwater supports these ecosystems by providing inflow, which can maintain water levels, water temperature, and chemistry necessary to sustain the biodiversity that they support. Many aquatic systems receive groundwater as a portion of base flow, and in some systems (e.g., springs, seeps, fens) the connection with groundwater is significant and important to the system’s integrity and persistence. Groundwater management decisions for human use may not consider ecological effects of those actions on GDEs, which rely on groundwater to maintain ecological function. This disconnect between... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Ecology, Hydrology, Land Use Change, New England, Remote Sensing, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, groundwater, groundwater influenced ecosystems, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, modeling, northeastern United States, northeastern states, prediction, Fewer tags Freshwater Introduction South of Highway 82 (ME-16): 2018 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 Freshwater Introduction South of Highway 82 (ME-16) project for 2018. 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... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: CWPPRA, Ecology, Geography, Geography, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Land Use Change, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, ME-16, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aerial photography, conservation, digital elevation models, ecosystem monitoring, geographic information systems, image collections, image mosaics, remote sensing, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Oyster Bayou Marsh Creation and Terracing (CS-59): 2018 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 Oyster Bayou Marsh Creation and Terracing (CS-59) project for 2018. 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: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: CS-59, CWPPRA, Geography, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, All tags... Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aerial photography, conservation, digital elevation models, ecosystem monitoring, geographic information systems, image collections, image mosaics, remote sensing, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags February 2020 National Wetlands Inventory, Mississippi Barrier Islands Habitat Classification: (Cat Island, Ship Island, Petit Bois Island and Horn Island) This data set consists of digital data describing wetlands and uplands habitats for the Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP) area, consisting of Cat, Ship, Horn and Petit Bois Islands for the year 2020. Wetlands were classified using the Cowardin, et al., wetlands classification scheme to the level of freshwater and tidal, salinity modifiers. Uplands were classified using a customized classification scheme which can be cross-referenced to Anderson, et. al. For this dataset, upland dunes were delineated as areas at or above 1.524 meters (5 feet) as determined in the Lidar data that was referenced without modification for this classification. With this elevation criteria some delineated upland dune features... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Cat Island, Geography, Habitats, Horn Island, Land Use Change, All tags... Land Use Change, Mississippi Barrier Islands, Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MSCIP), National Wetlands Inventory, National Wetlands Inventory (NWI), Petit Bois Island, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, Ship Island, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wetland ecosystems, avian resources, biota, coastal ecosystems, environment, habitat analysis, habitat monitoring, marine, terrestrial, turtle resources, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project – 2022 habitat map, Whiskey Island This data release includes 2022 data for the Louisiana Outer Coast Restoration Project for Whiskey Island. Specifically, this data release includes a detailed habitat map, general habitat map, and georeferenced imagery. 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 of this dataset (that is, dataset and recommended symbology). For more information about BICM... Tags: Ecology, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Remote Sensing, All tags... Terrebonne, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), environment, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2015 land-water classifications 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... Tags: CRMS, DOQQ, Geographic Information System, Geography, Geomorphology, All tags... Land Use Change, Louisiana, Remote Sensing, State of Louisiana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), cartography, coastal, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, land-water, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, wetland, Fewer tags Channel Armor Gap Crevasse (MR-06): 2016 Land-Water Classification The Louisiana State Legislature created 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 persuant 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 Channel Armor Gap Crevasse (MR-06) project for 2016. This data set 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 project... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: BA-02, CWPPRA, Coastal Louisiana, DEM, DOQQ, All tags... GIS, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Louisiana, Remote Sensing, South Louisiana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aerial photography, coastal conservation, coastal enhancement, coastal restoration, image, monitoring, mosaic, rectification, satelite imagery, scan, wetlands, Fewer tags Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) 2021 land-water classification data, Eastern Louisiana 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... Tags: CRMS, DOQQ, Ecology, Emergent Wetland, Forested Wetland, All tags... Geographic Information System, Geography, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Remote Sensing, Scrub-Shrub Wetland, State of Louisiana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), alteration of wetland habitats, cartography, coastal, coastal Louisiana, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, land-water, mapping, marsh, protection, restoration, wetland, wetland, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Modeling barrier island habitats using landscape position information for Dauphin Island, Alabama Barrier islands provide important ecosystem services, including storm protection and erosion control to the mainland, habitat for fish and wildlife, and tourism (Barbier and others, 2011; Feagin and others, 2010). These islands tend to be dynamic due to their location along the estuarine-marine interface. Besides gradual changes caused by constant forces, such as currents and tides, barrier islands face numerous threats including hurricanes, accelerated sea-level rise, oil spills, and anthropogenic impacts (Pilkey and Cooper, 2014). These threats are likely to influence the future of barrier islands in the latter part of the 21st century, especially as climate-related threats to coastal areas are expected to increase... Tags: Ecology, Geography, Geomorphology, Gulf of Mexico, Lower Alabama, All tags... Mobile, Monte Carlo, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), barrier island, dune, elevation, environment, geoscientificInformation, lidar, vertical uncertainty, Fewer tags East Sabine Lake Hydrologic Restoration (CS-32): 2015 land-water classification The Louisiana State Legislature created 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 Sabine Lake Hydrologic Restoration (CS-32) project for 2015. 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: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: CS-32, CWPPRA, Geography, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, All tags... Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aerial photography, conservation, digital elevation models, ecosystem monitoring, geographic information systems, image collections, image mosaics, remote sensing, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program – 2008-2016 habitat change, Modern Delta Region The Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program was developed by Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and is implemented as a component of the System Wide Assessment and Monitoring Program (SWAMP). The program uses both historical data and contemporary data collections to assess and monitor changes in the aerial and subaqueous extent of islands, habitat types, sediment texture and geotechnical properties, environmental processes, and vegetation composition. Examples of BICM datasets include still and video aerial photography for documenting shoreline changes, shoreline positions, habitat mapping, land change analyses, light detection and ranging (lidar) surveys for topographic... Tags: Early Lafourche Delta Region, Geography, Geomorphology, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, All tags... Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, Remote Sensing, St. Mary Parish, Terrebonne Parish, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), barrier islands, barrier vegetation, beach, coastal wetlands, dune, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat change, habitat map, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, mangrove, marsh, remote sensing, scrub/shrub, Fewer tags Seagrass habitat suitability modeling for the Alabama Barrier Island restoration assessment at Dauphin Island A barrier island seagrass habitat suitability index (HSI) model was developed for the Alabama barrier island restoration assessment at Dauphin Island. Shoal grass (Halodule wrightii) was selected as the representative species for seagrass community near Dauphin Island waters since H. wrightii is the dominant species (>62%) of seagrass communities in this area due to its rapid growth and tolerance to a wide range of salinity. Five water quality and morphological variables were selected and their relationships with habitat suitability were developed and incorporated into the seagrass HSI model for Dauphin Island restoration assessment: 1) mean salinity during the summer growing season, 2) mean temperature during the... Tags: Aquatic Biology, Dauphin Island, Mobile, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... barrier island, environment, farming, habitat suitability index, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, seagrass, Fewer tags Bayou Dupont Marsh and Ridge Creation (BA-48): 2016 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 Marsh and Ridge Creation (BA-48) project for 2016. 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: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: BA-48, CWPPRA, Ecology, Geography, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Land Use Change, Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aerial photography, conservation, digital elevation models, ecosystem monitoring, geographic information systems, image collections, image mosaics, remote sensing, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Remotely-sensed observations of restoration sites of the riparian corridor of the Colorado River Delta in Mexico, 2013-2022 These data were compiled for evaluating plant water use, or river-reach level evapotranspiration (ET) data, in the riparian corridor of the Colorado River delta as specified under Minute 319 of the 1944 Water Treaty. Additionally, these data were compiled for evaluating restoration-level data in Reach 2 and Reach 4, as specified under Minute 323 of the 1944 Water Treaty. Objectives of our study were to measure the peak growing season evapotranspiration (ET) for the average of months in summer-fall (May to October) for the seven reaches, for the full riparian corridor, and for four restoration sites, from 2013 through 2022. The seven reach areas from the Northerly International Boundary (NIB) to the end of the delta... Tags: 1944 Water Treaty, Arizona, Botany, Colorado River, Colorado River delta, All tags... Ecology, Geography, Gulf of California, Information Sciences, International Boundary, Land Use Change, Landsat images, Landsat time series, Lower Colorado River delta, Mexico, Mexico, Minute 319, Minute 323, Morelos Dam, Remote Sensing, San Luis, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Yuma, actual ET (ETa) in mm/day, average growing season daily ET, biogeography, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data release, ecosystem monitoring, enhanced vegetation index 2 (EVI2), environment, evapotranspiration, evapotranspiration (ET) data, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, greenness (EVI2), image collections, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, land use change, meteorological station data, peak growing season evapotranspiration, peak-season daily water use, plant water use, precipitation (atmospheric), remediation, remote sensing, restoration, riparian community, riparian corridor, riparian ecosystem, riparian vegetation, riparian woodland ecosystem, riparian zones, river ecosystems, seaonal mean difference, time series datasets, vegetation, vegetation greeness index (EVI2), water use, water use, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Inter-vessel comparison of hydroacoustic fish density in central Lake Erie, 2014 Hydroacoustic estimates of fish density are used for fisheries management in central Lake Erie. Data are sometimes collected from multiple vessels, raising the question of comparability of data collected among vessels. Hydroacoustic data were collected along three cross-lake transects in central Lake Erie in July, 2014 from three different vessels using similar equipment. Several variables derived from hydroacoustic data and fish densities calculated from those variables were compared between the standard vessel used typically for hydroacoustic data collection and two other vessels used occasionally. The data used in those analyses are presented here. Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Great Lakes, Lake Erie, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... aquatic biology, biota, field inventory and monitoring, fishery management, multibeam sonar, transect sampling, Fewer tags Historic and future trends in exotic annual grass (%) cover in the western US (1985 to 2019 and 2025 to 2040) Exotic annual grasses [EAG] are one of the most damaging biological stressors in western North America. Despite numerous environmental and societal impacts associated with EAG there remains a need to enhance regional monitoring capabilities to better guide management and conservation efforts. Here we provide estimates of historic and potential future trends in EAG abundance that were developed using linear trend analysis and machine learning techniques at a 30-m spatial resolution. Specifically, these data represent historic (1985 to 2019) and potential future (2025-2040) rates of exotic annual grass change as estimated using Theil-Sen regression and a process-constrained, random forest model assuming only changes... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Ecology, Exotic annual grasses, cheatgrass, remote sensing, Exotic annual grasses, cheatgrass, remote sensing, Land Use Change, Remote Sensing, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, Fewer tags Modelled long-term wildfire occurrence probabilities in sagebrush-dominated ecosystems in the western US (1985 to 2019) Exotic annual grasses are one of the most damaging biological stressors in western North America and increase the susceptibility of landscapes to wildfire occurrence. Here we couple estimates of long-term rangeland component fractions (e.g. exotic annual grasses) with remote sensing, climate data, and machine learning techniques to estimate the long-term (1985 to 2019) probability of wildfire occurrence (30-m spatial resolution) in sagebrush-dominated landscapes of the western United States. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Ecology, Exotic annual grasses, cheatgrass, remote sensing, wildfire, Land Use Change, Remote Sensing, Remote sensing, wildfire occurrence, wildfire risk, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 5 ... 13 »