Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Fractional Component Time-Series Across the Western U.S. 1985-2021 - Trends

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 1985-2021. The RCMAP product suite consists of nine fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub, and tree, in addition to the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. First, we have trained time-series predictions directly from 331 high-resolution sites collected from 2013-2018 from Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) instead of using the 2016 “base” map as an intermediary....

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

FSA 10:1 NAIP Imagery m_3511530_nw_11_1_20150528_20150923 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, 32003, 3511530, Aerial Compliance, CLARK CO NV FSA, All tags... Clark, Compliance, DESERT, DESERT, NW, Digital Ortho rectified Image, Downloadable Data, JPEG2000, NAIP, NV, NV003, Ortho Rectification, Orthoimagery, Quarter Quadrangle, USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), farming, Fewer tags

Centroid Consolidated, Section A-A' Looking Southeast

ADMMR map collection: Centroid Consolidated, Section A-A' Looking Southeast; 1 in. to 100 feet; 11 x 8 in.

Categories: Data; Tags: 1950s, Arizona, Black Reef, Centroid Consolidated Mine, Copper Hill, All tags... Copper, Oxide, Copper, Sulfide, Cunningham Pass metallic mineral dist., Dataset, Desert, Gold, Lode, Harcuva Mts. physiographic area, Harris Group, La Paz County, Robinson Group, Salome - 15 Min, Silver, T7N R12W Sec 18 SW, United States, geologic maps, geology, geoscientificInformation, maps and atlases, mineral resources, sections, subsurface maps, Fewer tags

Carbon and nitrogen limitations of soil microbial biomass in desert ecosystems

Microbial biomass nitrogen was measured in unamended (dry) and wetted soils in ten shrubland and grassland communities of the Chihuahuan desert, southern New Mexico, by the fumigation-extraction method. Microbial biomass-N in dry soils was undetectable. Average microbial biomass-N in wetted soils among all plant communities was 15.3 ?g g-1 soil. Highest values were found in the communities with the lowest topographic positions, and the minimum values were detected in the spaces between shrubs. Microbial biomass was positively and significantly correlated to soil organic carbon and extractable nitrogen (NH4 + + NO3 -). In a stepwise multiple regression, organic carbon and extractable nitrogen accounted for 40.9 and...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Biogeochemistry, Springer Netherlands, carbon, desert, grassland, All tags... microbial biomass-N, nitrogen, playa, shrubland, Fewer tags

FSA 10:1 NAIP Imagery m_3210655_se_13_1_20141004_20141030 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, 3210655, 35035, Aerial Compliance, Compliance, All tags... DESERT, DESERT, SE, Digital Ortho rectified Image, Downloadable Data, JPEG 2000, JPEG2000, NAIP, NM, NM035, OTERO CO NM FSA, Ortho Rectification, Orthoimagery, Otero, Quarter Quadrangle, USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), farming, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags

ADMMR Photo Archive file: Centroid Consolidated Mine 22-57

A simple wooden headframe.

Categories: Data; Tags: 1950s, Arizona, Black Reef, Copper Hill, Copper, Sulfide, All tags... Cunningham Pass metallic mineral dist., Dataset, Desert, Harcuva Mts. physiographic area, Harris Group, La Paz, Robinson Group, Salome - 15 Min, T7N R12W Sec 18 SW, United States, geoscientificInformation, headframes, image collections, mining, photographic prints, Fewer tags

ADMMR mining collection file: Centroid Consolidated Mine

This location is part of the Arizona Mineral Industry Location System (AzMILS), an inventory of mineral occurences, prospects and mine locations in Arizona. LaPaz42 is located in T7N R12W Sec 18 SW in the Salome - 15 Min quad. This collection consists of various reports, maps, records and related materials acquired by the Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources regarding mining properties in Arizona. Information was obtained by various means, including the property owners, exploration companies, consultants, verbal interviews, field visits, newspapers and publications. Some sections may be redacted for copyright. Please see the access statement.

