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We propose a new approach for to the design and fabrication of miniaturized Interferometric Fiber Optical Gyroscope (FOG) that enables the production of smaller IRU with enhanced performance. The size and performance limitations of the standard FOG are being reduced due to the utilization of highly integrated approach of all the gyro components. Specifically, the ASE light source and the receivers, splitters and TIA are all incorporated in a small, robust silicon/silica platform using hybrid integration. In addition, the sensor is using an innovative new coil design and high performance miniaturized IOC that results in tenfold reduction of the bias temperature sensitivity compared to the existing FOG products. The combination of these attributes supports a smaller, lower cost, high performance and robust IRU that can serve future NASA mission needs.

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This map shows the potential current distribution of Ferruginous Hawk, in the context of current and near-term terrestrial intactness and long-term potential for climate change and energy development.

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Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It is operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world.

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The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program conducts a semi-annual mail survey designed to produce estimates of employment and wages for specific occupations. The OES program collects data on wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in order to produce employment and wage estimates for about 800 occupations. Data from self-employed persons are not collected and are not included in the estimates. The OES program produces these occupational estimates by geographic area and by industry. Estimates based on geographic areas are available at the National, State, Metropolitan, and Nonmetropolitan Area levels. The Bureau of Labor Statistics produces occupational employment and wage estimates for over 450 industry classifications at the national level. The industry classifications correspond to the sector, 3-, 4-, and 5-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industrial groups. More information and details about the data provided can be found at http://www.bls.gov/oes

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This report details VA expenditures at the state, county, and Congressional District level. It includes categories such as Compensation and Pension, Construction, Insurance, and Medical Care. Veteran population estimates and the number of unique patients who used VA health care services are also available.

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Stores management information for the debt management process.

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The objective of this project was to assess the influx of nutrients and solid material into Back Bay and its tributaries during and immediately following such storm events. The Back Bay Stormwater Monitoring Project is a cooperative project supported by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service USFWS Virginia Field Office, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge BBNWR, and Old Dominion University. Water samples were collected at seven sites along the shore of Back Bay and its tributaries from July 1994 to June 1995. One test site was located at or near the inflow of each of the four primary tributaries See Study Area Description. In addition, a test site was located near the residentially developed region on the eastern margin of the Bay. Two control sites were located on BBNWR land along the southeastern shore of the Bay, away from all primary sources of allocthonous input Figure 1.

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Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Overseas Refugee Arrival Data FY 2011 sorted by country of origin and state of initial resettlement in the United States.

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This is a federally mandated sales log which collects information on sales of raw coral, including weight and revenue. Also includes seller and buyer information. The date of sale is not so useful; since the industry stockpiles the coral then sells it at a later date mixing up the catches. Data is from 2000 only. This log may have replace the older Western Pacific Precious Coral Sales Log which collected data in 1988-1989,

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Query for U.S. Treasury marketable securities data.

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This map presents summaries of conservation elements by reporting unit (HUC5) alongside terrestrial intactness and long-term potential for change. This includes the NatureServe Species Summary dataset.

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<p><u><strong>OBJECTIVES</strong></u></p><p>NASA has a strong program of exploration, technology development, and scientific research, in which satellite missions play a pivotal role.  The continued growth, success, and sustainability of the agency hinge on its ability to efficiently manage existing assets in space, as well as plan for future missions both manned and robotic.  With such substantial investments being made by the agency, significant space environment specification and forecasting capabilities are clearly needed to not only safeguard NASA’s current and future missions, but also maximize the scientific return of these missions. Existing space weather resources provide global and large-scale environmental information, but presently there are no highly-tailored services that target specific missions, specific orbits, or specific locations in space for any given time period.  This critical agency challenge is documented in a report commissioned by NASA’s Innovative Partnership Program entitled Space Weather Information System Requirements for NASA Robotic Missions, Pulkkinen (2010).</p><p>We will build a software system to assist NASA robotic missions operators that will allow users to select a specific spacecraft and/or orbit of interest, and be presented with an interface displaying space environmental conditions for the selected spacecraft, orbit, and time.  The system will also provide automated and customizable alert functionality, allowing users to define individual threshold and alert criteria, and be notified whenever events of interest are detected for any specific mission/orbit.  To help assist in spacecraft anomaly resolution, as well as mission planning and design, our system will also allow users to identify and flag specific time periods and locations. This will enable our system to build and archive a catalog of anomalous events that can later be utilized to identify space-weather-related spacecraft anomalies.  Figure 1 illustrates the <strong>SEA<sup>5</sup></strong> interface as it displays space environment and anomaly information tailored to the currently selected spacecraft.</p><p>Furthermore, <strong>SEA<sup>5</sup></strong> will illustrate a spacecraft’s proximity to boundaries separating regions with different environmental conditions, such as the Earth’s magnetopause and auroral boundaries.  Regions with enhanced space weather activity encompassing current or expected spacecraft locations will be clearly identified: for example, users could be informed of projected Coronal Mass Ejection paths or regions with enhanced ionospheric scintillation.  In practice, a user accessing the <strong>SEA<sup>5</sup></strong> interface would either select a specific mission from the catalog or input their own unique mission portfolio, subsequently obtaining a customized display of present space weather parameters, predicted levels of activity, impending solar storms, expected impacts, cumulative exposure, etc. for that particular mission and time selection.  Mission planners will be able to select a virtual mission, and simulate the specific space weather environment the spacecraft would be exposed to as if it were in orbit. This project will take full advantage of our team’s extensive experience with designing flexible interfaces for space weather visualizations that are readily accessible to researchers and non-experts alike.</p><p>GSFC has unique space weather modeling capabilities, highly specialized in-house technical expertise, and direct access to an abundance of data resources, which collectively and uniquely position the Center to provide an unrivaled capability for optimizing return from and reducing risk for all missions.  We anticipate immediate benefits for NASA as a whole, and ultimately for anyone interested in tailored space environment information for specific spacecraft and/or orbits (e.g., DoD).   Interest in this capability is routinely expressed thought the community, and reiterated annually at the NASA Robotic Mission Operator Workshop hosted at GSFC.</p>

