Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This is a coverage of the county boundaries of the conterminous United States (AK, HI and Puerto Rico are available separately). The lines were extracted from U.S. Census TIGER/line files using an AML program (see 4.), written by Doug Nebert and Mark Negri, running on two Data General 6220 servers. Counties Boundaries United States
Published By Social Security Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Management information for DDSs and regional offices to support disability information.
Climate Prediction Center (CPC) One Month Probabilistic Temperature Outlook for the Contiguous United States and Alaska
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) issues a probabilistic one-month temperature outlook for the United States twice a month. CPC issues an initial monthly outlook with a lead time of 0.5 months on the third Thursday of every month. CPC issues an updated version of the monthly outlook with a lead time of 0.0 months on the last day of each month. For example, in mid-January, CPC will issue a One-Month Probabilistic Temperature Outlook for February. An updated version of this outlook (valid for February) would then be issued at the end of January. New outlooks, valid for March, would then be released in mid-February and the end of February, respectively. CPC expresses the outlooks in a 3-category probabilistic format as the chance the mean temperature for the period will be above, below, or near normal. CPC bases its definition of above normal, near normal, and below normal by dividing a thirty year climatology into equally likely thirds comprising 10 cases each. Note that the base period for the thirty year climatology (currently beginning in 1981 and ending in 2010) is updated once per decade. The top 10 (warmest) cases of this thirty year climatology define the above normal category, the bottom 10 (coldest) cases define the below normal category, and the middle 10 cases define the near normal category. CPC indicates the probability of the most likely category with shaded contours and labels the centers of maximum probability with the letters "A" (for Above Normal), "B" (for Below Normal), or "N" (for Near Normal). For areas where a favored category cannot be determined, CPC indicates those areas with an "EC" meaning "Equal Chances". CPC also accompanies the outlook maps with a technical discussion of the meteorological and climatological basis for the outlooks. CPC may include analysis of statistical and numerical models, meteorological and sea-surface temperature patterns, trends and past analogs, and confidence factors in this technical discussion.
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued over 9 years ago
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Hydrology data include spatial datasets and data tables necessary for documenting the hydrologic procedures for estimating flood discharges for a flood insurance study, which includes the hydrologic data expected by FEMA for new riverine studies. (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N)
Published By Department of Justice
Issued over 9 years ago
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The primary purpose of the Workplace Risk Supplement (WRS) is to obtain accurate information regarding the incidence of violence in the workplace so that legislators and policymakers, as well as academic researchers, practitioners at the Federal, state an
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued over 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; classificatons 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 UTM 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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Analog Marine Geophysical Underway data file consists primarily of seismic data and some bathymetry, magnetics, and gravity data. Most of the data are released to NGDC in microform packages; microfilm, microfiche exceptions include deep penetration seismic record sections and maps released in full or half scale. The data cover approximately 5 million miles of worldwide oceans and have been collected by various academic institutions, government agencies and foreign governments. Data are quality checked, master and backup copies produced and disseminated upon request. These seismic data include Lease Sale (LS) data which are a collection of marine geophysical data in a particular area and common depth point (CDP) data consisting of multichannel high-resolution underway seismic records. Shot-point navigation and occasionally annotated bathymetry accompany the seismic data. The data were released mainly from the US Geological Survey (USGS), and the Minerals Management Service (MMS). Output Media: sections, maps, 35-mm microfilm, magnetic tapes, text and microfiche. In most cases, the microfilm has been scanned and data available as tiff images.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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This data set provides estimates of different forms of naturally occurring soil phosphorus (P) including labile inorganic P, organic P, occluded P, secondary mineral P, apatite P, and total P on a global scale at 0.5-degree resolution. The data were assembled from chronosequence information and global spatial databases to develop a map of total soil P and the distribution among mineral bound, labile, organic, occluded, and secondary P forms in soils. Uncertainty was calculated for the different forms. The data set has no explicit temporal component -- data were nominally for the pre-industrial period ca. 1850.The estimated global spatial variation and distribution of different soil P forms presented in this study will be useful for global biogeochemistry models that include P as a limiting element in biological production by providing initial estimates of the available soil P for plant uptake and microbial utilization (Yang et al., 2013).There is one netCDF data file (.nc) with this data set.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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KalScott Engineering, and the subcontractor, Princeton University propose the development and demonstration of compact and robust methane sensor for small Unmanned Aerial Systems (s-UAS) by synthesizing state-of-the-art, laser-based detection methods with the rapidly increasing s-UAS market. The overall goal of this project is to develop and demonstrate (via flight test) laser-based flight-weight methane sensors. In Phase I, the sensor will be built and lab-tested, followed by initial flight tests on KalScott's Cessna 210. In Phase II, a refined version of the sensor will be built, and flight tested, first on the Cessna, and then on a small UAS.