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Through application of a nearest-neighbor imputation approach, mapped estimates of forest carbon density were developed for the contiguous United States using the annual forest inventory conducted by the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, MODIS satellite imagery, and ancillary geospatial datasets. This data product contains the following 8 raster maps: total forest carbon in all stocks, live tree aboveground forest carbon, live tree belowground forest carbon, forest down dead carbon, forest litter carbon, forest standing dead carbon, forest soil organic carbon, and forest understory carbon. The paper on which these maps are based may be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0004 Access to full metadata and other information can be accessed here: http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0004

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The GHRC is the data management and user services arm of the Global Hydrology and Climate Center. It encompasses the data and information management, supporting product generation, archival, and distribution of research quality and operational datasets for a variety of data types, including lightning, passive microwave, radar and others.

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This proposal describes the continued development of passive, orthogonal frequency coded (OFC) surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors and multi-sensor systems, an enabling technology for remote wireless sensing of temperature, pressure, and a range of other measurands, for application to space explorations' demanding environments. Phase I demonstrated the technical feasibility of the OFC approach to produce passive solid-state SAW sensors that can be interrogated remotely using RF signals, and that respond with a signal that encodes both the sensor's identity and temperature measurements. OFC SAW temperature sensors similar to those demonstrated in Phase I are capable of operating over temperature ranges not possible with silicon, from cryogenic to 1,000oC. The spread-spectrum nature of the system proposed herein, which consists of multiple passive OFC SAW sensors interrogated remotely using chirped RF signals, provides increased processing gain and greater communication security. The proposed Phase II effort will develop and characterize prototype OFC SAW temperature sensors targeted to selected NASA and commercial applications, and demonstrate pressure sensors. The transceiver design will be optimized given the SAW operating parameters, conventional and innovative wafer-level packaging approaches (for devices capable of withstanding extreme environments) will be developed, and a complete breadboard wireless multi-sensor system will be demonstrated.

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The Sandy Emergency Supplemental appropriations contained funds for federal and state agencies that will go to ocean and coastal mapping data acquisition. These data are needed for a variety of reasons - marine debris identification and removal, beach renourishment, engineering and repair decisions, habitat change assessments, nautical chart updates, inundation modeling, strengthening for future storms and coastal resilience... The list goes on, but the common thread is the need for OCM data to support decision-making. As the Integrated Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping, NOAA and its collaborating federal mapping agencies are collecting information on requirements and plans of Federal and state agencies for areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The goal is to ensure that the emergency supplemental funding is used to "map once, use many times." The kinds of activities we'd like to include in this Sea Sketch project are requirements AND plans in the Sandy-impacted region for: hydrographic surveys (side scan/single/multibeam); topographic, bathymetric, and topobathy lidar; digital imagery; hyperspectral, etc.

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<p> This project aims to leverage near-term high-temperature superconducting technologies to assess applicability of magnetic shielding for protecting against exposure from Solar Proton Events (SPEs) and dose reduction for Galactic Cosmic Radiation (GCR) utilizing HTS magnet technology concepts. Shield design can have substantially lower mass/power requirements than previously thought. Modeling efforts will include: (1) Modeling of realistic magnetic fields (Halbach array) utilizing full-scale finite-element methods that include fringing fields; (2) leveraging of recent plasma trapping results (Rutherford/Appleton Laboratory); (3) and if time permits, a habitat model will be included as parasitic shielding. Testing will be conducted with a magnet array for plasma trapping facilitated at Ad Astra utilizing current Space Act Agreements. The study will evaluate shorter duration missions from a power, mass, flux reduction perspective and provide an active and passive shielding mass comparison.</p>

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The Laptop Inventory Tracking System (LITS) application tracks the location and assignment of laptops in the Criminal Division. It is the primary verification tool for the ITM Laptop Coordinator and serves as a database for Section Laptop Managers.

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This map shows the location of EPA Level IV Ecoregions in the Colorado Plateau Ecoregion.

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Provides a list of all data assets maintained by the Social Security Administration.

