Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Fractional Component Time-Series Across the Western U.S. 1985-2020 - Shrub

The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across the western U.S. using Landsat imagery from 1985-2020. The RCMAP product suite consists of eight fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub and rule-based error maps including the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. We used an updated version of the 2016 base training data, with a more aggressive forest mask and reduced shrub and sagebrush cover bias in pinyon-juniper woodlands. We pooled training data in areas...

Tags: AZ, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, Black Hills, Blue Mountains, All tags... CA, CO, California, Chihuahuan, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Desert, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Mediterranean California, Middle Rockies, Mojave, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Plains, Northern Great Plains, Northern Great Salt Lake Desert, Northern Mountainous, Northern Rocky Mountains, OR, Oregon, Plains, Plateau, Rocky Mountains, SD, Sierra Nevada, Sonoran, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southern Great Salt Lake Desert, Southern Rocky Mountains, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, The Rockies, Three Forks, UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Wyoming Basin, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, mts, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, Fewer tags

Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Trends Fractional Component Time-Series Across Western North America from 1985-2023

The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across western North America using Landsat imagery from 1985-2023. The RCMAP product suite consists of ten fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub, tree, and shrub height in addition to the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. First, high-resolution training was revised using an improved neural-net classifier and modelling approach. These data serve as foundation to the RCMAP approach. The training database was...

Tags: AB, AZ, Alberta, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, All tags... Black Hills, Blue Mountains, CA, CO, California, Canada, Chihuahuan, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Desert, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Mediterranean California, Middle Rockies, Mojave, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Plains, Northern Great Plains, Northern Great Salt Lake Desert, Northern Mountainous, Northern Rocky Mountains, OR, Oregon, Plains, Plateau, Prairie Provinces, Rocky Mountains, SD, SK, Saskatchewan, Sierra Nevada, Sonoran, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southern Great Salt Lake Desert, Southern Rocky Mountains, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, The Rockies, Three Forks, UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Wyoming Basin, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, mts, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrub height, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, vegetation height, Fewer tags

Projections of Rangeland Fractional Component Cover Across Western US Rangelands for Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5 Scenarios for the 2020s, 2050s, and 2080s Time-Periods

Climate change over the past century has altered vegetation community composition and species distributions across rangelands in the western United States. The scale and magnitude of climatic influences are largely unknown. While a number of studies have projected the impacts of climate change using several modeling approaches, none has evaluated impacts to fractional component cover at a 30-m resolution across rangelands of the Western U.S. We used fractional component cover data for rangeland functional groups and weather data from the 1985 to 2021 reference period in conjunction with soils and topography data to develop empirical models describing the spatio-temporal variation in component cover. To investigate...

Tags: AZ, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, Black Hills, Blue Mountains, All tags... CA, CO, California, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, Land Use Change, MT, Middle Rockies, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, OR, Oregon, Rocky Mountains, SD, Snake River Plain, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southwest Tablelands, Three Forks, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, bare ground, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, Fewer tags

View of pegmatite rocks on Sylvan Lake, 6 miles north northeast of Custer, Black Hills. Custer County, South Dakota. 1897.

View of pegmatite rocks on Sylvan Lake, 6 miles north northeast of Custer, Black Hills. Custer County, South Dakota. September 1897.

Categories: Image; Tags: Black Hills, Custer County, South Dakota, Photographers, Walcott, C.D. Collection, photo print

Saturated thickness of the Minnelusa aquifer, Black Hills, South Dakota.

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This data set is a polygon coverage created in ARC/INFO that represents the saturated thickness of the Minnelusa aquifer, Black Hills area, South Dakota. The unconfined zone of the Minnelusa aquifer is the area where the potentiometric surface of the aquifer is below the top of the formation. The elevation of the top of the potentiometric surface of the Minnelusa aquifer was subtracted from the top of the Minnelusa Formation, and...

Tags: Black Hills, Minnelusa aquifer, NSDI, South Dakota, USA, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), environment, geology, geoscientificInformation, ground water, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, thickness, Fewer tags

Generalized thickness of the Madison Limestone and Englewood Formation, Black Hills, South Dakota.

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This data set is a polygon coverage created in ARC/INFO that represents the generalized thickness of the Madison Limestone and Englewood Formation, Black Hills, South Dakota. The thickness of the Madison Limestone and Englewood Formation was determined by substracting the elevation of the top of the Deadwood Formation from the elevation of the top of the Madison Limestone. The elevations for the tops of the formations were determined...

Tags: Black Hills, Englewood Formation, Madison Limestone, NSDI, South Dakota, All tags... USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), environment, geology, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, thickness, Fewer tags

Potentiometric surface contours for the Inyan Kara aquifer, Black Hills area, South Dakota

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This data set represents potentiometric surface contours for the Inyan Kara aquifer, Black Hills, South Dakota.