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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Federal onshore lands contain an estimated 20 percent of the oil and 25 percent of the undiscovered natural gas resources in the United States (U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 2006) and the BLM has identified the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) as an area with high potential for continued energy development (U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 2002). The UCRB drains portions of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming and is part of the largest river basin in the southwestern United States. A significant volume of known and potential oil and gas reserves lies in the sedimentary basins of the UCRB (Huffman, 1995; U.S. Geological Survey 2002a; U.S. Geological Survey 2002b; U.S. Geological Survey 2002c) and an average of 4,527 wells per year was started on Federal land in the five UCRB states in fiscal years (FY, October 1 to September 30) 2006 and 2007 (U.S. Bureau of Land Management 2008). An average of 2,462 wells per year were drilled between FY 2000 and 2005. 1,284 wells were drilled per year on average in the preceding 10 year period from FY 1990 to 1999. Increased drilling activity has raised concerns that land disturbance from drilling activity may have an affect on surface water quality in the basin. Existing and planned land disturbance data are not regularly or consistently compiled at the state or regional level. Regional-scale compilation, synthesis, and analysis of data defining energy development-related land disturbance and water quality in the UCRB may help to improve understanding of the potential cumulative effects of current and projected energy development on land cover changes in the basin. The location of known oil and gas wells was compiled from state oil and gas databases and merged into a single oil and gas well dataset for the UCRB. The reported status of each well was used to classify the well into two categories: disturbed or not disturbed. Disturbed wells are likely associated with land disturbance. The classified wells were used to estimate the location and extent of energy related land disturbance in the basin. References: Huffman, A.C., Jr., 1995, Paradox Basin Province: U.S. Geological Survey 1995 National oil and gas assessments, accessed April 2009 at http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/noga95/prov21/text/prov21.pdf U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 2002, Resourceful management of our natural resources, accessed April 2009 at http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/wo/Communications_Directorate/general_publications/mgmt.Par.6587.File.dat/handout_02.pdf U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 2006, Scientific inventory of onshore federal lands' oil and gas resources and the extent and nature of restrictions or impediments to their development: Energy policy and conservation act phase II inventory, accessed October 2007 at http://www.blm.gov/epca/ U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 2008, Oil and Gas Statistics, accessed February 2009 at http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/newsroom/Energy_Facts_07/statistics.html U.S. Geological Survey, 2002a, Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Uinta-Piceance Province of Colorado and Utah, 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 026-02, accessed April 2009 at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0026-02/fs-0026-02.pdf U.S. Geological Survey, 2002b, Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the San Juan Basin Province of New Mexico and Colorado, 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 147-02, accessed April 2009 at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-147-02/FS-147-02.pdf U.S. Geological Survey, 2002c, Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Southwestern Wyoming Province, 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 145-02, accessed April 2009 at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-145-02/FS-145-02.pdf
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Access database that calls the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Catalog ServCat Representational State Transfer REST Services to display the title and keywords for a record.
Published By US Census Bureau, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The purpose of this file is to provide the geography for the 2010 Census Blocks along with their 2010 housing unit count and population. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Blocks are the smallest geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more faces.
Published By Department of Defense
Issued over 9 years ago
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National Defense Budget Estimates for the FY 2008 Budget (Green Book). Summary reference source for the National Defense budget estimates for FY 2008.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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All-digital, CMOS-based Photodiode Camera Project
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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Home Health Care - Measure Date Range
Published By US Agency for International Development
Issued over 9 years ago
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The USAID ENS provides quick and effective notification messages during any emergency affecting the Ronald Reagan Building, SA-44, Potomac Yards and USAID Washington D.C. personnel. This system delivers important emergency alerts, notifications and updates on a range of devices. When an incident or emergency occurs, authorized USAID personnel can rapidly notify subscribers using this agency-wide alert system. The USAID ENS is subscribers' personal connection to real-time updates, instructions on where to go, what to do, or what not to do, who to contact and other important information.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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The innovation proposed here is a computational framework for high performance, high fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to enable accurate, fast and robust simulation of unsteady turbulent, reacting or non-reacting flows involving real or ideal fluids. This framework will provide a state-of-the-art unsteady turbulent flow simulation capability by laying the foundation for the incorporation of Hybrid RANS-LES (HRLES) methods which are a blend of Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approaches. This design and analysis tool will be built on a currently existing solver called Loci-STREAM which has been developed by the proposing firm under funding from NASA over the last four years. The work proposed here will result in a state-of-the-art design and analysis tool to enable the accurate modeling of small valves, turbopumps, combustion devices, etc. which constitute critical components of versatile space propulsion engines with deep throttling capability as part of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration Mission. Of particular relevance to NASA, this design and analysis tool will provide improved understanding and quantification of the time-varying, reacting flow environments in the thrust chamber assembly of space propulsion engines.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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The inventory includes 5,297 Glaciers from west Greenland between 59 to 71 degrees latitude north and 43 to 53 degrees longitude west. The glacier data basin division is based on a simplified version of the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) system. Data are based on 1:250000 maps, Landsat imagery, and aerial photos that were taken between 1948 and 1985.