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This digital data set defines the boundaries of the deserts of the southwestern United States. Those deserts include the Great Basin, Mojave, Colorado, and Sonoran Deserts as defined by Benson and Darrow (1981). The study by Benson and Darrow (1981) was a historical reference used to support development of the transient ground-water model of Death Valley regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS) completed in 2004 by the USGS (see "Larger Work Citation", Chapter A, page 8, for details).

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The file is comprised of instantaneous absolute values of the geomagnetic components D, H, and Z or X, Y, and Z at 1-minute intervals. These values were derived either from analog recordings (magnetograms) with the aid of semiautomatic digitizing equipment or from digital recordings made directly on magnetic tape. These data are available from about 50 observatories operated by the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Sodankayla, Iceland, Finland and France.

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The Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX) has performed a coastal survey along the Atlantic coast of NH in 2010. 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).

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State Decisions For Creating Health Insurance Exchanges, including Exchange Decision, Federal Approval Status, Structure of Exchange, and Type of Exchange.

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Monthly 2007 data at the company level on imports of crude oil and/or petroleum products into the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands other U.S. possessions, and Foreign Trade Zones located in the 50 States and DC by each importer of record. Based on Form EIA-814 data.

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<p>The purpose of this project is to develop lunar regolith based geopolymer concrete and perform differential shielding studies on various geopolymer formulations to determine if sufficient protection from radiation in space environments can be enabled. For the initial testing of these concrete matrices, a variety of locally-available radiation sources will be used. As part of the proposed work, geopolymer and ‘Lunamer’ concrete matrices will be constructed and their ability to shield radiation will be evaluated. The geopolymer matrices will be prepared using fly ash as the pre-curser, barite (BaSO4) and hematite (Fe2O3) as the aggregate and metallic chips, representing the state-of-the-art in Earth-based construction practices. The ‘Lunamer’ concrete matrices will be made using geopolymerized lunar regolith with entrained carbon fibers and carbon black for EMI shielding and metallic chips. These will include radiation energies within this range of biological interest, but will also include those of lower energies. While such low energy sources cannot be used to correlate the biological impact of high energy radiation, they do provide a useful tool to quantify the relative shielding behavior of different materials.                   </p>

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Mineral resource areas are defined as those areas with a high likelihood of containing occurrences of valuable mineral deposits. A variety of sources of minerals information were consulted in compiling a digital map of mineral resource areas for metallic minerals in the Yellowstone River Basin. Source scales varied, but were no smaller than 1:500,000. The data are intended for river-basin level assessment and general analysis and are not suitable for site-specific analyses.

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To provide the user with a general idea of areas where final critical habitat for Pecos Sunflower (Helianthus paradoxus) occur. The geographic extent includes Chaves, Cibola, Guadalupe, Socorro and Valencia Counties, New Mexico and Pecos County, Texas.

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Studies in ground-based analogs of Isolated and Confined Environments (ICE) have identified sensory monotony and social isolation as threats to crew psychological well-being. Further, the lack of real-time communications in future missions will impact crew interactions with their support systems, i.e. family, friends, and colleagues, are critical. ANSIBLE (A Network of Social Interactions for Bilateral Life Enhancement) leverages evidence based strategies to 1) augment asynchronous communications using Virtual Environments (VEs) and facilitate novel interaction methods beyond email, 2) use the inherently immersive and stimuli rich nature of VEs to counteract sensory monotony, and 3) leverages VEs and intelligent Virtual Agents (VAs) as companions and advisors to combat social monotony and detect changes in astronaut psychosocial states can increase astronaut self-awareness, suggest countermeasures, and provide rehearsal scenarios to maintain and enhance interpersonal skills. Along with Dr. Morie, SIFT will leverage its prior work with human communication models and unobtrusive detection of psychosocial dimensions, to enhance VE and VA technologies. The resulting tool will advance the future social landscape that connects the flight crew with Earth, and can be used pre, during, and post flight to connect crew and ground, providing a sense of social consistency and permanence.

