Saginaw Bay Restoration Assessment Composite Model (2016)

Well-established conservation planning principles and techniques framed by geodesign were used to assess the restorability of areas that historically supported coastal wetlands along the U.S. shore of Saginaw Bay. The resulting analysis supported planning efforts to identify, prioritize, and track wetland restoration opportunity and investment in the region. To accomplish this, publicly available data, criteria derived from the regional managers and local stakeholders, and geospatial analysis were used to form an ecological model for spatial prioritization. These data include parameter inputs from external sources current to 2016. For an updated data set, including parameter inputs up to 2023, please see: Hopkins,...

Types: Citation; Tags: Great Lakes, LIDAR, Saginaw Bay, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, All tags... coastal processes, decision support methods, digital elevation models, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Western Lake Erie Restoration Assessment Dikes (2016)

This dataset is the output of a python script/ArcGIS model that identifes dikes as having a difference in elevation above a certain threshold. If the elevation difference was below a certain threshold the area was not considered a dike; however, if the difference in elevation between two points was significantly high then the area was marked as a dike. Areas continuous with eachother were considered part of the same dike. Post processing occured. Users examined the data output, comparing the proposed dike locations to aerial imagery, flowline data, and the DEM. Dikes that appeared to be false positives were deleted from the data set. These data include parameter inputs from external sources current to 2016. For...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Great Lakes, LIDAR, Lake Erie, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, All tags... coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment Dikes (2016)

This dataset is the output of a python script/ArcGIS model that identifes dikes as having a difference in elevation above a certain threshold. If the elevation difference was below a certain threshold the area was not considered a dike; however, if the difference in elevation between two points was significantly high then the area was marked as a dike. Areas continuous with eachother were considered part of the same dike. Post processing occured. Users examined the data output, comparing the proposed dike locations to aerial imagery, flowline data, and the DEM. Dikes that appeared to be false positives were deleted from the data set. These data include parameter inputs from external sources current to 2016. For...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Detroit River, Great Lakes, LIDAR, Lake St. Clair, St. Clair River, All tags... biogeography, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Western Lake Erie Restoration Assessment Degree Flowlines (2016)

This represents the flowline network in Western Lale Erie Restoration Assessment (WLERA). It is attributed with the number of disconnections between the reach and the connecting river system. These data will help identify the condition of hydrologic separation between potential restoration areas and the connecting river system. Low numbers represent fewer disconnections such as culverts between the reach and the rivers requiring no flow network modification to restore the area. These data include parameter inputs from external sources current to 2016. For an updated data set, including parameter inputs up to 2023, please see: Jaenicke, M.E., Hopkins, A.L., Kowalski, K.P., Bozimowski, A.A., and Sanocki, C.A., 2024,...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Artificial Path, Canal / Ditch, FWHydrography, Great Lakes, Hydrography, All tags... LIDAR, Lake / Pond, Lake Erie, Reach Code, Reservoir, Spring / Seep, Stream / River, Swamp / Marsh, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment Composite Model (2016)

Well-established conservation planning principles and techniques framed by geodesign were used to assess the restorability of areas that historically supported coastal wetlands along the U.S. shore of the connecting rivers (Detroit River and St. Clair River). The resulting analysis supported planning efforts to identify, prioritize, and track wetland restoration opportunity and investment in the region. To accomplish this, publicly available data, criteria derived from the regional managers and local stakeholders, and geospatial analysis were used to form an ecological model for spatial prioritization. These data include parameter inputs from external sources current to 2016. For an updated data set, including...

Types: Citation; Tags: Detroit River, Great Lakes, LIDAR, Lake St. Clair, St. Clair River, All tags... biogeography, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, decision support methods, digital elevation models, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of Africa

This geodatabase reflects the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity supply chains by updating and publishing the georeferenced locations of mineral commodity production and processing facilities, mineral exploration and development sites, and mineral commodity exporting ports in Africa. The geodatabase and geospatial data layers serve to create a new geographic information product in the form of a geospatial portable document format (PDF) map. The geodatabase contains data layers from USGS, foreign governmental, and open-source sources as follows: (1) mineral production and processing facilities, (2) mineral exploration...

Tags: Africa, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, All tags... Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Cote D'Ivoire, Data Release, Djibouti, Economic Geology, Egypt, Electric Power, Electric Transmission Lines, Energy Resources, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, The, Geography, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Information Sciences, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mineral Commodities, Mineral Commodity, Mineral Exploration, Mineral Resources, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Petroleum Product Pipelines, Pipelines, Ports, Potash Deposits, Power Generating Facilities, Railroads, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Transmission Lines, Tunisia, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, calcium, chromium, coal, coal resources, cobalt, copper, critical minerals, culture and demographics, data integration, earth sciences, economic geology, economy, energy resources, environment, external research support, geographic information systems, geography, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, geothermal resources, gold, inlandWaters, interagency programs, interdisciplinary programs, international programs, iridium, iron, lead, lithium, location, magnesium, manganese, materials flow (commodities), metallic mineral resources, mineral deposits, mineral resources, mining and quarrying, natural gas resources, natural resource exploration, natural resource extraction, natural resources, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, nonmetallic mineral resources, oil resources, palladium, petroleum, phosphorus, platinum, platinum-group elements, potassium, rare earth elements, rhodium, ruthenium, selenium, silicon, silver, society, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, transportation, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment Degree Flowlines (2016)

This represents the flowline network in Connecting River Systems Restoration Assessment (CRSRA). It is attributed with the number of disconnections between the reach and the connecting river system. These data will help identify the condition of hydrologic separation between potential restoration areas and the connecting river system. Low numbers represent fewer disconnections such as culverts between the reach and the rivers requiring no flow network modification to restore the area. These data include parameter inputs from external sources current to 2016. For an updated data set, including parameter inputs up to 2023, please see: Hopkins, A.L., Jaenicke, M.E., Bozimowski, A.A., Kowalski, K.P., and Sanocki,...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Artificial Path, Canal / Ditch, Detroit River, FWHydrography, Great Lakes, All tags... Hydrography, LIDAR, Lake / Pond, Lake St. Clair, Reach Code, Reservoir, Spring / Seep, St. Clair River, Stream / River, Swamp / Marsh, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Saginaw Bay Restoration Assessment Degree Flowlines (2016)

This represents the flowline network in Sagina Bay Restoration Assessment (SBRA). It is attributed with the number of disconnections between the reach and the connecting river system. These data will help identify the condition of hydrologic separation between potential restoration areas and the connecting river system. Low numbers represent fewer disconnections such as culverts between the reach and the rivers requiring no flow network modification to restore the area. These data include parameter inputs from external sources current to 2016. For an updated data set, including parameter inputs up to 2023, please see: Jaenicke, M.E., Hopkins, A.L., Kowalski, K.P., Bozimowski, A.A., and Sanocki, C.A., 2024, Saginaw...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Artificial Path, Canal / Ditch, FWHydrography, Great Lakes, Hydrography, All tags... LIDAR, Lake / Pond, Reach Code, Reservoir, Saginaw Bay, Spring / Seep, Stream / River, Swamp / Marsh, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Saginaw Bay Restoration Assessment Dikes (2016)

This dataset is the output of a python script/ArcGIS model that identifes dikes as having a difference in elevation above a certain threshold. If the elevation difference was below a certain threshold the area was not considered a dike; however, if the difference in elevation between two points was significantly high then the area was marked as a dike. Areas continuous with eachother were considered part of the same dike. Post processing occured. Users examined the data output, comparing the proposed dike locations to aerial imagery, flowline data, and the DEM. Dikes that appeared to be false positives were deleted from the data set. These data include parameter inputs from external sources current to 2016. For...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Great Lakes, LIDAR, Saginaw Bay, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, All tags... coastal processes, connectivity, decision support methods, digital elevation models, dikes, drainage, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, restoration, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Western Lake Erie Restoration Assessment Composite Model (2016)

Well-established conservation planning principles and techniques framed by geodesign were used to assess the restorability of areas that historically supported coastal wetlands along the U.S. shore of western Lake Erie. The resulting analysis supported planning efforts to identify, prioritize, and track wetland restoration opportunity and investment in the region. To accomplish this, publicly available data, criteria derived from the regional managers and local stakeholders, and geospatial analysis were used to form an ecological model for spatial prioritization (Western Lake Erie Restoration Assessmente (WLERA)). Within the 192,618 ha study area that was bounded by the mouths of the Detroit River, MI to the north...

Types: Citation; Tags: Great Lakes, LIDAR, Lake Erie, biogeography, coastal ecosystems, All tags... coastal processes, decision support methods, digital elevation models, ecological processes, environmental assessment, estuarine ecosystems, estuarine processes, freshwater ecosystems, geodesign, geographic information systems, geography, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, habitats, hydrographic datasets, interagency programs, land use change, surface-water level, water resources, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

USGS Land Treatment Digital Library Data Release: A centralized archive for land treatment tabular and spatial data (ver. 7.0, September 2024), Treatment Frequency Rasters

Across the country, public land managers make hundreds of decisions each year that influence landscapes and ecosystems within the lands they manage. Many of these decisions involve vegetation manipulations known as land treatments. Land treatments include activities such as removal or alteration of plant biomass, seeding burned areas, and herbicide applications. Data on these land treatments historically have been stored at local offices and gathering information across large spatial areas was difficult. These valuable data needed to be centralized and stored for Federal agencies involved in land treatments because these data are useful to land managers for policy and management and to scientists for developing...

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nevada, New Mexico, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biological informatics, biota, data management, data preservation, database administration, digitization, ecosystem management, environment, geospatial datasets, information technology methods, interagency programs, map interfaces, natural resource management, reintroduction (organisms), remediation, shrubland ecosystems, web interface development, Fewer tags

USGS Land Treatment Digital Library Data Release: A centralized archive for land treatment tabular and spatial data (ver. 7.0, September 2024)

Across the country, public land managers make hundreds of decisions each year that influence landscapes and ecosystems within the lands they manage. Many of these decisions involve vegetation manipulations known as land treatments. Land treatments include activities such as removal or alteration of plant biomass, seeding burned areas, and herbicide applications. Data on these land treatments historically have been stored at local offices and gathering information across large spatial areas was difficult. These valuable data needed to be centralized and stored for Federal agencies involved in land treatments because these data are useful to land managers for policy and management and to scientists for developing...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nevada, New Mexico, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biological informatics, biota, data management, data preservation, database administration, digitization, ecosystem management, environment, geospatial datasets, information technology methods, interagency programs, map interfaces, natural resource management, reintroduction (organisms), remediation, shrubland ecosystems, web interface development, Fewer tags