H11044_SSSGEO1M_WGS84.TIF: Enhanced Sidescan-Sonar Image of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) survey H11044 in Long Island Sound (Geographic)
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, has produced detailed geologic maps of the sea floor in Long Island Sound. These studies have built upon cooperative research with the State of Connecticut that was initiated in 1982. This research program is currently studying sea-floor sediment distribution, processes that control sediment distribution, nearshore environmental concerns, and the relation of benthic community structures to the sea-floor geology. Detailed maps of the sea floor are needed to aid in interpretation of the sea-floor geology. Therefore, sidescan-sonar data have been collected in areas of interest. Although these mosaics from NOAA surveys H11043, H11044, and H11045 in north-central Long Island Sound have been interpreted in prior reports, we have enhanced these three mosaics in order to minimize tonal artifacts created by the mismatching of backscatter in adjacent track lines. The enhanced mosaics provide a clearer image of the sea-floor geology.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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Ecological indicators can facilitate Ecosystem-based Management, but only if targets for indicators exist. Because targets are an expression of the desired state of the ecosystem, establishing targets must include ecological understanding and societal values. This project will develop a unique approach for identifying scientifically rigorous ecosystem targets that explicitly consider social perspectives. Focusing on the PSP species and food web goal, we will: 1) Identify a set of critical ecosystem attributes, and use a food web model to examine changes to these attributes as a result of simulated changes of nearshore habitat and water quality; and, 2) Conduct social norm analyses in which stakeholders are asked to rate the desirability of a range of potential ecosystem conditions. By completing each of these tasks, we will uniquely blend ecological and social science to inform the creation of scientifically rigorous and socially responsive management targets. Sociology data
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued over 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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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This data set contains topographic/geomorphological data associated with the four Intensive Study Areas (ISAs) in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon (northern Oriente) that are part of the University of North Carolina's Carolina Population Center (CPC) Ecuador Projects study. Study area boundaries were developed directly from 1:50,000 topographical maps. Point elevation features and 20-meter elevation contours were digitized from these same maps. Digital elevation models (DEMs) were derived from these elevation data and, in turn, terrain aspect and terrain slope were derived from the digital elevation models. Only boundary data were provided for the southwestern ISA. These data are provided in ESRI shapefile format and GeoTiff. There are six compressed (*.zip) data files with this data set.
Published By Department of Labor
Issued over 9 years ago
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Project GATE was a random-assignment demonstration project designed to help public workforce system clients create, sustain or expand their own business. The cornerstone of the evaluation of Project GATE was random assignment. A total of 4,198 applicants to Project GATE were randomly assigned to either the program group or the control group. Members of the program group were offered GATE services; members of the control group were not. This dataset is the final data from the evaluation and includes administrative data from the six and eighteen month follow-ups and survey data from the six month, eighteen month, and sixty month follow-ups of program participants.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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SSCI, in collaboration with University of Texas, Austin (UTA), proposes to develop, integrate, implement and test a novel framework for the design and performance evaluation of Guidance, Naviagation & Control algorithms for spacecraft Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking (AR\&D). The framework is referred to as the GUARD (GUidance, Navigation and Control for AR\&D), and will include a suite of advanced navigation, optimal trajectory generation, Failure Detection and Identification (FDI), and constrained adaptive fault-tolerant guidance and control algorithms that can be tailored to a specific AR&D mission and tested with respect to a given set of requirements and specifications. Specific Phase I tasks include: (i) Develop GN&C-oriented and high-fidelity dynamic models for AR&D; (ii) Develop Optimal AR&D Algorithms under non-convex constraints; (iii) Develop Constrained Control Algorithms; (iv) Integrate the G&C Algorithms with Vision-based Navigation Algorithm; and (v) Carry out initial simulation testing & performance evaluation. Phase II will be focused on further maturation of the approach, rigorous Verification and Validation of the overall GUARD system, and its implementation on an experimental test bed at UTA. Dr. Behcet Acikmese of UTA will be our subcontractor under the project.
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued over 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).