Tags: Black Hills, Inyan Kara Group, Inyan Kara aquifer, NSDI, South Dakota, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), contour, environment, geoscientificInformation, ground water, hydrology, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, potentiometric, water level, Fewer tags

FSA 10:1 NAIP Imagery m_3110538_nw_13_1_20141005_20141201 3.75 x 3.75 minute JPEG2000 from The National Map

This data set contains imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). The NAIP program is administered by USDA FSA and has been established to support two main FSA strategic goals centered on agricultural production. These are increase stewardship of America's natural resources while enhancing the environment, and to ensure commodities are procured and distributed effectively and efficiently to increase food security. The NAIP program supports these goals by acquiring and providing ortho imagery that has been collected during the agricultural growing season in the U.S. The NAIP ortho imagery is tailored to meet FSA requirements and is a fundamental tool used to support FSA farm and conservation programs....

Types: Citation; Tags: 3.75 x 3.75 minute, 3110538, 48229, Aerial Compliance, BLACK HILLS, All tags... BLACK HILLS, NW, Compliance, Digital Ortho rectified Image, Downloadable Data, HUDSPETH CO TX FSA, Hudspeth, JPEG 2000, JPEG2000, NAIP, Ortho Rectification, Orthoimagery, Quarter Quadrangle, TX, TX229, USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), farming, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags

FSA 10:1 NAIP Imagery m_4610603_sw_13_1_20150811_20160104 3.75 x 3.75 minute JPEG2000 from The National Map

This data set contains imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). The NAIP program is administered by USDA FSA and has been established to support two main FSA strategic goals centered on agricultural production. These are, increase stewardship of America's natural resources while enhancing the environment, and to ensure commodities are procured and distributed effectively and efficiently to increase food security. The NAIP program supports these goals by acquiring and providing ortho imagery that has been collected during the agricultural growing season in the U.S. The NAIP ortho imagery is tailored to meet FSA requirements and is a fundamental tool used to support FSA farm and conservation programs....

Types: Citation; Tags: 3.75 x 3.75 minute, 30033, 4610603, Aerial Compliance, BLACK HILLS, All tags... BLACK HILLS, SW, Compliance, Digital Ortho rectified Image, Downloadable Data, GARFIELD CO MT FSA, Garfield, JPEG2000, MT, MT033, NAIP, Ortho Rectification, Orthoimagery, Quarter Quadrangle, USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), farming, Fewer tags

P W Claim Group, Composite Plan

Heinrichs Geoexploration Co. Maps: P W Claim Group, Composite Plan; 1 in. to 2000 feet; 24 x 11 in.

Categories: Data; Tags: 1970s, Arizona, Black Hills, Cactus Forest - 7.5 Min, Chamberlain Property, All tags... Copper, Dataset, Florence physiographic area, Manganese, Manganese King, Manganese Queen, Pinal County, Pinal166, T6S R11E Sec 18 W2, United States, Zig Zag Pat. Claims Ms 4540, Zig Zag metallic mineral dist., geophysics, geoscientificInformation, maps and atlases, natural resource exploration, plans, Fewer tags

FSA 10:1 NAIP Imagery m_3511738_ne_11_h_20160522_20161004 3.75 x 3.75 minute JPEG2000 from The National Map

This data set contains imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). The NAIP program is administered by USDA FSA and has been established to support two main FSA strategic goals centered on agricultural production. These are, increase stewardship of America's natural resources while enhancing the environment, and to ensure commodities are procured and distributed effectively and efficiently to increase food security. The NAIP program supports these goals by acquiring and providing ortho imagery that has been collected during the agricultural growing season in the U.S. The NAIP ortho imagery is tailored to meet FSA requirements and is a fundamental tool used to support FSA farm and conservation programs....

Types: Citation; Tags: 06071, 3.75 x 3.75 minute, 3511738, Aerial Compliance, BLACK HILLS, All tags... BLACK HILLS, NE, CA, CA071, Compliance, Digital Ortho rectified Image, Downloadable Data, JPEG2000, NAIP, Ortho Rectification, Orthoimagery, Quarter Quadrangle, SAN BERNARDINO CO CA FSA, San Bernardino, USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), farming, Fewer tags

USGS 1:24000-scale Quadrangle for Black Hills, TX 1979

USGS Historical Quadrangle in GeoPDF.

Tags: 7.5 x 7.5 minute, Black Hills, Downloadable Data, GeoPDF, GeoTIFF, All tags... Historical Topographic Maps, Historical Topographic Maps 7.5 x 7.5 Minute Map Series, Map, TX, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags

Selected data for wells and test holes used in structure-contour maps of the Deadwood Formation in the Black Hills area, South Dakota

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This dataset describes wells and test holes completed in the Deadwood Formation that were used to create the structure-contours for the top of the Deadwood Formation, Black Hills, South Dakota.

