Published By Executive Office of the President
Issued over 9 years ago
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Long-range (75-year) projections of receipts, spending, deficit, and interest on the public debt.
Daily Movements, Habitat Use, and Mortality Factors of American Ducks Wintering in Western Tennessee
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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American black ducks Anas rubripes wintering in the Mississippi Flyway comprise approx 30 if the continental population. Winter surveys for this population have declined by 64 between 1955 and 1985. Information similar to that obtained for Atlantic Flyway black ducks is needed for important populations of black ducks wintering in interior habitats of the Mississippi Flyway. This research project will provide data on daily movements, habitat preferences, nonhunting mortality rates and causes of mortality for an important population of Mississippi Flyway black ducks.
Reference springs in California for the regional ground-water potential map by Bedinger and Harrill (2004), Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This digital geospatial data set is a compilation of reference points representing springs in California that were used for the regional ground-water potential map by Bedinger and Harrill (2004). The regional ground-water potential map was developed to assess potential interbasin flow in the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS), a 100,000-square-kilometer region of southern Nevada and California. To obtain an adequate network of control points, Bedinger and Harrill (2004) used regional potential altitudes derived from surface-water features, ground-water levels, topographic settings and deep wells in addition to the spring data. A set of general guidelines was developed to relate regional ground-water potential to these more readily observed surface and near-surface ground-water levels and to hydrologic characteristics of ground-water basins in the DVRFS (see "Larger Work Citation", Appendix 1).
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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Comprehensive planning and monitoring of abiotic (hydrology, land forms, energy and nutrients, and chemistry) and biotic (plants, fish, invertebrates, birds, mammals) attributes pre- and post-breach at a 150 hectare site in the Snohomish estuary. RTK GPS point locations at project and reference sites.
Published By Federal Laboratory Consortium
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Energetics Manufacturing Department provides development, scale-up, full-scale demonstration, and destructive and nondestructive testing of energetic formulations for chemicals, munitions, explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, and energetic ingredients. The department also maintains and develops state of the art facilities for the development, manufacture, and test of energetic products in support of DoD. In addition, the department serves as the Navy's single CAD/PAD stock and issue point. The department also provides quality engineering support and services and maintains the activity's hardware inspection and machine shop. Manufacturing Capabilities Cast Explosives and Propellants Extruded Double Base Propellants High Energy Casting Powder and Gun Propellants Continuous Processing of Energetics Chemical Scale-Up of Energetics Nitration Processes Cartridge Actuated Devices (CADs) Propellant Actuated Devices (PADs) Rocket Motor Igniters Pressed and Machined Explosives Metal Parts Machining and Fabrication Explosive Ordnance Demilitarization Test and Evaluation Rocket Motor Static Testing Cartridge, Initiator, Igniter, and Gas Generator Testing Environmental Testing Energetic Device Dissection CNC Machining of Energetics Non-Destructive Test Raw Material Receipt & Inspection
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The Traffic Records Improvement Program Reporting System (TRIPRS) contains detailedinformation on all projects contained in the strategic plans submitted by the states and U.S.Territories for the NHTSA Section 408 grant application. Recently, it has been adopted byFMCSA, FHWA, and the US-DOT TRCC as a tool to track all safety data improvement fundsgiven to states. Reporting tool supported by NCSA. NATIONAL DRIVER REGISTER & TRAFFIC RECORDS (NVS-422).
Principal Aquifers of the 48 Conterminous United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands - Direct Download
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This map layer contains the shallowest principal aquifers of the conterminous United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, portrayed as polygons. The map layer was developed as part of the effort to produce the maps published at 1:2,500,000 in the printed series "Ground Water Atlas of the United States". The published maps contain base and cultural features not included in these data. This is a replacement for the July 1998 map layer called Principal Aquifers of the 48 Conterminous United States.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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Monthly Weather Observations ( Form 1001) is a set of historical manuscript records for the period 1893-1948. The major parameters in these records: station and sea level pressure; dry bulb, wet bulb, and dewpoint temperature; humidity; winds; precipitation; snowfall and snow depth; clouds; and weather. These highly detailed observations range from 2-4 times daily.