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This dataset is a part of U.S. Geological Survey Central Region Energy Resources Team National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, Legacy Data Archive. The National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, (NPRA) Legacy Data Archive represents one of the largest geological and geophysical data sets held by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). From 1944 to 1953 the U.S. Navy operated a large-scale exploration of the then Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, drilling 36 test wells and 45 core tests. A second extensive exploration program was operated between 1974 and 1982. Run first by the U.S. Navy and later the USGS, this exploration program collected over 12,000 line miles of seismic data and drilled 28 exploratory wells. Both these exploration programs generated a vast amount of data, analyses, and documents, much of which is presented at http://nerslweb.cr.usgs.gov/. This web site makes available the following data types: SEG-Y format seismic data. Image files of associated seismic data documentation. Tables of seismic data field collection parameters. Seismic data location information, both ASCII text files and image files of location maps. Image files of seismic data displays. Image files of well log displays. LAS format digital well log data. Adobe Acrobat files of well data, analyses, and reports. Image files of well core slides. This NPRA Seismic lines Dataset was converted from Shot Point latitude and longitude information.

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Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping Product (IOCM). The images were acquired from a nominal altitude of 7,500 feet above ground level (AGL), using an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS). Imagery products are true color (RGB) and infrared (IR) images. The IR images were acquired with a 850 nm cut on filter. Images have been orthorectified and mosaiced to produce a seamless data set. For information about combining the IR image and the RGB image into a 4 band NIR image, please download the IOCM Band Stack Guide document at this link: ftp://www.csc.noaa.gov/temp/metadata_supp

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On Monday, January 17, 1994, an earthquake occurred that took 57 lives and caused $10 billion in property damage. This slide set includes damaged structures in more distant communities including Sylmar, Fillmore, Granada Hills, Reseda, Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, Chatsworth, Santa Monica, and Los Angeles. At 4:31 a.m. (local time) on Monday, January 17, 1994, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake twenty miles west northwest of downtown Los Angeles (34 degrees 13' N, 118 degrees 32'W) awoke nearly everyone in southern California. Damage was most extensive in the San Fernando Valley, the Simi Valley, and in the northern part of the Los Angeles Basin. After the earthquake, a total of 24,000 dwellings were vacated. The death toll from the quake was 57. The total cost of the earthquake is estimated to be at least $10 billion.The Shock - The main shock beneath the Northridge suburb occurred on a shallowly-dipping, previously unknown thrust fault. The rupture started at a depth of about twelve miles and, during the course of the main shock, traveled upward and northward, spreading both eastward and westward. Rock on south side of the fault surged upward and over the rock to the north side. As a result of the quake, the San Fernando Valley is slightly narrower and the mountains just north of the valley are slightly higher. Damage to building structures outside the epicentral area was severe, spotty in geographic distribution, and spread over a large area. Significant damage was reported as far as Fillmore in the west, Valencia in the north, and Anaheim in the south-east. The distribution of unsafe buildings was affected by the strength of the earthquake shaking, and the type and density of the construction. It was no surprise that unreinforced masonry and older concrete frame constructions suffered structural damage. However damage and collapses in newer structures particularly parking garages, commercial buildings, and apartment complexes was surprising and even alarming. The building construction community may need to reexamine implementation and enforcement of minimum code mandated performance criteria. In the northwestern San Fernando Valley, surface disruptions have been identified. A prominent zone of surface fissures also occurred across Balboa Boulevard in the Granada Hills. Several pipelines appeared to have pulled apart in approximately the same general area. Generally the accelerations for this earthquake were higher over a larger area, than one might expect for an earthquake of this size. Santa Monica, about 14.5 miles from the epicenter and across the Santa Monica Mountains was also heavily damaged. Most of the damage occurred in an east-west trending belt within the northern portion of the city, and extended westward into Pacific Palisades and eastward into west Los Angeles and Hollywood. Two hundred million dollars in damage occurred. One hundred thirty-four buildings were unsafe for occupancy and 396 others were damaged enough to limit access.Damaged Buildings - Many businesses with operations in Los Angeles were disrupted by the earthquake. Companies shut plants and offices, and more than forty retailers reported heavy damage. Apartment complexes all over the San Fernando Valley were severely damaged.Infrastructure - On Monday, the day of the quake, 680,000 in the Los Angeles area were without power, gas, or phone service. Power outages swept throughout the Los Angeles basin and were reported as far away as Alberta and British Columbia due to the load problems stemming from the quake. Forty thousand were without water. Although the phone system survived relatively intact, some long-distance services into and out of parts of Los Angeles were lost because of equipment damage and power failure. Water trunk lines were broken, and water surged down some streets. Gas from a ruptured gas line ignited, and the resulting fire destroyed several homes. Explosions from ruptured gas mains occurred in the midst of the flooding from broken water mains.Transportation - The earthquake closed several major highways and freeways. At the Fairfax, La Cienaga, and Venice Boulevard intersection with the Santa Monica Freeway, an overpass fell closing the nation's busiest freeway. Spans collapsed in the interchange between the Golden State Freeway (I-5) and the Antelope Valley Freeway (SR-14), in the northern San Fernando Valley. A motorcycle police officer died in a fall off broken highway slab. Rock slides closed roads to Malibu Canyon and Topanga Canyon. The highway and freeway collapses nearly isolated some communities and caused commutes of as much as four hours. A Southern Pacific train was derailed near the earthquake epicenter spilling 5,000 gallons of sulfuric acid and 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel.Hospitals - The most severe damage to health care facilities occurred in the Santa Monica area where a total of five facilities were declared unsafe. The Community Hospital in Granada Hills had to evacuate its top floors and treat people in the parking lot and in debris-strewn hallways. Three hundred people were evacuated from Veterans Administration Medical Center. At damaged Sepulveda Veterans Administration Hospital a stream of transit authority buses and private ambulances ferried 330 patients to other facilities. Three people died of quake-related heart attacks at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. The Northridge earthquake is significant since it is the most expensive earthquake and one of the most expensive natural disasters in United States history yet it occurred on a previously unknown fault.

