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Urbanization Impacts on Evapotranspiration Across Various Spatio-temporal Scales The data in this release describe various aspects of the impacts of urbanization on evapotranspiration at local to global spatial scales. This data release is associated with the publication of these results in a concurrent journal article. Analyses in the journal article included comparisons between urban and non-urban ET in a variety of climate settings and spatial scales. Urbanization has been shown to locally increase the nighttime temperatures creating urban heat islands, which partly arise due to evapotranspiration (ET) reduction. It is unclear how the direction and magnitude of the change in local ET due to urbanization varies globally across different climatic regimes. This knowledge gap is critical, both... Categories: Data; Tags: Land Use Change, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), World, evapotranspiration, All tags... urbanization, Fewer tags Literature review data of articles pertaining to landscape perceptions This data file contains a list of journal articles found in a recent search for research relevant to studying landscape perceptions. We collected all peer reviewed academic articles containing the keywords “landscape” and “perception” on the web of science resulting in 3497 records. To eliminate studies not directly addressing landscape perception we filtered out medical journal articles (n=1211). We also chose to limit our assessment to journals directly concerned with the landscape perception topic, omitting those with fewer than 5 articles pertaining to these keywords (n=1044). The abstract and title of the remaining articles (n=1242) were further scanned to discard irrelevant studies and evaluate specific methods... Categories: Data; Tags: Geography, Land Use Change, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), World, land cover, All tags... land use, social sciences, Fewer tags Exotic and perennial grass cover for pastures in the Soda Fire (2016) The point data file ("Soda Fire Point and Pasture Data (2016).Point Data.csv") includes 2016 vegetative cover values of exotic annual grass and perennial grass measured within three different types of plots for 75 pastures in the Soda Fire, which burned in 2015: 6m² plot using a grid-point intercept photo software, SamplePoint (Booth et al. 2006), 1m² quadrat using an unguided rapid ocular estimate in the field, 531m² circular plot using an unguided rapid ocular estimate in the field. Smaller plots were nested within larger plots. The pasture data file ("Soda Fire Point and Pasture Data (2016).Pasture Data.csv") includes pasture level metrics of area, elevation, precipitation, slope, heatload, soils, and herbicide... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Idaho, Idaho BLM, Land Use Change, All tags... Malheur County, Oregon, Owyhee County, Soda Wildfire, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, exotic annual grass, fires, grid point intercept, perennial grass, sample size, vegetation, vegetation cover, Fewer tags Saginaw Bay Restoration Assessment Composite Model 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. 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 Data used to prioritize the selection of river basins for intensive monitoring and assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed a systematic, quantitative approach to prioritize candidate basins that can support the assessment and forecasting objectives of the major USGS water science programs. Candidate basins were the level-4 hydrologic units (HUC4) with some of the smaller HUC4s being combined (hereafter referred to as modified HUC4 basins). Candidate basins for the contiguous United States (CONUS) were grouped into 18 hydrologic regions. Thirty-three geospatial variables representing land use, climate change, water use, water-balance components, streamflow alteration, fire risk, and ecosystem sensitivity were initially considered to assist in ranking candidate basins for study. The two highest... Categories: Data; Tags: Climatology, Ecology, Hydrology, Integrated Water Science Basins, Land Use Change, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Resources, boundaries, climate change, ecosystem monitoring, environment, environmental assessment, fire risk, forecasting, habitat alteration and disturbance, hydrologic region, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, river basin, water budget, water use, Fewer tags National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2001 Land Cover Conterminous United States Disclaimer: this is an historic version of NLCD provided for research and citation purposes. Different release dates of NLCD cannot be used with other release dates for correct analysis. Each release of NLCD generates a complete set of directly comparable products. These products must be used together for correct analysis. You can find the latest suite of synced products at www.mrlc.gov. The National Land Cover Database 2001 land cover layer for mapping zones 01-66 was produced through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium. The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of federal agencies (www.mrlc.gov), consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Base Maps, Coastal Zone, Earth Cover, GIS, Land Cover, All tags... Land Use Change, U.S., U.S. Geological Survey, US, US West Coast, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, WA, Washington, digital spatial data, imagery, zone 01, Fewer tags National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2011 Land Cover Conterminous United States Disclaimer: this is an historic version of NLCD provided for research and citation purposes. Different release dates of NLCD cannot be used with other release dates for correct analysis. Each release of NLCD generates a complete set of directly comparable products. These products must be used together for correct analysis. You can find the latest suite of synced products at www.mrlc.gov. The National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD2011) USFS percent tree canopy product was produced through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium (www.mrlc.gov). The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of federal agencies, consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey, the National... Tags: Continuous, Digital Spatial Data, GIS, Land Use Change, Percent Tree Canopy, All tags... Remote Sensing, Tree Canopy