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 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). In addition to the preceding, required text, the Abstract should also describe the projection and coordinate system as well as a general statement about horizontal accuracy.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Understanding task performance and crew behavioral health is crucial to mission success and to the optimal design, development, and operation of next-generation spacecraft. Onboard resources, like a conventional 2D video camera, can capture crew motion and interaction; however, there is a critical need for a software tool that achieves unobtrusive, non-invasive, automatic analysis of crew activity from this footage. The proposed automatic video-based motion analysis software (AVIMA) supports this R&D effort by automatically processing and analyzing complex human motions in conventional 2D video without the use of specialized markers. Unlike many video analytics solutions, AVIMA goes beyond simple blob-based video analysis by tracking the geometric configuration of human body parts like the trunk, head, and limbs. This tracking enables human motion understanding algorithms to model and recognize complex human actions and interactions. The resulting system will represent a substantial breakthrough providing benefits to an array of applications in video surveillance, human-computer interaction, human factors engineering, and robotics.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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This project merged recently collected topographic, bathymetric, and acoustic elevation data along the entire California coastline from approximately the 10 meter elevation contour out to California's 3 mile state water's boundary. This metadata record describes the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) created from the lidar and multibeam data. The DEM has a 1m cell size. Topographic LiDAR: The topographic lidar data used in this merged project was the 2009-2011 CA Coastal Conservancy Lidar Project. The data were collected between October 2009 and August 2011. This collection was a joint effort by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM); the California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) Ocean Protection Council (OPC); Scripps Institution of Oceanography; and the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX). The data coverage extends landward 500 m from the shoreline, along the entire California coastline. The LAS classifications are as follows: 1-Unclassified, 2-Ground, 7-Noise, 9-Water, 10- Mudflats, 12-Overlap. The LAS points were manually re-classified from water and unclassified to ground in offshore areas where necessary. Bathymetric LiDAR: The bathymetric lidar data used in this merged project was 2009-2010 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Center of Expertise (JALBTCX) lidar, provided by JALBTCX. The data were collected for the California Coastal Mapping Project (CCMP). The original data were in ASCII format and were converted to LAS v1.2. The LAS data were classified as follows: 21-Non-submerged Bathymetry, 22-Bathymetry, 23-Ignored Submerged Bathymetry/Overlap. Multibeam Acoustic Data: The acoustic data data used in this merged project were provided by the California Seafloor Mapping Program (CSMP) Ocean Protection Council and NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). The original data were in ASCII format and were converted to LAS v1.2. NOAA's VDatum software was used to vertically transform soundings from mean lower low water (MLLW) tidal datum to NAVD88 orthometric datum where necessary. The LAS data were classified as follows: 25-Submerged Acoustic, 26-Ignored Submerged Acoustic/Overlap. Upon receipt of the data, the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) converted some of the classifications for data storage and Digital Coast provisioning purposes. The following are the classifications of data available from the NOAA Digital Coast: 1 - Unclassified, 2 - Ground, 7 - Low point (noise), 9 - Water, 11 - Bathymetry, 12 - Overlap, 13 - Submerged Acoustic, 14 - Non-Submerged Bathymetry, 15 - Ignored Submerged Bathymetry/Overlap, 16 - Ignored Submerged Acoustic/Overlap
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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This release contains the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Inpatient Public Use Files (PUF) named CMS 2008 BSA Inpatient Claims PUF with information from 2008 Medicare inpatient claims. This is a claim-level file in which each record is an inpatient claim incurred by a 5 percent sample of Medicare beneficiaries.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Laser diodes are the key component in many space-based applications ranging from communication systems to optical sensors/detectors. Laser diode emitters however dissipate large amounts of waste heat of their own from the small footprint of the device. As a result, the dissipating heat flux from the laser diodes can reach a level as high as 1kW/cm2. The performance and reliability of laser diode arrays can degrade severely if the waste heat is not properly managed. Indeed temperature control is critical when the laser diode arrays are used for pumping a solid-state laser such as Nd:YAG. The solid-state laser has a narrow absorption bandwidth and requires a narrow pump source. Any variation in temperature throughout the array will cause the emitters to emit different wavelengths, thus increasing the bandwidth of the array. Spray cooling is probably the only available thermal control technology capable of dispersing heat fluxes of this extreme level (>200W/cm2). Spray cooling is a heat removal method by an evaporative heat transfer process. In this research project, a novel concept that combines a conventional refrigeration cycle and spray cooling technique into one system is proposed as the solution to extremely high heat flux problems.
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued over 9 years ago
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Terrain data, as defined in FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N: Data Capture Standards, describes the digital topographic data that was used to create the elevation data representing the terrain environment of a watershed and/or floodplain. Terrain data requirements allow for flexibility in the types of information provided as sources used to produce final terrain deliverables. Once this type of data is provided, FEMA will be able to account for the origins of the flood study elevation data. (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N, Section N.1.2).
Published By Department of Housing and Urban Development
Issued over 9 years ago
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A FEMA housing inspection for renters is used to assess personal property loss and for owners to assess damage to their home as well as personal property. This inspection is done to determine eligibility for FEMA Individual Assistance. For both rental and owner inspections, if the property has flood damage the inspector measures the height of the flooding. They indicate the highest floor of the flooding (for example, Basement, 1st floor, 2nd floor, etc...) and the height of the flooding in that room. In addition for the units without flooding, HUD has estimated minor/major/severe damage based on the damage inspection estimates for real property (owner) and personal property (renter).
