Published By National Park Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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NPScape conservation status metrics are calculated using data from the USGS Gap Analysis Program (PAD-US), World Protected Areas Database (WDPA), and National Marine Protected Areas Center (MPA). Metric GIS datasets are produced seamlessly for the United States (Lower 48, Alaska, Hawaiian Islands, Guam/American Samoa, Puerto Rico/US Virgin Islands), Canada, and Mexico, although both geographic coverage and resolution vary by source dataset. The methods underlying these calculations are available for download through the NPScape website: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/npscape/methods.cfm.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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NASA faces many systems engineering challenges as it seeks to conduct exploration and science missions concurrently. One such challenge is implementing a repeatable systems engineering process to missions that vary greatly in scale and complexity. The same process applied to lunar and Mars exploration missions, for example, do not necessarily scale well to Earth science missions. Existing systems engineering tools do not adequately address this problem. They tend to be inflexible implementations of a "one size fits all" approach to process, and provide little or no interoperability with other tools used in the system engineer's workflow. Emergent Space Technologies, Inc. proposes to develop the Systems Engineering Process Realization Toolkit (SE-PRO). SE-PRO will broaden the capabilities for capturing, communicating, and implementing the systems engineering process, regardless of the size of the mission based on the ability to customize the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) approach to process implementation. The innovation lies in the intuitive graphical user interface that allows systems engineers to combine processes like CMMI, NASA Procedural Requirements (NPR's), and Goddard Procedural Requirements (GPR's), into a single process that is modifiable by the missions to specify the workflows, team assignments, and output products according to their needs.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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This proposal describes development of a new type of quantum-cascade laser for use as a local oscillator at frequencies above 2 THz. The THz source described is a single chip solution that operates at room temperature. In addition, a mechanism for wide tuning (2-4.7 THz) is described that requires no moving parts.
Published By Department of Agriculture
Issued about 9 years ago
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This report provides data regarding the nutrition assistance programs performance report for August 2014. The report reflects the participation of persons in FNS' programs.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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Busek proposes to develop an integrated propulsion, power, ACS, (ProPACS) system for micro-spacecraft deployed from the ESPA ring secondary payload ports. The standardized ProPACS system integrates the essential elements needed for highly capable micro-spacecraft bus including; 1) 600 W Hall effect thruster system for primary propulsion, 2) Xe cold gas thrusters for propulsive ACS, 3) articulated solar array, batteries and power management and distribution (PMAD) system with steady state power of 700W available to the payload when propulsion is off and 4) an integral structure that supports the payload and a LightBand separation mechanism for the ESPA ring. The ProPACS can provide over 1,800 m/sec deltaV to a 181 kg spacecraft with a 80kg payload. In Phase 1 ProPACS system architecture design was completed and all major components were identified. Mass, power, data budgets were developed and major interfaces were specified. Phase 2 focus will be on the ProPACS elements with lower TRL to achieve system wide TRL6 at the end of the program. The thruster will be advanced to near flight level, two PMAD systems will be evaluated and one selected and the ProPACS integral structure supporting the payload and separation ring will be designed and built.
Published By Department of Education
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund website depicts and allows downloading of general information on the i3 applicants received, grantees awarded and project locations. The Investing in Innovation Fund, established under section 14007 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), provides funding to support (1) local educational agencies (LEAs), and (2) nonprofit organizations in partnership with (a) one or more LEAs or (b) a consortium of schools. The purpose of the i3 program is to provide competitive grants to applicants with a record of improving student achievement and attainment in order to expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are demonstrated to have an impact on improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates. These grants will (1) allow eligible entities to expand and develop innovative practices that can serve as models of best practices, (2) allow eligible entities to work in partnership with the private sector and the philanthropic community, and (3) identify and document best practices that can be shared and taken to scale based on demonstrated success.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The National Weather Service (NWS) National Hurricane Center uses regularly updated RSS feeds to disseminate Podcasts for NHC media briefings for current US Coast or US Territorial Islands landfalling hurricanes (en Espanol)
Published By Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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Datasets containing a listing of USCG accepted liferaft servicing facilities
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) Database depicts flood risk information and supporting data used to develop the risk data. The primary risk classifications used are the 1-percent-annual-chance flood event, the 0.2-percent-annual-chance flood event, and areas of minimal flood risk. The DFIRM Database is derived from Flood Insurance Studies (FISs), previously published Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), flood hazard analyses performed in support of the FISs and FIRMs, and new mapping data, where available. The FISs and FIRMs are published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The file is georeferenced to earth's surface using the State Plane projection and coordinate system. The specifications for the horizontal control of DFIRM data files are consistent with those required for mapping at a scale of 1:12,000.
