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Aniuk Consulting, LLC, proposes to create a GIS software toolkit for easily converting NASA HDF-EOS data into formats that can be readily used within a Geographic Information System (GIS) or other geospatial software programs. The Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) is a widely used scientific data format and serves as the standard format for NASA EOS products. The HDF-EOS toolbar will allow a user to reformat, re-project, and perform geospatial operations on NASA EOS data. This toolkit is designed to improve upon current HDF conversion tools and will be packaged as a software extension for ESRI's ArcGIS 9.3 suite of products. In addition, we will assess the feasibility of extending the HDF-EOS toolbar to operate within an existing open-source GIS package. This proposal targets the "Data Analyzing and Processing Algorithms" research initiative announced by the Goddard Space Flight Center by exploiting spatial tools in order to increase the accessibility, interoperability, and inter-use of HDF-EOS data within the GIS/Geospatial research community.

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Survey data includes spatial datasets and data tables necessary to digitally represent data collected in the survey phase of the study. (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specs, Appendix N)

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Advatech Pacific proposes to develop a Virtual Satellite Integration Environment (VSIE) for the NASA Ames Mission Design Center. The VSIE introduces into NASA Mission Design Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools and processes, which haven proven themselves in the industrial manufacturing world. In addition to COTS PLM tools, the VSIE hinges on two key concepts: An enhanced Digital Mock-Up (termed DMU++) and the so-called Common Geometry Strategy. DMU typically addresses mechanical form, fit and function of a component or sub-assembly in the assembly context. We propose to go one step further and address electrical power, data, and other similar interfaces in the DMU to automatically detect compatibility issues beyond mere mechanical fit. This will be an enabling functionality for rapid mission design and integration of components from a database of existing off-the-shelf hardware such as the database currently under development at the NASA Ames Mission Design Center. The Common Geometry Strategy was introduced in the late 1990s in both the commercial aircraft engine and automotive industries, however, it has so far not found its way into satellite design or satellite mission design. The fundamental idea is that the same Master Model geometric information is readily available to all disciplines and individuals that need geometric information to perform their job. Since a particular disciplinary specialist may require only an abstraction of the detailed 3D-geometry, the idea of a "Context Model" is introduced. The Context Model is a simplified representation of the detailed 3D CAD model, which is simplified precisely to the level of detail required by the specialist, while maintaining full associativity to the Master Model geometry, so that it either automatically updates when the Master Model geometry changes, or at least notifies the specialist that it is out of date.

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This survey provides nationally representative data on persons held in state prisons and is similar to surveys conducted in 1974 (ICPSR 7811), 1979 (ICPSR 7856), and 1986 (ICPSR 8711). The survey was designed to provide information on individual character

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This NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Inter-Satellite Calibrated Clear-Sky High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) Channel 12 brightness temperatures contains over 30 years (1978-2013) of data. Among the twenty channels in the HIRS instrument, channel 12 measures upper tropospheric water vapor (UTWV). Multiple polar orbiting satellites in the NOAA Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) series and MetOp-A have carried HIRS instruments. Due to the independence in calibration of the individual HIRS instruments, biases exist between satellites. Examination of the intersatellite biases shows that the biases are scene brightness temperature dependent. These HIRS channel 12 measurements from the NOAA POES and MetOp-A are calibrated to a baseline satellite based on intersatellite bias correction data. The differences from the last version include that the dataset is now provided as monthly mean 2.5x2.5 degree latitude/longitude in netcdf format and the time series has been extended to the end of 2013. This CDR is key to understanding water vapor feedback climatology.

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FINAL CRITICAL HABITAT FOR RABBITSFOOT

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This dataset represents lineaments in the Powder River Basin as identified in the following U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper: Anna, L.O., 1986, Geologic framework of the ground water system in Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks on the Northern Great Plains, in parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1402-B, 36 p. A lineament is defined as a linear topographic feature of regional extent that is believed to reflect crustal structure (Hobbs et al., 1976, p. 267). Lineament features were transferred from the publication to a hard-copy base map by province geologist, then digitized and referenced for use in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Lineaments may: 1) enhance secondary reservoir permeability and 2) provide migration pathways in unconventional rocks.