Tags: Black Hills, Deadwood Formation, NSDI, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... environment, geology, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, structural, structure, well, Fewer tags

Overlying surficial deposits and absent areas for Minnekahta Limestone in the Black Hills area, South Dakota

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This data set describes areas where the Minnekahta Limestone is directly overlain by surficial deposits, as well as those areas where the Minnekahta Limestone is absent in the Black Hills area, South Dakota.

Tags: Black Hills, Minnekahta Limestone, NSDI, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... absent, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, surficial deposits, Fewer tags

Spring point coverage for the potentiometric coverages for the Inyan Kara, Minnekahta, Minnelusa, Madison, and Deadwood Aquifers in the Black Hills Area, South Dakota

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This dataset describes springs in the Black Hills area that were used to create potentiometric surface maps for the Inyan Kara, Minnekahta, Minnelusa, Madison, and Deadwood aquifers.

Tags: Black Hills, NSDI, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), environment, All tags... geoscientificInformation, ground water, hydrology, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, spring, water level, Fewer tags

Wells used in the creation of potentiometric surface contours for the Inyan Kara, Minnekahta, Minnelusa, Madison, and Deadwood Aquifers in the Black Hills Area, South Dakota

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This dataset describes wells completed in the Deadwood Formation that were used to create a potentiometric surface for the Deadwood aquifer.

Tags: Black Hills, Deadwood Formation, Deadwood aquifer, NSDI, South Dakota, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), environment, geoscientificInformation, ground water, hydrology, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, water level, wells, Fewer tags

Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Fractional Component Time-Series Across Western North America from 1985-2023

The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across western North America using Landsat imagery from 1985-2023. The RCMAP product suite consists of ten fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub, tree, and shrub height in addition to the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. First, high-resolution training was revised using an improved neural-net classifier and modelling approach. These data serve as foundation to the RCMAP approach. The training database was...

Tags: AB, AZ, Alberta, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, All tags... Black Hills, Blue Mountains, CA, CO, California, Canada, Chihuahuan, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Desert, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, Land Use Change, MT, Mediterranean California, Middle Rockies, Mojave, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Plains, Northern Great Plains, Northern Great Salt Lake Desert, Northern Mountainous, Northern Rocky Mountains, OR, Oregon, Plains, Plateau, Prairie Provinces, Rocky Mountains, SD, SK, Saskatchewan, Sierra Nevada, Sonoran, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southern Great Salt Lake Desert, Southern Rocky Mountains, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, The Rockies, Three Forks, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Wyoming Basin, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, mts, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrub height, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, vegetation height, Fewer tags

Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Herbaceous Fractional Component Time-Series Across Western North America from 1985-2023

The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across western North America using Landsat imagery from 1985-2023. The RCMAP product suite consists of ten fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub, tree, and shrub height in addition to the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. First, high-resolution training was revised using an improved neural-net classifier and modelling approach. These data serve as foundation to the RCMAP approach. The training database was...

Tags: AB, AZ, Alberta, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, All tags... Black Hills, Blue Mountains, CA, CO, California, Canada, Chihuahuan, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Desert, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Mediterranean California, Middle Rockies, Mojave, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Plains, Northern Great Plains, Northern Great Salt Lake Desert, Northern Mountainous, Northern Rocky Mountains, OR, Oregon, Plains, Plateau, Prairie Provinces, Rocky Mountains, SD, SK, Saskatchewan, Sierra Nevada, Sonoran, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southern Great Salt Lake Desert, Southern Rocky Mountains, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, The Rockies, Three Forks, UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Wyoming Basin, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, mts, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrub height, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, vegetation height, Fewer tags

Remote Sensing Shrub/Grass National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Back-in-Time (BIT) Bare Ground Products for the Western U.S., 1985 - 2018

The need to monitor change in sagebrush steppe is urgent due to the increasing impacts of climate change, shifting fire regimes, and management practices on ecosystem health. Remote sensing provides a cost-effective and reliable method for monitoring change through time and attributing changes to drivers. We report an automated method of mapping rangeland fractional component cover over a large portion of the Northern Great Basin, USA, from 1986 to 2016 using a dense Landsat imagery time series. 2012 was excluded from the time-series due to a lack of quality imagery. Our method improved upon the traditional change vector method by considering the legacy of change at each pixel. We evaluate cover trends stratified...

Tags: AZ, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, Black Hills, Blue Mountains, All tags... CA, CO, California, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Middle Rockies, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Mountainous, OR, Oregon, Rocky Mountains, SD, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, Three Forks, UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, Fewer tags

View of pegmatite rocks on Sylvan Lake, 6 miles north northeast of Custer, Black Hills. Custer County, South Dakota. 1897.

View of pegmatite rocks on Sylvan Lake, 6 miles north northeast of Custer, Black Hills. Custer County, South Dakota. September 1897.

Categories: Image; Tags: Black Hills, Custer County, South Dakota, Photographers, Walcott, C.D. Collection, photo print