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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This protocol is primarily designed to provide a mechanism for monitoring trends in whooping crane abundance on their wintering grounds along the Texas gulf coast. Secondarily, the protocol provides mechanisms for monitoring recruitment rates, the number of whooping crane pairs that recruited young into the winter flock, and whooping crane winter range expansion. Finally, this protocol is designed to augment planning and conservation efforts with information about the relationships among local whooping crane abundance and habitat or environmental characteristics.The survey methods provided in this protocol are a defensible, statistically rigorous means to estimate the annual abundance, and associated degree of confidence, of whooping cranes wintering within the sampling frame. Furthermore, the survey methods provide for defensible estimates of the number of whooping crane pairs and the number of pairs that recruited young into the winter flock, which are downlisting criteria identified by the International Recovery Plan for whooping cranes. Finally, the use of hierarchical distance sampling provides spatiallyexplicit maps of whooping crane abundance. The predictive models used to create these maps provide a better understanding of whooping crane resource use, which will guide whooping crane conservation efforts. They also inform management, identify potentially important future whooping crane habitat, and direct land conservation and development initiatives. This protocol has a digital object identifier. doi:10.7944W3159J
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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To provide the user with a general idea of areas where final critical habitat for Noel's amphipod occur. The geographic extent includes Chaves County, New Mexico.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The through-cloud capabilities of microwave radiometers provide a valuable picture of global sea surface temperature (SST). To utilize this, scientists at Remote Sensing Systems have calculated a daily, Optimally Interpolated (OI) SST product at quarter degree (~25 kilometer) resolution. This product is ideal for research activities in which a complete, daily SST map is more desirable than one with missing data due to orbital gaps or environmental conditions precluding SST retrieval. Improved global daily NRT SSTs should be useful for a wide range of scientific and operational activities. The addition of SST derived from Ifrared (IR) measurements allows higher spatial resolution, and SST near land.However, IR input is less accurate than MW due to cloud contamination. Blending MW and IR enables greater coverage and higher accuracy than IR only SSTs, but current OI does not completely eliminate cloud contamination inherent to IR SSTs
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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This annual narrative report for Valentine NWR outlines Refuge accomplishments during the 1967 calendar year. The report begins by summarizing the weather conditions, habitat conditions, water conditions, and food and cover conditions during the year. Wildlife including migratory birds, upland game birds, big game animals, furbearers, predators, rodents, mammals, raptors, fish, reptiles, and diseases is also covered. The Refuge development and maintenance section discusses physical developments, plantings, vegetation control, and wildfires. Resource management is outlined; topics include grazing, haying, and fur harvesting. A progress report on field investigations and applied research is also provided. The public relations section of the report describes recreational uses, Refuge visitors, Refuge participation, hunting, violations, and safety. Items of interest, NR forms, and photographs are attached.
Published By Department of Veterans Affairs
Issued about 9 years ago
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Overview of the steps for a Business to become verified
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The overall objective is to familiarize participating scientists with PISCES multibeam echosounder (Simrad ME70) configuration, operation, calibration and data collection and test the sonar's capabilities for a variety of applications. An additional objective is to collect water column and seafloor scattering data using PISCES multibeam echosounder and splitbeam echosounders (Simrad EK60) in coordination with measurements being conducted on OKEANOS EXPLORER using Simrad EM302 multibeam echosounder for comparison between systems.
GHRSST Level 4 EUR Mediterranean Sea Regional Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (GDS version 2)
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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A Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Level 4 sea surface temperature analysis produced daily by Ifremer/CERSAT (France) using optimal interpolation (OI) on a regional 0.02 degree grid. It provides a daily cloud-free field of foundation sea surface temperature at approximately 2 km resolution (0.02 degree) for the Mediterranean Sea. It is generated by merging microwave and infrared satellite sea surface temperature observations including those from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), the Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR), the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI), the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS (AMSRE), and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager (TMI). The satellite SST observations are intercalibrated using the AATSR sensor as a reference (previously re-calibrated using all available in situ data). This dataset was the first Level 4 product produced by the GHRSST Project. It has been superseded by the ODYSSEA L4 product for this region: GHRSST Level 4 ODYSSEA Mediterranean Sea Regional Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis.