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This points feature class shows the physical locations of BLM Administrative Offices (at the State, District, and Field Office levels).

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NASA's future spacecraft require advanced thermal management technologies to provide effective cooling for multiple instruments and reject heat through multiple radiators. To meet this need, we propose to develop a reconfigurable two-phase pumped loop that can accommodate a complex network of evaporators and multiple radiators. The pumped loop has two performance features: 1) reliable refrigerant circulation with a mechanical pump even when the refrigerant flow exiting the radiators is a two-phase flow with significant vapor quality, and 2) reliable flow distribution among evaporators to minimize flow maldistribution due to heat load variation. These features are achieved by a combination of an innovative loop configuration and Creare's proven enabling components. In Phase I, we will prove the feasibility of reliable refrigerant circulation through building and testing a proof-of-concept pumped loop with key features, optimizing the pumped loop design and predicting its performance. In Phase II, we will build and test an integrated pumped loop with multiple evaporators and heat sinks and demonstrate its performance in a representative thermal environment.

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<p>The proposed work focuses on the evaluation and testing of the W-band SSPA on the current airborne Cloud Radar System (CRS) transceiver so that it can be operated with either the original Klystron-based transmitter, or the SSPA. We will swap in either transmitter to maintain the current EIK capability. As we gain more confidence in the SSPA-based transmitter, we will migrate entirely to this approach.  This SSPA-based transceiver will enable the usage a number of recently developed radar techniques, such as advanced versatile Tx/Rx waveform, ultra-low sidelobe pulse compression, and frequency diversity.  It is necessary to modify the hardware and firmware in order to accommodate the above new techniques. Recent advances to HIWRAP’s advanced waveform generation need to be transferred to CRS to take full advantage of the SSPA. The resulting work is readily applicable to upcoming cloud and precipitation radar spaceborne missions.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

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These unprojected (geographic coordinates) 3-Zone Average Annual Salinity Digital Geographies are based on analysis of long-term salinity data for 147 estuaries of the contiguous United States. Each estuary is subdivided into three zones between the head(s) of tide, and the seaward boundaries based on annual-averaged and depth-averaged salinities. The salinities used to define the three zones are: (1) Tidal Fresh Zone (0 to 0.5 parts per thousand); (2) Mixing Zone (0.5 to 25 parts per thousand); (3) Seawater Zone (25 parts per thousand or greater). This 3-zone scheme is considered static rather than dynamic, because it does not take into account the seasonal variations in salinity patterns and stratification that occur in most estuaries. Nonetheless, it provides a simple and readily understandable way to depict the long-term salinity characteristics of U.S. estuarine waters. Note that not all estuaries contain all three zones - for example, Baffin Bay, Texas, receives relatively little annual freshwater inflow, and is considered to be entirely Seawater Zone. This 3-zone scheme was originally presented in the National Estuarine Inventory (NEI) Data Atlas, Vol. I (NOAA/NOS 1985) for 92 estuaries of the contiguous United States. In the 1990s, digital geographies were refined and many estuaries were added to become a key layer within the Coastal Assessment Framework (NOAA 2007). These 3-Zone Average Annual Salinity Digital Geography have been used for applications in natural resource science and management. They provided the spatial framework and basis for development of NOAA's Estuarine Living Marine Resources (ELMR) Program (Nelson and Monaco 2000), and also for NOAA's National Estuarine Eutrophication Assessment (Bricker et al. 2007).

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A collection of SNF Medicare cost report data from the CMS Form 2540-96.

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This dataset represents relative seabird abundance predictions from spatial models developed for the New York offshore spatial planning area. This raster was derived from multiple individual species season models. The model also includes spatially-explicit uncertainty estimates represented in another raster dataset. Raster values represent a dimensionless number scaled between 0 and 1, where values closer to 0 indicate greater certainty. The relative uncertainty value at each location is the same for all hotspot quantities (abundance, richness, and diversity index), because it is a function of the underlying trend and spatial model uncertainty for each species/group.