Published By Department of the Treasury
Issued over 9 years ago
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Sales totals by month are updated every weekday by 5 p.m. (ET). Mintage is updated annually. Programs tracked in this report include: American Eagle, American Buffalo, and America the Beautiful Silver Five Ounce Coin
Compatibility determination : Waterfowl hunting on 5,500 acres of former commercial salt ponds : Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge : Alviso and Ravenswood Salt Ponds
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This Compatibility Determination concerns the proposed waterfowl duck, goose, and coot hunting program for the Alviso and Ravenswood Salt Ponds. Ponds AB1, A2E, AB2, A3N, A3W, A5, A7 and A8N would be open to waterfowl hunting three days a week for a total of approximately 2,622 acres. Ponds A1, A2W, A8S, A22, A23, R3, R4, R5, SF2 and S5 would be closed to waterfowl hunting for a total of approximately 2,378 acres. The Hunting Program would be monitored by taking information on number of hunters and harvest information conducted by Refuge law enforcement staff.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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The USGS Salton Sea project encompasses a 5-kilometer buffer around the Salton Sea, California. Dewberry classified LiDAR for a project boundary that touches 623 tiles (1500 m x 1500 m). Dewberry also created tiled DEMs with a hydro-flattened lake surface. The original horizontal spatial reference system for the USGS Salton Sea project was NAD83, UTM Zone 11N, meters. Two sets of LAS are delivered that have different vertical reference systems. These include: 1. Ellipsoidal, meters and 2. NAVD88, meters. OCM converted all files to ellipsoidal (geoid09) and horizontal geographic projections to meet OCM schema.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Our goal is to develop a social networking site with novel, specially designed feature sets to enable simultaneous remote collaboration and sharing of large data sets among scientists. This site, called Sci-Share, will include not only the standard features found on popular consumer oriented social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace but also a number of powerful tools to extend its functionality to a science collaboration site.
Multibeam collection for MGL0907: Multibeam data collected aboard Marcus G. Langseth from 2009-06-07 to 2009-06-14, departing from Kao-hsiung, Taiwan and returning to Kao-hsiung, Taiwan
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 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/
bathy_trk_07007.shp - Tracklines of swath bathymetry collected by the U.S. Geological Survey offshore of the Chandeleur Islands, LA, 2007 (polylines)
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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In 2006 and 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey, in partnership with Louisiana Department of Natural Resources and the University of New Orleans, conducted geologic mapping to characterize the sea floor and shallow subsurface stratigraphy offshore of the Chandeleur Islands in Eastern Louisiana. The mapping was carried out during two cruises on the R/V Acadiana. Data were acquired with the following equipment: an SEA Ltd SwathPlus interferometric sonar (234 kHz), Klein 3000 dual frequency sidescan sonar, and an Edgetech 512i chirp subbottom profiling system. The long-term goal of this mapping effort is to produce high-quality geologic maps and geophysical interpretations that can be utilized to investigate the impact of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and to identify sand resources within the region.
Published By Department of Transportation
Issued over 9 years ago
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Tracking data for environmental related correspondence.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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NASA has identified a need for new high performance-to-weight materials capable of protecting critical components from the space environment, mitigating threat of uncontrolled electrostatic discharge, and reducing vulnerability to radiation or thermally induced damage. Recent advances in metallic nanoparticle-polymer composites have shown promise of meeting these multifunctional design goals, but their achievement has been hampered by non-uniform dispersion of nanoparticles within the polymeric matrix. To address these problems, International Scientific Technologies - Aerospace Systems Division will modify metal nanoparticle surfaces with organic ligands to fabricate reliable nanocomposites. The proposed material development is responsive to NASA Subtopic X2.03 by providing a means by which a wide-range of multifunctional nanostructured materials may be designed and fabricated. The Phase I Technical Objectives include fabrication of conductive nanocomposites incorporating metallic nanoparticles in polymeric materials, measurement of nanocomposite properties in simulated space environments, and optimization of proof-of-concept conductive multifunctional nanocomposites. In the Phase I program, metallic nanoparticles will be functionalized for incorporation into polymeric matrices for electrostatic control and prevention of atomic oxygen degradation. The project innovation is the development of ligand-modified nanoparticle additives to realize multifunctional nanocomposites for space applications. Successful completion of the Phase I program will result in multifunctional spacecraft materials that are inherently anti-static for electrostatic control, and self-healing following degradation in harsh space environments. During Phase II, prototype multifunctional nanocomposites will be evaluated for control of electrostatic charging, and resistance to atomic oxygen and/or radiation degradation in simulated space environments prior to commercialization in Phase III.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)is the leading chemical agent causing human fatalities following inhalation exposures. The overall aim of this project is to develop and produce an inexpensive, highly selective and sensitive solid-state chemical micro-sensor with low power consumption that is suitable for rapid detection of very low-level (ppb) concentration of H2S in ambient air. The technology principle used to develop the micro-sensor is based on the knowledge that H2S is adsorbed into gold at an operating temperature range. By using a gold thin-film, and MEMS technology, we will produce a micro-sensor with the following specifications 1 mm x 1 mm micro-sensor, 3 seconds response and recovery time, 10 mW power consumption, and detection in the ppb range. Phase I will investigate the feasibility of the design, fabrication, testing, and validation of the micro-sensor in collaboration with researchers from the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility at the University of California Irvine. During Phase II, the innovative solid-state micro-sensor will be integrated in a miniaturized battery powered wireless instrument for applications in biomass fouling detection.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This map shows the USGS (United States Geologic Survey), NWIS (National Water Inventory System) Hydrologic Data Sites for Salt Lake County, Utah. The scope and purpose of NWIS is defined on the web site: http://water.usgs.gov/public/pubs/FS/FS-027-98/