Published By Department of Agriculture
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) directed the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish nutrition standards for all foods and beverages sold to students on the school campus during the school day. On June 28, 2013, the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) published the "Smart Snacks in School" (Smart Snacks) regulation that carefully balances science-based nutrition standards with practical and flexible solutions to promote healthier eating on campus. The purpose of this memorandum is to clarify Smart Snacks standards for exempt food that are paired together as a single snack.
Published By US Agency for International Development
Issued about 9 years ago
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Agency Correspondence Tracking System: is an executive correspondence tracking system for the Administrator. It collects and organizes information on reports required of the Agency in congressional legislation and other directives.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Buoy table consists of location information, ownership, and general geographic descriptions of buoys and weather stations. In addition to buoys operated by the National Data Buoy Center (including C-MAN stations and DART buoys), this data set includes those maintained by Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of South Florida, Center for Coastal and Land-Margin Research at Oregon Health & Science University, Environment Canada, Caro-COOPS: Carolinas Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction System, Essi Corporation, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System, Coastal Studies Institute at Louisiana State University, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences, NC-COOS: North Carolina Coastal Ocean Observing System, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Stevens Institute of Technology, Texas A & M University, and Texas Coastal Ocean Observing Network
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation study deliverables depict and quantify the flood risks for the study area. The primary risk classifications used are the 1-percent-annual-chance flood event, the 0.2-percent-annual- chance flood event, and areas of minimal flood risk. The Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation flood risk boundaries are derived from the engineering information Flood Insurance Studies (FISs), previously published Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), flood hazard analyses performed in support of the FISs and FIRMs, and new mapping data, where available. The FISs and FIRMs are published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Published By Department of Transportation
Issued about 9 years ago
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The public use waybill sample provides a cleansed version of the waybill sample for public use. The sensitive shipping and revenue data is removed.
A ZigBee-Based Wireless Sensor Network for Continuous Sound and Noise Level Monitoring on the ISS Project
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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The International Space Station (ISS) needs to keep quiet to maintain a healthy and habitable environment in which crewmembers can perform long-term and uninterrupted scientific research under microgravity conditions. Acoustic survey is now performed once every two months using hand-held devices at 60 locations on the ISS. It takes a significant amount of precious crew time and the sporadic monitoring program is not adequate. NASA has defined a need for an automated, continuous acoustic monitoring system that is efficient in power consumption (long battery life), accurate, highly integrated, wireless connected, scalable, small and lightweight. WeVoice Inc.\ proposed to develop a ZigBee-based wireless sensor network for acoustic monitoring to meet the challenges. During Phase I of this projects, three essential capabilities were developed, tested, and validated: * The design of a data collection subsystem that integrates measurement microphones and the feasibility of using the state-of-the-art MEMS microphones. * The development of accurate and computationally efficient signal processing algorithms for acoustic frequency (octave, 1/3-octave, and narrowband) analysis and sound level measurement. * The construction of a ZigBee network for data communication. In addition, the WeVoice SBIR research team has started working on flight-like devices. Clear directions for improvement were established for the Phase II efforts that may follow. The Phase II program focuses on system integration and optimization, software implementation, and graphical user interface development. An in-situ calibration plan will be suggested and a demonstrable system will be delivered to NASA for testing in a ground facility at the completion of the Phase II contract. So the expected TRL then is expected to reach 6.
Published By Department of State
Issued about 9 years ago
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The "Syria Border Crossings" dataset contains verified data about the geographic location (point geometry) and name of border crossings for Syria. Compiled by the U.S. Department of State, Humanitarian Information Unit (https://hiu.state.gov/), each attribute in the dataset is verified against multiple sources. Locations are only accurate down to the city level. The data contained herein is entirely unclassified and is current as of 11 June 2015. The data is updated as needed. This dataset is hosted on State GeoNode at http://geonode.state.gov/layers/geonode%3ASyria_BorderCrossings_2015Jun11_HIU_USDoS
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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Datalogger files are raw USCRN data. However, instead of being collected via satellite, the raw data are collected from station dataloggers (also referred to as PDAs--Personal Digital Assistant) in the field during site maintenance visits by ATDD (contractor) engineers. These data are uploaded to a site at Oak Ridge National Lab from where they are pulled by NCDC. These raw data are received as CSV formatted files--decoders and detailed documentation are required to read the data and will be provided to ingest. These files may not be available until months after the included observations are made. These data are considered of higher quality than USCRN Raw/streamed data.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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A collection of lunar maps and charts. This tool is an exciting new way to explore the story of the Apollo missions, still the only time mankind has set foot on another world.