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EDFacts School Improvement Grant 2011-12 (EDFacts SIG:2011-12) is one of 17 'topics' identified in the EDFacts documentation (in this database, each 'topic' is entered as a separate study); program data is available since 2005 at . EDFacts SIG:2011-12 (ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts) annually collects cross-sectional data about students, teachers, principals, and schools from states to monitor and report performance on the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program at the school levels. EDFacts SIG:2011-12 data were collected using the EDFacts Submission System (ESS), a centralized portal and their submission by states is mandatory and required for benefits. Not submitting the required reports by a state constitutes a failure to comply with law and may have consequences for federal funding to the state. Key statistics produced from EDFacts SIG:2011-12 are from 14 data groups with information on Advanced Coursework, Dual Enrollment, Advanced Coursework/Dual Enrollment, Average Scale Scores, Increased Learning Time, Intervention Used, School Year Minutes, Student Attendance Rate, Teacher Attendance Rate, Persistently Lowest-Achieving Schools, Principal Evaluations, Principal Performance Level Names, Teacher Evaluations, and Teacher Performance Level Names. For the purposes of this system, data groups are referred to as 'variables', as a result of the structure and format of EDFacts' data.

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These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

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Considering the information provided in the previous section, the objective of the present investigation is to examine foraging habits of wood storks, as well as contaminants in dead nestlings from an urban colony and in prey and sediments from waterbodies used by foraging wood storks. Given the mobility of wading birds, the loss of natural wetlands, the gain of manmade water bodies, and the negligible contaminant risks, enhancement of manmade water bodies may assist efforts to conserve species such as wood storks. Enhancements could include stocking of prey fish, decreasing slopes andor installing littoral, and controlling emergent aquatic vegetation to increase their ability to forage. Federal agencies under section 7a1 of the ESA are authorized to carry out programs to further the conservation of threatened and endangered species. Under the FWCA and MBTA, the USFWS can submit comments to project proponents for furthering conservation and minimizing impacts associated with proposed activities. To illustrate, Federal agencies that have permitting programs associated with retention ponds could offer incentives or establish requirements for ponds to be constructed in a way that would enhance their use by wading birds such as wood storks. Although Martin 2010 suggested steep slopes should be maintained on golf course ponds because those types of manmade water bodies had higher concentrations of certain contaminants compared to the other water bodies, Martin 2010 also stated that exposure to contaminants across all water bodies, including golf, course ponds was low and there was little risk of adverse effects to wood storks that foraged on prey from the water bodies. The USFWS has authorities under section 7a2 and 10 of the ESA to require project proponents to develop and implement reasonable and prudent measures to minimize take of federally threatened or endangered species, but the USFWS has to be reasonably certain that the area is occupied or used by the species, and that the projects direct and indirect effects are going to take individuals of that species, This investigation supports the first of these two requirements, but not the second. In regard to the contaminantrelated effects on wood storks, the present investigation indicates that contaminant exposure is not reasonably certain to result in take of wood storks that forage in the types of manmade water bodies that are represented in the present investigation; and therefore, the USFWS could not require changes to the design of new water bodies or modification of existing water bodies. During section 7a2 consultations, the USFWS can, however, make conservation recommendations which are not mandatory to project proponents that would aid in the conservation of threatened and endangered species by enhancing or discouraging the use of manmade water bodies by wading birds. Depending on the situation, these recommendations could include the stocking of fish, creation of littoral zones, and other activities that would increase the use of the retention ponds by wading birds; or conversely, include measures to discourage bird use. In a broader sense, it should be noted that contaminant and noncontaminantrelated risks are considered during ESA consultations and may drive decisions regarding whether or not to enhance manmade water bodies for wading birds. For example, the proximity of retention ponds to roads and highways is a concern because of potential automobile strikes. In closing, development of a document to guide decisions regarding the design and management of retention ponds and other manmade water bodies may be useful in streamlining regulatory procedures and aiding the conservation of wood storks and other wading birds.