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The GPM Ground Validation Environment Canada (EC) Visibility Sensor FD12P and Present Weather Detector GCPEx dataset collected data January 15 through March 1, 2012 in Huronia, Canada for the GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx). The FD12P combines the functions of a forward scatter visibility meter and a present weather detector. It also measures the intensity and the amount of both liquid and solid precipitation.

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Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) are computer-accessible files containing records for a sample of housing units, with information on the characteristics of each housing unit and the people in it for 1940-1990. Within the limits of sample size and geographical detail, these files allow users to prepare virtually any tabulations they require. Each datafile is documented in a codebook containing a data dictionary and supporting appendix information. Electronic versions for the codebooks are only available for the 1980 and 1990 datafiles. Identifying information has been removed to protect the confidentiality of the respondents. PUMS is produced by the United States Census Bureau (USCB) and is distributed by USCB, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).

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EDFacts Career and Technical Education 2011-12 (EDFacts CTE: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 CTE:2011-12 annually collects cross-sectional data from states about students who participate in career and technical education by subgroups of students at the LEA and SEA levels. EDFacts CTE: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 CTE:2011-12 are from 8 data groups with information on CTE Concentrators-Academic Achievement, CTE Concentrators-Exiting, CTE Concentrators-Graduates, CTE Concentrators in ESEA Graduation Rate, CTE Concentrators-Placement, CTE Concentrators-Technical Skills, CTE Concentrators-Programs for Non-Traditional, and CTE Participants-Programs for Non-Traditional. 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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EPA researchers have been using advances in computational toxicology to address lack of data on the thousands of chemicals. EPA released chemical data on 1,800 chemicals. The 1,800 chemicals were screened in more than 800 rapid, automated tests (called high-throughput screening assays) to determine potential human health effects. The data is available through the interactive Chemical Safety for Sustainability Dashboards (iCSS dashboard) and the complete data sets are also available for download.