Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2024

These datasets provide early estimates of 2024 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from April to late June. Typically, the EAG estimates are publicly released within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains five fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) Field Brome (Bromus arvensis); 4) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 5) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory,...

Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Field Brome, Great Basin, All tags... Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, Idaho, Kansas, Land Use Change, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, Remote Sensing, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Model Inputs: Midwest Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

This data release contains the climate change model inputs and Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model outputs from 360 HUC-8 watersheds in the Midwest United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin), that were generated using the HAWQS (Hydrologic and Water Quality System) platform (https://hawqs.tamu.edu). The summarized data for a watershed-based climate change vulnerability assessment for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is also provided, along with the R code used to summarize the raw outputs. Watershed-based Midwest Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Tool: https://rconnect.usgs.gov/CC_Vulnerabi

Tags: Aquatic Biology, Climatology, Information Sciences, Land Use Change, Limnology, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, Fewer tags

Data sets for: Status of Water Quality in Groundwater Resources Used for Drinking-Water Supply in the Southeastern San Joaquin Valley, 2013-2015 - California GAMA Priority Basin Project

This data release contains site information and potential explanatory factor data for 1,899 groundwater sites. These sites were used to assess groundwater quality in aquifers used for domestic and public drinking water supply in the southeastern San Joaquin Valley. The southeastern San Joaquin Valley (SESJV) study unit consists of five study areas whose boundaries are defined by the eponymous California Department of Water Resources groundwater subbasins of the San Joaquin Valley groundwater basin: Madera-Chowchilla, Kings, Kaweah, Tule, and Tulare Lake. The sites consist of 198 wells representing the domestic-supply aquifer and 1,701 wells representing the public-supply aquifer. The domestic-supply aquifer wells...

Categories: Data; Tags: Central Valley aquifer system, Fresno, Hydrology, Kings, Land Use Change, All tags... Madera, Soil Sciences, Tulare, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, domestic well water use, environment, geoscientificInformation, groundwater quality, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 4

The USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the nation's inventory of protected areas, including public land and voluntarily provided private protected areas, identified as an A-16 National Geospatial Data Asset in the Cadastre Theme ( https://ngda-cadastre-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/ ). The PAD-US is an ongoing project with several published versions of a spatial database including areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity, and other natural (including extraction), recreational, or cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The database was originally designed to support biodiversity assessments; however, its scope expanded in recent...

Categories: Data Release - In Progress; Tags: Agricultural Research Service, Alabama (AL), Alaska (AK), American Samoa (AS), Arizona (AZ), All tags... Arkansas (AR), Army Corps of Engineers, Biodiversity, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, California (CA), Census, Colorado (CO), Connecticut (CT), Conservation, Data integration, Delaware (DE), Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Federal Lands, Florida (FL), Forest Service, GAP Status Code, Gap Analysis, Geography, Georgia (GA), Governmental Units, Guam (GU), Hawaii (HI), IUCN Category, Idaho (ID), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Iowa (IA), Kansas (KS), Kentucky (KY), Land Manager, Land Ownership, Land Stewardship, Land Use Change, Land Use Change, Land Use and Land Cover, Local Government Lands, Louisiana (LA), Maine (ME), Mariana Islands (MP), Maryland (MD), Massachusetts (MA), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Montana (MT), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Park Service, Natural Resource Management, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Nebraska (NE), Nevada (NV), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), New Mexico (NM), New York (NY), North Carolina (NC), North Dakota (ND), Ohio (OH), Oklahoma (OK), Oregon (OR), Outdoor Recreation, Parks, Pennsylvania (PA), Private Lands, Protected Area, Protected Area, Protection Status, Public Access, Public Health, Public Lands, Public Open Space, Puerto Rico (PR), Rhode Island (RI), South Carolina (SC), South Dakota (SD), State Lands, Tennessee (TN), Tennessee Valley Authority, Texas (TX), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (UM), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, United States, United States Virgin Islands (VI), Utah (UT), Vermont (VT), Veterans Affairs, Virginia (VA), Washington (WA), West Virginia (WV), Wisconsin (WI), Wyoming (WY), Fewer tags

Northwest Turtle Bay Marsh Creation (BA-0125): 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 Northwest Turtle Bay Marsh Creation) 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 project...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: BA-0125, 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, farming, geographic information systems, image collections, image mosaics, remote sensing, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags