Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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This narrative report cover activities during May August 1950 for Lake Ardoch, Billings Lake, Buffalo Lake, Brumba Lake, Johnson Lake, Kellys Slough, Lac Aux Morte Devils Lake, Lambs Lake, Little Goose, Minnewastena, Pleasant Lake, Prairie Lake, Rose Lake, Rock Lake, Snyder Lake, Sibley Lake, Silver Lake, Woodlake Marsh, Stump Lake. Water and wildlife are discussed. Followed by refuge development and maintenance, public relations, violations and field investigations or applied research. Photographs and NR forms are included.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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The DC-8 dropsonde system uses an integrated, highly accurate, GPS-located atmospheric profiling dropsonde, which measures and records current atmospheric conditions in a vertical column below the aircraft. The dropsonde, also known as dropwindsonde or parachute radiosonde, is a small, lightweight (less than 1 lb) cylindrical instrument that falls freely through the atmosphere, slowed somewhat by a small inflatable parachute.
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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This document is a request for an a certain individual to be the hearing officer for the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge public hearing.
USGS Small-scale Dataset - 100-Meter Resolution Grayscale Shaded Relief of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands 201304 GeoTIFF
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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The Grayscale Shaded Relief of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands map layer is a 100-meter resolution grayscale shaded relief image of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, in an Albers Equal-Area Conic projection. Shaded relief was created with the ArcGIS Hillshade command, with 45-degree sun elevation, 315-degree azimuth, and a z-factor of 1.0. Very dark and very light shades both represent steeper terrain. Mid-range grays represent flatter terrain. The grayscale shaded relief data were derived from the National Atlas 100-meter resolution elevation data. The elevation data were derived from 2012 National Elevation Dataset (NED) data and show the terrain of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands at a resolution of 100 meters. The NED is a raster product assembled by the U.S. Geological Survey, designed to provide national elevation data in a seamless form with a consistent datum, elevation unit, and projection. Data corrections made in the NED assembly process minimize artifacts, permit edge matching, and fill sliver areas of missing data. More information on NED can be found at http://ned.usgs.gov.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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ABSTRACT: Notice: This data set and guide were updated on June 30, 2014 to correct an error in the reported units. The data values were not changed.Spatially-gridded estimates of above ground biomass (AGB), net primary productivity (NPP), and net ecosystem productivity (NEP) are provided for forested areas of the conterminous United States (CONUS). Estimates of uncertainty are also provided for AGB and NEP. These data were derived by using Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data to constrain forest growth rates in a Carnegie-Ames-Stanford Approach (CASA) carbon-cycle process model. Note that the data set does not include data for forests in the Northern Prairie States region (NPS; see Figure 3). These data provide a detailed estimate of carbon sources and sinks from recent forest disturbance and recovery across regions and forest types of the US.The data are presented as a series of ten NetCDF v4 (*.nc4) files at two spatial scales (1-degree and 5-km spatial resolution) for the nominal year of 2005.
DS926 Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system in Florida and parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina -- Extent of the Floridan aquifer system
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units of the Floridan aquifer system were developed to define an updated hydrogeologic framework as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Groundwater Resources Program. This feature class contains a polygon that represents the extent of the Floridan aquifer system in onshore areas of the system.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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The AIRS Only Level 3 Daily Gridded Product contains standard retrieval means, standard deviations and input counts. Each file covers a temporal period of 24 hours for either the descending (equatorial crossing North to South @1:30 AM local time) or ascending (equatorial crossing South to North @1:30 PM local time) orbit. The data starts at the international dateline and progresses westward (as do the subsequent orbits of the satellite) so that neighboring gridded cells of data are no more than a swath of time apart (about 90 minutes). The two parts of a scan line crossing the dateline are included in separate L3 files, according to the date, so that data points in a grid box are always coincident in time. The edge of the AIRS Level 3 gridded cells is at the date line (the 180E/W longitude boundary). When plotted, this produces a map with 0 degrees longitude in the center of the image unless the bins are reordered. This method is preferred because the left (West) side of the image and the right (East) side of the image contain data farthest apart in time. The gridding scheme used by AIRS is the same as used by TOVS Pathfinder to create Level 3 products. The daily Level 3 products have gores between satellite paths where there is no coverage for that day. The geophysical parameters have been averaged and binned into 1 x 1 deg grid cells, from -180.0 to +180.0 deg longitude and from -90.0 to +90.0 deg latitude. For each grid map of 4-byte floating-point mean values there is a corresponding 4-byte floating-point map of standard deviation and a 2-byte integer grid map of counts. The counts map provides the user with the number of points per bin that were included in the mean and can be used to generate custom multi-day maps from the daily gridded products. The thermodynamic parameters are: Skin Temperature (land and sea surface), Air Temperature at the surface, Profiles of Air Temperature and Water Vapor, Tropopause Characteristics, Column Precipitable Water, Cloud Amount/Frequency, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Reflectance, Emissivity, Surface Pressure, Cloud Vertical Distribution. The trace gases parameters are: Total Amounts and Vertical Profiles of Carbon Monoxide, Methane, and Ozone. The actual names of the variables in the data files should be inferred from the Processing File Description document. (The Shortname for this product is AIRS3STD).
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra (EOS AM) and Aqua (EOS PM) satellites. Terra's orbit around the Earth is timed so that it passes from north to south across the equator in the morning, while Aqua passes south to north over the equator in the afternoon. Terra MODIS and Aqua MODIS are viewing the entire Earth's surface every 1 to 2 days, acquiring data in 36 spectral bands, or groups of wavelengths (see MODIS Technical Specifications). These data will improve our understanding of global dynamics and processes occurring on the land, in the oceans, and in the lower atmosphere. MODIS is playing a vital role in the development of validated, global, interactive Earth system models able to predict global change accurately enough to assist policy makers in making sound decisions concerning the protection of our environment.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has the statutory mandate to collect hydrographic data in support of nautical chart compilation for safe navigation and to provide background data for engineers, scientific, and other commercial and industrial activities. Hydrographic survey data primarily consist of water depths, but may also include features (e.g. rocks, wrecks), navigation aids, shoreline identification, and bottom type information. NOAA is responsible for archiving and distributing the source data as described in this metadata record.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has the statutory mandate to collect hydrographic data in support of nautical chart compilation for safe navigation and to provide background data for engineers, scientific, and other commercial and industrial activities. Hydrographic survey data primarily consist of water depths, but may also include features (e.g. rocks, wrecks), navigation aids, shoreline identification, and bottom type information. NOAA is responsible for archiving and distributing the source data as described in this metadata record.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra (EOS AM) and Aqua (EOS PM) satellites. Terra's orbit around the Earth is timed so that it passes from north to south across the equator in the morning, while Aqua passes south to north over the equator in the afternoon. Terra MODIS and Aqua MODIS are viewing the entire Earth's surface every 1 to 2 days, acquiring data in 36 spectral bands, or groups of wavelengths (see MODIS Technical Specifications). These data will improve our understanding of global dynamics and processes occurring on the land, in the oceans, and in the lower atmosphere. MODIS is playing a vital role in the development of validated, global, interactive Earth system models able to predict global change accurately enough to assist policy makers in making sound decisions concerning the protection of our environment.
Oceanographic station data from bottle casts from the INGHAM from Ocean Weather Station D (OWS-D) in the North Atlantic Ocean 26 March 1971 to 17 April 1971 (NODC Accession 7101098)
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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Oceanographic station data were collected from the INGHAM within a 1-mile radius of Ocean Weather Station D (4400N 04100W) and in transit. Data were collected by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) from 26 March 1971 to 17 April 1971. Data were processed by NODC to the NODC standard Station Data II Output Format (SD2). Full format description is available from NODC at www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/sd2.html. The SD2 format contains physical-chemical oceanographic data recorded at discrete depth levels. Most of the observations were made using multi-bottle Nansen casts or other types of water samplers. A small amount (about 5 percent) were obtained using electronic CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) or STD (salinity-temperature-depth) recorders. The CTD/STD data were reported to NODC at depth levels equivalent to Nansen cast data, however, and have been processed and stored the same as the Nansen data. Cruise information (e.g., ship, country, institution), position, date, and time, and reported for each station. The principal measured parameters and temperature and salinity , but dissolved oxygen, phosphate, total phosphorus, silicate, nitrate, nitrite, and pH may be reported. Meteorological conditions at the time of the cast (e.g., air temperature and pressure, wind, waves) may also be reported, as well as auxiliary data such as water color (Forel-Ule scale), water transparency (Secchi disk depth), and depth to bottom. Values of density (sigma-t) sound velocity, and dynamic depth anomaly are computed from measured parameters. Each station contains the measurements taken at the observed depth levels, but also includes data values interpolated to a set of standard depth levels.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The data in this accession was collected from ships of Opportunity during month of May 1990. The real time data of water temperature at varying depth bathythermograph (XBT) was recorded in stripcharts by the US Navy. Thirteen stripcharts and radio logs were submitted to NODC. The XBT data from these stripcharts have been digitized and is present in the current NODC data storage system in C116 file format.
Published By National Park Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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This shapefile is part of a project called Biological Surveys at the Martin Van Buren NHS conducted by Hudsonia Ltd. It depicts a part of Kinderhook Creek north of Roxbury Farm and the Martin Van Buren NHS.
Published By Federal Laboratory Consortium
Issued about 9 years ago
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Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has the statutory mandate to collect hydrographic data in support of nautical chart compilation for safe navigation and to provide background data for engineers, scientific, and other commercial and industrial activities. Hydrographic survey data primarily consist of water depths, but may also include features (e.g. rocks, wrecks), navigation aids, shoreline identification, and bottom type information. NOAA is responsible for archiving and distributing the source data as described in this metadata record.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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SST is derived from the MODIS IR channels using two channels in either the thermal IR (11-12 um) or channels in the mid-IR region (3.8-4.1 um). The approach is similar to the multi-channel sea surface temperature (MCSST) or the non-linear SST (NLSST) methods used to generate AVHRR-based SST. The MODIS data are available in a variety of spatial resolutions and temporal periods. The Level 3 mapped products are global gridded data sets with all points filled even over land.