Cover, U.S., U.S. Forest Service, U.S.A., US, USA, USFS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, United States of America, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags Data for climate-related variation in plant peak biomass and growth phenology across Pacific Northwest tidal marshes This data release is comprised of tidal marsh biomass data and spatial predictions of peak biomass and Julian day of peak biomass using data from the Landsat archive. Aboveground biomass dry weight of mixed-species plots (25x50 cm) at a tidal marsh in Willapa Bay, Washington were used to establish a relationship between biomass and tasseled cap greeness (TCG). The julian day of annual peak greenness and the value of annual peak greenness for 32 years at Bandon National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), Grays Harbor NWR, and Nisqually NWR was calculated by fitting a Gaussian function to the TCG values for a given year. The value of each 30 meter pixel is the Julian day of maximum predicted TCG or the maximum predicted TCG.... Categories: Data; Tags: Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge, Billy Frank Jr Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Coos County, Ecology, Grays Harbor County, All tags... Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge, Information Sciences, Land Use Change, Remote Sensing, Thurston County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Willapa Bay, Washington, annual peak greenness, biomass, environment, inlandWaters, landsat, location, plant production, remote sensing, tasseled cap greenness, tidal marsh, Fewer tags Results of Hydrologic Monitoring on Landslide-prone Coastal Bluffs near Mukilteo, Washington A hydrologic monitoring network was installed to investigate landslide hazards affecting the railway corridor along the eastern shore of Puget Sound between Seattle and Everett, near Mukilteo, Washington. During the summer of 2015, the U.S. Geological Survey installed instrumentation at four sites to measure rainfall and air temperature every 15 minutes. Two of the four sites are installed on contrasting coastal bluffs, one landslide scarred and one vegetated. At these two sites, in addition to rainfall and air temperature, volumetric water content, pore pressure, soil suction, soil temperature (via hydrologic instrumentation), and barometric pressure were measured every 15 minutes. The instrumentation was designed... Categories: Data; Tags: GHSC, Geomorphology, Hydrogeology, LHP, Land Use Change, All tags... Landslide Hazards Program, Mukilteo, Puget Sound, Seattle, Snohomish County, Soil Sciences, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Washington, coastal erosion, earth science, hazard, landslide, northwest, Fewer tags Mediterranean California’s water use future under multiple scenarios of developed and agricultural land use change This dataset contains .csv and .tif image files in support of the conclusions published in "Mediterranean California’s water use future under multiple scenarios of developed and agricultural land use change" in the journal PLOS One. We used the USGS's LUCAS model to examine a broad suite of spatially explicit future land use scenarios and their associated county-level water use demand, including the historical (1992-2011) and projected periods (2012-2062) across 40 Monte Carlo simulations.We examined a range of potential water demand futures sampled from a 20-year record of historical (1992-2012) data to develop a suite of potential future land change scenarios from 2012-2062. These scenario simulations include... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, California, Central Valley, LUCAS model, Land Use Change, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, land use and land cover change, modeling, water, water demand, Fewer tags Data - Forest harvest patterns on private lands in the Cascade Mountains, Washington, USA Forests in Washington State generate substantial economic revenue from commercial timber harvesting on private lands. To investigate the rates, causes, and spatial and temporal patterns of forest harvest on private tracts throughout the central Cascade Mountain area, we relied on a new generation of annual land-use/land-cover (LULC) products created from the application of the Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) algorithm to Landsat satellite imagery collected from 1985 to 2014. We calculated metrics of landscape pattern using patches of intact and harvested forest patches identified in each annual layer to identify changes throughout the time series. Patch dynamics revealed four distinct eras... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cascade Mountains, Cascade Range, Forestry, Geography, LCMAP; CCDC; land use; land cover; land change; forest harvest, All tags... Land Use Change, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Washington (state), forest ecosystems, forest resources, geoscientificInformation, image collections AND multispectral imaging, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags Western Lake Erie Restoration Assessment Dikes 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. 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 Wetland Habitat Structure Maps for the Central Valley of California 2013-2017 We produced a time series of maps of habitat structure within wetlands of the Central Valley of California. The structure of open water and tall emergent vegetation, such as Typha spp. and Schoenoplectus spp., is critical for migratory birds. Through field observation and digitization of high resolution imagery we identified the locations of tall emergent vegetation, water, and other land cover. Using a random forest classification, we classified multispectral Landsat 8 imagery 2013-2017. We used images from the fall when most wetlands are flooded and the summer to separate trees and tall emergent vegetation. The final maps show the distribution and extent of tall emergent vegetation within wetlands. Final time... Tags: California, Central Valley, Central Valley of California, Ecology, Emergent Vegetation, All tags... Geography, LANDSAT, LANDSAT 8, Land Use Change, Landscape, Planet, Remote Sensing, Sacramento, San Joaquin, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wetlands, biota, birds, environment, habitats, image collections, migratory birds, multispectral imaging, remote sensing, satellite imagery, shore birds, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Keamuku Maneuver Area soil nutrient and moisture and foliar