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The key innovation of this effort is the development of a Metroplex-based arrival, departure, and surface optimization system which we call MetroSim. Linking with both the NASA-developed Traffic Management Advisor (TMA) tool, the NASA-developed System Oriented Runway Management (SORM) tool, the FAA-proposed Terminal Flight Data Management (TFDM) system, or alternatively with live or recorded flight data, MetroSim allows airport planners, traffic flow management experts, airline dispatchers, air traffic controllers, and pilots to reduce the uncertainty in operations planning, recover quickly from disruptive events, maintain high throughput even in adverse weather conditions, and handle the uncertainties associated with irregular operations. Not only are we proposing innovations that improve Metroplex flight management, but we are also proposing innovations in the way aviation software is structured. In order to manage the high volume of flights in the New York airspace effectively, and simultaneously improve the arrival stream, departure stream, and surface operations, the MetroSim architecture contains a collection of different tools, some of which are analytic computations, some of which are physics-based computations, and some of which are mathematical optimization calculations, interoperating in a distributed computational environment. Finally, the architecture allows Metrosim to be adapted to any Metroplex.

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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 Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinate System (ZONE 17N) and Lambert Conformal conic projection. The specifications for the horizontal control of DFIRM data files are consistent with those required for mapping at a scale of 1:12,000.

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The Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX) has performed a coastal survey along the NY coasts of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in 2011. The data types collected include bathymetry and topographic lidar point data, true color imagery and hyperspectral imagery. The collection effort follows the coastline and extends 500m inland and 1000m offshore or to laser extinction, whichever comes first. Topographic lidar is collected with 200% coverage, yielding a nominal 1m x 1m post-spacing. Where water conditions permit, the bathymetry lidar data will have a nominal post spacing of 4m x 4m. The true color imagery will have a pixel size approximately 35cm and the hyperspectral imagery will be provided in 1m pixels containing 36 bands between 375 - 1050 nm with 19 nm bandwidth. The final data will be tied to horizontal positions, provided in decimal degrees of latitude and longitude, and are referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). Vertical positions are referenced to the NAD83 ellipsoid and provided in meters. The National Geodetic Survey's (NGS) GEOID03 model is used to transform the vertical positions from ellipsoid to orthometric heights referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). Once converted to orthometric heights, the data are then converted to the International Great Lakes Datum of 1985 (IGLD85) using the VDatum program from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).

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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 Nebraska State Plane Feet 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.

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The Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office (MMCO) is releasing an analysis of trends in Medicare-Medicaid enrollee population and demographic characteristics from 2006 through 2011. This builds on the Medicare-Medicaid Enrollee State Profiles we issued in 2012, which provided an overview of this populations demographic characteristics as well as utilization, cost, chronic conditions and the programs that serve them in each state. In this report, MMCO counted the number of beneficiaries who were ever-enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid (Medicare-Medicaid enrollees, also known as dual eligible beneficiaries) for one or more months over the course of each calendar year. This report focuses only on eligibility and enrollment numbers and as a result is based off of much more recent data.

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NOAA CoastWatch distributes science quality Ekman current (in zonal, meridional, and modulus sets) and Ekman upwelling data. This data begins with wind velocity measurements from the SeaWinds instrument onboard NASA's QuikSCAT satellite. SeaWinds is a microwave scatterometer designed to measure surface winds over the global ocean. NOAA CoastWatch processes wind velocity to wind stress and wind stress curl, and finally to Ekman current and Ekman upwelling.

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IT Configuration Management: eReqs is a multi-phase, web-based enterprise system that allows federal and state users to submit requests for application enhancement, application modification and application defect resolution.

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The purpose of this report is to create a baseline inventory of all nonmotorized trails on Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge. Trails in this inventory are eligible for funding under the Refuge Roads Program SAFETEALU. The report describes all the attributes e.g., location, surface type, condition, distance of trails in the FWS asset inventory.