Published By National Park Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics (HIS) is a National Park Service (NPS) Water Resources Division (WRD) project established to track certain goals created in response to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). One water resources management goal established by the Department of the Interior under GRPA requires NPS to track the percent of its managed surface waters that are meeting Clean Water Act (CWA) water quality standards. This goal requires an accurate inventory that spatially quantifies the surface water hydrography that each bureau manages and a procedure to determine and track which waterbodies are or are not meeting water quality standards as outlined by Section 303(d) of the CWA. This project helps meet this DOI GRPA goal by inventorying and monitoring in a geographic information system for the NPS: (1) CWA 303(d) quality impaired waters and causes; and (2) hydrographic statistics based on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). Hydrographic and 303(d) impairment statistics were evaluated based on a combination of 1:24,000 (NHD) and finer scale data (frequently provided by state GIS layers).
Published By National Park Service, Department of the Interior
Issued about 9 years ago
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Hydrographic and Impairment Statistics (HIS) is a National Park Service (NPS) Water Resources Division (WRD) project established to track certain goals created in response to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). One water resources management goal established by the Department of the Interior under GRPA requires NPS to track the percent of its managed surface waters that are meeting Clean Water Act (CWA) water quality standards. This goal requires an accurate inventory that spatially quantifies the surface water hydrography that each bureau manages and a procedure to determine and track which waterbodies are or are not meeting water quality standards as outlined by Section 303(d) of the CWA. This project helps meet this DOI GRPA goal by inventorying and monitoring in a geographic information system for the NPS: (1) CWA 303(d) quality impaired waters and causes; (2) hydrographic statistics based on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Hydrography Dataset (NHD); and (3) special designations recognizing waters of exceptional quality as defined in State water quality standards. Hydrographic and 303(d) impairment statistics were evaluated based on a combination of 1:24,000 (NHD) and finer scale data (frequently provided by state GIS layers). Information on State-designated uses and waters of exceptional quality are only available for a limited number of parks at this time.
Multibeam collection for EX1404L3: Multibeam data collected aboard Okeanos Explorer from 2014-09-16 to 2014-10-07, departing from Baltimore, MD and returning to North Kingstown, RI
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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This data set is part of a larger set of data called the MultiBeam Bathymetric Data Base (MBBDB) where other similar data can be found at http://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/multibeam/
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 Fergus Falls Wetland Management District summarizes refuge activities during fiscal year 1998. The report begins with an introduction to the refuge and a summary of the years highlights and climatic conditions. Information about monitoring and studies including waterfowl and nongame birds is provided next. Habitat restoration and management projects are also covered; activities include wetland and upland restoration, water level management, moist soil management, prescribed burning, and invasive plant control. Fish and wildlife management is discussed next with emphasis on bird banding and predator control. Coordination activities, such as agency partnerships and private land activities are outlined. The resource protection section provides information about law enforcement and land acquisition. Information about public education and recreation is given including visitor services and outreach programs. Finally, refuge planning and administration are discussed.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued about 9 years ago
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The SeaWiFS instrument was launched by Orbital Sciences Corporation on the OrbView-2 (a.k.a. SeaStar) satellite in August 1997, and collected data from September 1997 until the end of mission in December 2010. SeaWiFS had 8 spectral bands from 412 to 865 nm. It collected global data at 4 km resolution, and local data (limited onboard storage and direct broadcast) at 1 km. The mission and sensor were optimized for ocean color measurements, with a local noon (descending) equator crossing time orbit, fore-and-aft tilt capability, full dynamic range, and low polarization sensitivity.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued about 9 years ago
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Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued about 9 years ago
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FEMA Framework Basemap datasets comprise six of the seven FGDC themes of geospatial data that are used by most GIS applications (Note: the seventh framework theme, orthographic imagery, is packaged in a separate NFIP Metadata Profile): cadastral, geodetic control, governmental unit, transportation, general structures, hydrography (water areas & lines. These data include an encoding of the geographic extent of the features and a minimal number of attributes needed to identify and describe the features. (Source: Circular A16, p. 13)
Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge & Wetland Management District: Annual Narrative Report: Fiscal year 2002
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 Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge summarizes refuge activities during the 2002 fiscal year. The report begins with an introduction to the refuge and a summary of the years highlights and climatic conditions. Information about monitoring and studies including waterbirds and raptor surveys is provided next. Habitat restoration and management projects are also covered; activities include water level management, moist soil management, fire management, and invasive plant control. Fish and wildlife management is discussed next with emphasis on bird banding, disease monitoring, and nest structures. Coordination activities, such as interagency and private lands are outlined. The resource protection section provides information about law enforcement, contaminant cleanup, and land acquisition support. Information about public education and recreation is given including outreach programs and field trips. Finally, refuge planning and administration are discussed.