nutrient data, 2014 This data release includes data and metadata on soil total (organic and inorganic) carbon, total nitrogen, organic matter, moisture and foliar carbon and nitrogen of dominant plants within Keamuku Maneuver Area (KMA) on Hawaii Island. Broadly, this study looked at how microtopography and biotic interactions influence post-disturbance recovery and native planting success in native shrub-dominated and non-native, invasive grass-dominated dryland habitats. Categories: Data; Tags: Hawaii, Hawaii Island, Keamuku Maneuver Area, avian diet, botany, All tags... ecology, exotic grass, forest restoration, land use change, plant competition, plant ecology, seed limitation, seedling recruitment, tropical forest dynamics, Fewer tags Keamuku Maneuver Area random plot vegetation, geology, coordinates 2013 This data release includes data and metadata on 155 vegetation plots that were random stratified across different substrate ages and geological features at Keamuku Maneuver Area (KMA) on Hawaii Island in order to capture vegetation patterns across the landscape in relation to geology and climate. This data set also includes coordinates for the plots and geological data. This data was also used to determine dominant vegetation types across KMA. Categories: Data; Tags: Hawaii, Hawaii Island, Keamuku Maneuver Area, avian diet, botany, All tags... ecology, exotic grass, forest restoration, land use change, plant competition, plant ecology, seed limitation, seedling recruitment, tropical forest dynamics, Fewer tags Keamuku Maneuver Area post-disturbance shrub counts, 2014-2016 This data release includes data and metadata on post-disturbance native shrub recruitment and survival within recovering vegetation after disturbance for sites within Keamuku Maneuver Area on Hawaii Island. This study looked at how microtopography and biotic interactions influence post-disturbance recovery in native shrub-dominated and non-native, invasive grass-dominated dryland habitats. Categories: Data; Tags: Hawaii, Hawaii Island, Keamuku Maneuver Area, avian diet, botany, All tags... ecology, exotic grass, forest restoration, land use change, plant competition, plant ecology, seed limitation, seedling recruitment, tropical forest dynamics, Fewer tags Nitrogen cycling rates from sagebrush and cheatgrass-invaded soils in the Northern Great Basin (2008) This dataset contains data supporting the paper: DeCrappeo, N.M., DeLorenze, E.J., Giguere, A.T., Pyke, D.A., and Bottomley, P.J. Fungal and bacterial contributions to nitrogen cycling in cheatgrass-invaded and uninvaded native sagebrush soils of the western USA (accepted at the journal Plant and Soil). The purpose of the study was to evaluate the relative contributions of soil bacteria and fungi to inorganic nitrogen (N) cycling in sagebrush and cheatgrass-invaded soils using a 15N isotope dilution experiment. Soils were collected from sagebrush and cheatgrass rhizospheres at six paired sites in southwest Idaho and southeast Oregon. In order to partition the contribution of each microbial group to N cycling, soils... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, Great Basin, Idaho, Land Use Change, Oregon, All tags... Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biogeochemical cycling, biota, ecological processes, geoscientificInformation, invasive species, isotopic analysis, shrubland ecosystems, soil sciences, Fewer tags Projecting community changes in hazard exposure to support long-term risk reduction: a case study of tsunami hazards in the U.S. Pacific Northwest Tsunamis have the potential to cause considerable damage to communities along the U.S. Pacific Northwest coastline. As coastal communities expand over time, the potential societal impact of tsunami inundation changes. To understand how community exposure to tsunami hazards may change in coming decades, we projected future development (i.e. urban, residential, and rural), households, and residents over a 50-year period (2011-2061) along the Washington, Oregon, and northern California coasts. We created a spatially explicit, land use/land cover, state-and-transition simulation model to project future developed land use based on historical development trends. We then compared our development projection results to tsunami-hazard... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Hazards, Land Use Change, Pacific Northwest, Tsunamis, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC) Accuracy of Rapid Crop Cover Maps of Conterminous United States for 2008 - 2016 Spatially accurate annual crop cover maps are an important component to various planning and research applications; however, the importance of these maps varies significantly with the timing of their availability. Utilizing a previously developed crop classification model (CCM), which was used to generate historical annual crop cover maps (classifying nine major crops: corn, cotton, sorghum, soybeans, spring wheat, winter wheat, alfalfa, other hay/non alfalfa, fallow/idle cropland, and ‘other’ as one class for remaining crops), we hypothesized that such crop cover maps could be generated in near real time (NRT). The CCM was trained on 14 temporal and 15 static geospatial datasets, known as predictor variables, and... Tags: Land Use Change, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, conus, crop cover mapping, All tags... modelling, near real time, Fewer tags USGS Dam Removal Science Database v4.0 This database is the result of an extensive literature search aimed at identifying documents relevant to the emerging field of dam removal science. In total the database contains 296 citations that contain empirical monitoring information associated with 207 different dam removals across the United States and abroad. Data includes publications through 2020 and supplemented with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams database, U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System and aerial photos to estimate locations when coordinates were not provided. Publications were located using the Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Australia, Austria, Canada, Connectivity, Dam Removal, All tags... Ecology, Ecosystems, Energy Resources, Environmental Health, Geomorphology, Hydrologic alteration, Japan, Korea, Land Use Change, Lentic, Lotic, Meta-Analysis, NFHP Cooperator, NoVisual, Norway, Spain, Spatial Data, Sweden, Taiwan, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wales, Water, Water Quality, Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 5 »