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UMRR LTRM 2020 LCU Mapping - Mississippi River Pool 11 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) program, through its Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRM) element, collected aerial imagery of the systemic Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) during the summer of 2020. A Land Cover/Land Use (LCU) spatial database was developed based on the 2020 aerial imagery, which adds a fourth systemic-wide database to the existing 1989, 2000, and 2010/11 LCU databases. While a crosswalk was used to update the 1989 LCU database (originally developed using a different classification system), the 2000, 2010/11, and 2020 LCU databases share the same classification, making them directly comparable from a classification standpoint. Furthermore, protocols... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Iowa, USGS-EMA-LOW-MR Landscape Ecology, USGS-EMA-LOW-PL Mississippi River, Wisconsin, aquatic vegetation, All tags... biota, ecology, floodplains, long-term ecological monitoring, maps and atlases, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetlands, Fewer tags Unvegetated to vegetated ratio at Thompsons Beach and Stone Harbor, New Jersey from 2014 to 2018 In 2012, Hurricane Sandy struck the Northeastern US causing devastation among coastal ecosystems. Post-hurricane marsh restoration efforts have included sediment deposition, planting of vegetation, and restoring tidal hydrology. The work presented here is part of a larger project funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to monitor the post-restoration ecological resilience of coastal ecosystems in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The U.S. Geological Survey Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center made in-situ observations during 2018-2019 and 2022-2023 at two sites: Thompsons Beach, NJ and Stone Harbor, NJ. Marsh creek hydrodynamics and water quality including currents, waves, water levels, water... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic, Hurricane Sandy, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, New Jersey, Stone Harbor, All tags... Thompsons Beach, UVVR, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh resilience, oceans, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Pre-restoration vegetation data, Little Saint Francis River chat pile site, Missouri, USA, 2017 and 2018 This data set includes geospatial data and tables providing location, environmental, and vegetation data collected in 2017 and 2018 at the Little Saint Francis River (LSFR) chat pile restoration site, Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri. Restoration actions are being implemeneted as part of the settlement for the Madison County Mines Superfund site to compensate the public for losses of natural resources and the services they provide as part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District case. Data were collected prior to and during the early stages of restoration actions to restore bottomland forest habitat, reduce invasive plant species abundance, and improve... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Fredericktown, Little Saint Francis River, Madison County, Madison County Mines Superfund Site, Missouri, All tags... Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, contamination, environment, hydrology, restoration, soils, vegetation, Fewer tags Seabeach Amaranth Presence-Absence Data, Assateague Island National Seashore, 2010 Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for developing approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given the magnitude of the threat posed by sea-level rise, and the urgency to better understand it, there is an increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands. To address this problem, scientists in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology program are developing Bayesian networks as a tool to evaluate and to forecast the effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island geomorphology, and habitat availability for species such as the piping plover (Charadrius melodus)... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assateague Island, Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assateague Island National Seashore, Atlantic Ocean, All tags... Barrier Island, Bayesian Network, CMHRP, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Coastal Erosion, Coastal Habitat, Coastal Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Coastal processes, Delmarva Peninsula, Erosion, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, MD, MHW, Maryland, Mean High Water, North America, Probability, Sea Level Rise, Sea-level change, Seabeach amaranth, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, VA, Virginia, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, environment, erosion, geographic information systems, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, hazards, hazards, land use and land cover, sea-level change, transect sampling, vegetation, Fewer tags Seabeach Amaranth Presence-Absence Data, Assateague Island National Seashore, 2014 Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for developing approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given the magnitude of the threat posed by sea-level rise, and the urgency to better understand it, there is an increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands. To address this problem, scientists in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology program are developing Bayesian networks as a tool to evaluate and to forecast the effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island geomorphology, and habitat availability for species such as the piping plover (Charadrius melodus)... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assateague Island, Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assateague Island National Seashore, Atlantic Ocean, All tags... Barrier Island, Bayesian Network, CMHRP, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Coastal Erosion, Coastal Habitat, Coastal Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Coastal processes, Delmarva Peninsula, Erosion, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, MD, MHW, Maryland, Mean High Water, North America, Probability, Sea Level Rise, Sea-level change, Seabeach amaranth, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, VA, Virginia, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, environment, erosion, geographic information systems, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, hazards, hazards, land use and land cover, sea-level change, transect sampling, vegetation, Fewer tags Seabeach Amaranth Presence-Absence Data, Assateague Island National Seashore, 2008 Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for developing approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given the magnitude of the threat posed by sea-level rise, and the urgency to better understand it, there is an increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands. To address this problem, scientists in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology program are developing Bayesian networks as a tool to evaluate and to forecast the effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island geomorphology, and habitat availability for species such as the piping plover (Charadrius melodus)... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assateague Island, Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assateague Island National Seashore, Atlantic Ocean, All tags... Barrier Island, Bayesian Network, CMHRP, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Coastal Erosion, Coastal Habitat, Coastal Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Coastal processes, Delmarva Peninsula, Erosion, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, MD, MHW, Maryland, Mean High Water, North America, Probability, Sea Level Rise, Sea-level change, Seabeach amaranth, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, VA, Virginia, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, environment, erosion, geographic information systems, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, hazards, hazards, land use and land cover, sea-level change, transect sampling, vegetation, 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 Random forest classification data developed from multitemporal Landsat 8 spectral data and phenology metrics for a subregion in Sonoran and Mojave Deserts, April 2013 – December 2020 These data were compiled for the creation of a continuous, transboundary land cover map of Bird Conservation Region 33, Sonoran and Mojave Deserts (BCR 33). Objective(s) of our study were to, 1) develop a machine learning (ML) algorithm trained to classify vegetation land cover using remote sensing spectral data and phenology metrics from 2013-2020, over a large subregion of the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts BCR, 2) Calibrate, validate, and refine the final ML-derived vegetation map using a collection of openly sourced remote sensing and ground-based ancillary data, images, and limited fieldwork, and 3) Harmonize a new transboundary classification system by expanding existing land cover mapping resources from the United... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, Baja California, Botany, California, Ecology, All tags... Forestry, Geography, Hermosillo, Information Sciences, Landsat images, Mexico, Mojave Desert, Phoenix, Remote Sensing, Sonora, Sonoran Desert, Southwest, US-Mexico Transboundary region, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, artificial intelligence, biogeography, biota, classification, conservation, data release, desert ecosystems, ecosystem management, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, land use and land cover, machine learning, modeling, natural resource management, phenology, phenology metrics, random forest model, remote sensing, remote sensing spectral data, time series datasets, transboundary, vegetation, Fewer tags Lifespan of marsh units in Maine salt marshes This data release contains coastal wetland synthesis products for the state of Maine. Metrics for resiliency, including the unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR), marsh elevation, tidal range, and lifespan, are calculated for smaller units delineated from a digital elevation model, providing the spatial variability of physical factors that influence wetland health. The U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands with the intent of providing federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Acadia National Park, Maine, United States, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, All tags... elevation, environment, estuarine processes, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, lifespan, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, sea-level change, sediment transport, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Mean tidal range of marsh units in Maine salt marshes This data release contains coastal wetland synthesis products for the state of Maine. Metrics for resiliency, including the unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR), marsh elevation, tidal range, and lifespan, are calculated for smaller units delineated from a digital elevation model, providing the spatial variability of physical factors that influence wetland health. The U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands with the intent of providing federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Acadia National Park, Maine, United States, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, All tags... environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, tidal range, tides (oceanic), vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Mean tidal range of marsh units in Connecticut salt marshes This data release contains coastal wetland synthesis products for the state of Connecticut. Metrics for resiliency, including the unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR), marsh elevation, tidal range, wave power, and exposure potential to environmental health stressors are calculated for smaller units delineated from a digital elevation model, providing the spatial variability of physical factors that influence wetland health. The U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands with the intent of providing federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Connecticut, Long Island Sound, United States, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, All tags... environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, tidal range, tides (oceanic), vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Lifespan of marsh units in New York salt marshes Lifespan of salt marshes in New York are calculated using conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018) and Welk and others (2019, 2020a, 2020b, 2020c). The lifespan calculation is based on estimated sediment supply and sea-level rise (SLR) predictions after Ganju and others (2020). Sea level predictions are local estimates which correspond to the 0.3, 0.5, and 1.0 meter increase in Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) scenarios by 2100 from Sweet and others (2022). The U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic, Long Island Sound, New York, United States, coastal ecosystems, All tags... coastal processes, elevation, environment, estuarine processes, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, lifespan, marsh health, none, oceans, salt marsh, sea-level change, sediment transport, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Agricultural Land in the Western United States Agricultural land cover for the western United States. This dataset was developed from Sagestitch, the Eastern Washington Shrubsteppe Mapping Project, and several state level GAP products (AZ, CA, NM, OR, and WA). Categories: Data, pre-SM502.8; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Land Use Change, All tags... Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Washington, Western United States, Wyoming, agricultural land, agriculture, biota, cropland, environment, farmland, land use and land cover, vegetation, Fewer tags Conceptual marsh units of Maine salt marshes This data release contains coastal wetland synthesis products for the state of Maine. Metrics for resiliency, including the unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR), marsh elevation, tidal range, and lifespan, are calculated for smaller units delineated from a digital elevation model, providing the spatial variability of physical factors that influence wetland health. The U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands with the intent of providing federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For this purpose, the response and resilience of coastal wetlands... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Acadia National Park, Maine, United States, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, All tags... environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Unvegetated to vegetated ratio of marsh units in Connecticut salt marshes This data release contains coastal wetland synthesis products for the state of Connecticut. Metrics for resiliency, including the unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR), marsh elevation, tidal range, wave power, and exposure potential to environmental health stressors are calculated for smaller units delineated from a digital elevation model, providing the spatial variability of physical factors that influence wetland health. The U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands with the intent of providing federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Connecticut, Long Island Sound, UVVR, United States, coastal ecosystems, All tags... coastal processes, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Conceptual marsh units of Connecticut salt marshes This data release contains coastal wetland synthesis products for the state of Connecticut. Metrics for resiliency, including the unvegetated to vegetated ratio (UVVR), marsh elevation, tidal range, wave power, and exposure potential to environmental health stressors are calculated for smaller units delineated from a digital elevation model, providing the spatial variability of physical factors that influence wetland health. The U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands with the intent of providing federal, state, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem service potential of these wetlands. For... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Connecticut, Long Island Sound, United States, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, All tags... environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Assateague Island Seabeach Amaranth Survey Data — 2001 to 2018 Seabeach amaranth (Amaranthus pumilus) is a plant species that was once prevalent on beaches of the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast but is now listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For much of the 20th century, seabeach amaranth was absent from the mid-Atlantic coast and thought to be extinct, presumably as a result of increased development and recreational pressure. One region where there has been an effort to restore the seabeach amaranth population is Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS), a National Park Service land holding located along the coasts of Maryland and Virginia. Here, the Natural Resources staff at ASIS planted seabeach amaranth cultivars for three growing seasons from 1999... Categories: Data, Data Release - In Progress; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assateague Island, Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assateague Island National Seashore, Atlantic Ocean, All tags... Barrier Island, Beaches, Botany, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Coastal Habitat, Coastal Plants, Delmarva Peninsula, Ecology, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, Grazing, Land Use Change, MD, Maryland, National Park Service, Seabeach amaranth, VA, Virginia, Wildlife Biology, biota, environment, field activity logs, field inventory and monitoring, geoscientificInformation, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, oragnisms, plants, vegetation, Fewer tags Lifespan of Massachusetts salt marsh units Lifespan of salt marshes in Massachusetts (MA) are calculated using conceptual marsh units defined by Ackerman and others (2022). The lifespan calculation is based on estimated sediment supply and sea-level rise (SLR) predictions after Ganju and others (2020). Sea level predictions are local estimates which correspond to the 0.3, 0.5, and 1.0 meter increase in Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) scenarios by 2100 from Sweet and others (2022). The U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including Massachusetts salt marshes, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic, Ecology, Environmental Health, Geomorphology, LTER, All tags... Long-Term Ecological Research, Massachusetts, Remote Sensing, Sedimentology, United States, Wildlife Biology, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, elevation, environment, estuarine processes, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, lifespan, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, sea-level change, sediment transport, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags Observed wildfire frequency, modelled wildfire probability, climate, and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region in the western United States These data were compiled so that annual wildfire could be modelled across the sagebrush region in the western United States. Our goal was to understand how wildfire probability relates to climate and fuel conditions across the entire sagebrush region. To do this we developed a statistical model that represents the relationship between annual wildfire probability and a small number of climate and fuel variables. Specifically, created predictions of wildfire probability using a biologically plausible logistic regression model that related wildfire probability to mean temperature, annual precipitation, the proportion summer precipitation (PSP), and aboveground biomass of annual herbaceous plants and perennial herbaceous... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Climatology, Colorado, All tags... Ecology, Forestry, Geography, Idaho, Information Sciences, Land Use Change, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Remote Sensing, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Washington, Wyoming, aboveground biomass, air temperature, annual plants, annual-grass fire cycle, atmospheric and climatic processes, biogeography, biota, data release, ecology, environment, fine fuel availability, fire occurrence, fires, herbacious plants, human impacts, logistic regression model, mathematical modeling, perennial plants, plants (organisms), precipitation (atmospheric), sagebrush region, vegetation, vegetation data, western United States, widlfire probability, wildfires, Fewer tags Land Cover Basin Characteristics Rasters from NLCD 2019 for South Carolina StreamStats In cooperation with the South Carolina Department of Transportation, the U.S. Geological Survey calculated four land cover basin characteristics rasters from the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2019 as part of updating the South Carolina StreamStats application. These datasets are raster representations of impervious surface, developed, forested, and storage land cover attributes within the South Carolina StreamStats study area, and will be served in the South Carolina StreamStats application (https://www.usgs.gov/streamstats) to describe delineated watersheds. The StreamStats application provides access to spatial analytical tools that are useful for water-resources planning and management, and for engineering... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Forestry, Hydrology, Land Use Change, All tags... South Carolina, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, biota, environment, forest ecosystems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, human impacts, hydrology, image analysis, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, runoff, vegetation, Fewer tags 1 2 »