Categories: Data; Tags: 1910s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, All tags... 1990s, Arizona, Black Reef, Copper Hill, Copper, Oxide, Copper, Sulfide, Cunningham Pass metallic mineral dist., Dataset, Desert, Gold, Lode, Harcuva Mts. physiographic area, Harris Group, La Paz, Robinson Group, Salome - 15 Min, Silver, T7N R12W Sec 18 SW, United States, borehole logging, chemical analysis, claim maps, core analysis, drilling and coring, economic geology, geologic maps, geologic structure, geoscientificInformation, gold ores, image collections, maps and atlases, metallic ores, mineral resources, mineralogy, mining and quarrying, natural resource exploration, news releases, reports, subsurface maps, topographic maps, Fewer tags

California - Colorado Desert region land cover

CDF-FRAP compiled the "best available" land cover data into a single data layer, to support the various analyses required for the 2002 Forest and Range Assessment. Typically the most current and detailed data were collected for various regions of the state or for unique mapping efforts (farmland, wetlands, riparian vegetation). Decision rules were developed that controlled which layers were given priority in areas of overlap. Cross-walks were used to compile the various sources into the common California Wildlife Wabitat Relationships (CWHR) system classification. Data sources had unique scale/resolution, multi-source data provided as 100m GRID. The original 1/2002 data used to support the Asessment is also available...

Tags: colorado, desert, landcover

BLM REA MBR 2010 Terrestrial Ecosystems Status - North American Warm Desert Badland

This map shows the current and near-term status of aquatic ecosystems, in addition to the input datasets used for the analysis and distribution modeling that were involved in producing these status datasets. These data are provided by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) "as is" and may contain errors or omissions. The User assumes the entire risk associated with its use of these data and bears all responsibility in determining whether these data are fit for the User's intended use. These data may not have the accuracy, resolution, completeness, timeliness, or other characteristics appropriate for applications that potential users of the data may contemplate. The User is encouraged to carefully consider the content of...

Types: Live Data; Tags: America, BLM, Badland, Bureau of Land Management, Current, All tags... DOI, Desert, Distribution, Ecosystem, Geospatial, MBR, MBR 2010, MapServer, Mojave Basin and Range, Near Term, North American, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Status, Terrestrial, Vegetation, Warm, biota, liveData, service, Fewer tags

USGS 1:24000-scale Quadrangle for Desert, UT 1969

USGS Historical Quadrangle in GeoPDF.

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

Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Litter Fractional Component Time-Series Across the Western U.S. 1985-2021

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 1985-2021. The RCMAP product suite consists of nine fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub, and tree, in addition to the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. First, we have trained time-series predictions directly from 331 high-resolution sites collected from 2013-2018 from Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) instead of using the 2016 “base” map as an intermediary....

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) Tree Cover Fractional Component Time-Series Across the Western U.S. 1985-2021

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 1985-2021. The RCMAP product suite consists of nine fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub, and tree, in addition to the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. First, we have trained time-series predictions directly from 331 high-resolution sites collected from 2013-2018 from Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) instead of using the 2016 “base” map as an intermediary....

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) Tree Cover 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

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

Mineral Survey No. 4344, Ellsworth Mining District

ADMMR map collection: Mineral Survey No. 4344, Ellsworth Mining District; 1 in. to 200 feet; 20 x 32 in.

Categories: Data; Tags: 1950s, Arizona, Black Reef, Centroid Consolidated Mine, Copper Hill, All tags... Copper, Oxide, Copper, Sulfide, Cunningham Pass metallic mineral dist., Dataset, Desert, Gold, Lode, Harcuva Mts. physiographic area, Harris Group, La Paz County, Robinson Group, Salome - 15 Min, Silver, T7N R12W Sec 18 SW, United States, claim maps, geoscientificInformation, mineral resources, plats, Fewer tags

ADMMR mining collection file: Black Beauty

This location is part of the Arizona Mineral Industry Location System (AzMILS), an inventory of mineral occurences, prospects and mine locations in Arizona. LaPaz158 is located in T7N R17W Sec 8 C in the Bouse - 15 Min quad. This collection consists of various reports, maps, records and related materials acquired by the Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources regarding mining properties in Arizona. Information was obtained by various means, including the property owners, exploration companies, consultants, verbal interviews, field visits, newspapers and publications. Some sections may be redacted for copyright. Please see the access statement.

Categories: Data; Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Arizona, Blunder, Bouse - 15 Min, All tags... Dataset, Desert, Gladys, La Paz, Lucky Jack, Manganese, Northern Plomosa metallic mineral dist., Plomosa Mts. physiographic area, T7N R17W Sec 8 C, United States, economic geology, geoscientificInformation, maps and atlases, milling and smelting, mineral resources, mining and quarrying, news releases, nonmetallic mineral resources, reports, topographic maps, Fewer tags

FSA 10:1 NAIP Imagery m_3911062_se_12_1_20160722_20161017 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, 3911062, 49015, Aerial Compliance, Compliance, All tags... DESERT, DESERT, SE, Digital Ortho rectified Image, Downloadable Data, EMERY CO UT FSA, Emery, JPEG2000, NAIP, Ortho Rectification, Orthoimagery, Quarter Quadrangle, USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), UT, UT015, farming, Fewer tags

Centroid Consolidated Mine, Claim Map

ADMMR map collection: Centroid Consolidated Mine, Claim Map; 36 x 54 in.

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Black Reef, Centroid Consolidated Mine, Copper Hill, Copper, Oxide, All tags... Copper, Sulfide, Cunningham Pass metallic mineral dist., Dataset, Desert, Gold, Lode, Harcuva Mts. physiographic area, Harris Group, La Paz County, Robinson Group, Salome - 15 Min, Silver, T7N R12W Sec 18 SW, United States, claim maps, geoscientificInformation, maps and atlases, mineral resources, Fewer tags

Interspecific Competition and Resource Pulse Utilization in a Cold Desert Community

In desert ecosystems a large proportion of water and nitrogen is supplied in rain-induced pulses. It has been suggested that competitive interactions among desert plants would be most intense during these pulse periods of high resource availability. We tested this hypothesis with three cold desert shrub species of the Colorado Plateau (Gutierrezia sarothrae, Atriplex confertifolia, and Chrysothamnus nauseosus), which differ in their distribution of functional roots. In a three-year field study we conducted a neighbor removal experiment in conjunction with simulated 25-mm precipitation events and the addition of a nitrogen pulse in either spring or summer. We measured predawn water potential (Ψ), gas exchange, leaf...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Atriplex confertifolia, Chrysothamnus nauseosus, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Gutierrezia sarothrae, All tags... desert, neighbor removal, plant competition, resource pulses, stable isotopes, water uptake, Fewer tags

Near-real-time Herbaceous Annual Cover in the Sagebrush Ecosystem (June 19, 2017)

This dataset provides a near-real-time estimate of 2017 herbaceous annual cover with an emphasis on annual grass (Boyte and Wylie. 2016. Near-real-time cheatrass percent cover in the Northern Great Basin, USA, 2015. Rangelands 38:278-284.) This estimate was based on remotely sensed enhanced Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (eMODIS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data gathered through June 19, 2017. This is the second iteration of an early estimate of herbaceous annual cover for 2017 over the same geographic area. The previous dataset used eMODIS NDVI data gathered through May 1 (https://doi.org/10.5066/F7445JZ9). The pixel values for this most recent estimate ranged from 0 to100% with...

Tags: Bromus tectorum, California, Colorado, Desert, Great Basin, All tags... Idaho, Montana, NDVI, Nevada, Oregon, Snake River Plain, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, fire, geoscientificInformation, habitat, invasive, sagebrush, satellite, western U.S., Fewer tags