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The Mesa Verde National Park Vegetation Map Database was developed as a primary product in the Mesa Verde National Park Vegetation Classification, Distribution, and Mapping project. The map database maps vegetation at three levels of thematic organization at the park: the base, group, and management map classes. Most of the base map classes represent plant communities identified to National Vegetation Classification associations. The associated report, Vegetation Classification and Distribution Mapping Report: Mesa Verde National Park, describes in detail the methods used to develop the map database and map classes. The project was sponsored by the USA-National Vegetation Mapping Program and the National Park Service (NPS) Southern Colorado Plateau Network and the work was executed by a multi-agency and organizational team. The vegetation map database covers the park and an approximately 1 kilometer buffer around the park boundary.

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United States Army Installation Management Command news and information.

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This Comprehensive Conservation Plan CCP was written to guide management on Kodiak NWR for the next 15 years. This plan outlines the Refuge vision and purpose and describes how Kodiak NWR will contribute to the overall mission of the Refuge System. The plan provides an introduction to the Refuge, an overview of the CCP process, alternatives, a description of the affected environment, environmental consequences, strategies for implementation and monitoring, and consultation with others. Key planning issues include: hunting, access, fishing, land acquisition, law enforcement, and permits.

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Dewberry collected LiDAR for ~3,341 square miles in various Virginia Counties, a part of Worcester County, and Hoopers Island. The acquisition was performed by Terrapoint. This metadata covers the LiDAR produced for the Virginia Counties North project area. The nominal pulse spacing for this project is 1.6 ft (0.5 meters). This project was collected with a sensor which collects intensity values for each discrete pulse extracted from the waveform. GPS Week Time, Intensity, Flightline and echo number attributes were provided for each LiDAR point. Dewberry used proprietary procedures to classify the LAS according to contract specifications: 1-Unclassified, 2-Ground, 7-Noise, 9-Water, 10-Ignored Ground due to breakline proximity, and 11-Withheld (Reclassed to 15). Dewberry produced 3D breaklines and combined these with the final LiDAR data to produce seamless hydro flattened DEMs for the 2,140 tiles (5000 ft x 5000 ft) that cover the project area. This collection has been divided into 2 parts (North and South), due to a portion of the data being collected in two zones: Virginia State Plane North 4501 and Virginia State Plane South 4502.

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Single-beam bathymetry data along with Loran-C RHO-RHO and GPS navigation data was collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey cruise F-7-90-NC. The cruise was conducted in the Gulf of Farallones, Northern California from July 19 to August 3, 1990. The chief scientists were Herman Karl and Dave Drake from the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology office in Menlo Park, CA and Bill Schwab from the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology office in Woods Hole, Mass. The purpose of this cruise was a slope stability survey of the Farallones Escarpment. The geophysical sources were 10 kilohertz (kHz), 4.5 kHz, and 3.5 kHz systems. These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/f/f790nc/html/f-7-90-nc.meta.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.

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Ridgetop Group will design a high-speed, low-power silicon germanium (SiGe)-based, analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to be a key element for digital beam forming (DBF) systems that are used in NASA's future radar missions. The ADC will employ a novel combination of time interleaving, high-speed bipolar technology and low-power techniques, such as the double-sampling technique, providing exceptional sampling speed of 500 MSPS,12 bits of resolution and very low, 100mW power dissipation. Ordinarily, ADC design requires large trade-offs in speed, resolution, and power consumption. The significance of this innovation is that it simultaneously provides a high-speed, high-resolution, and low-power ADC that is well ahead of the state-of-the-art. These three characteristics are needed for DBF systems that contain large ADC arrays. The power consumption of existing ADC chips prohibits implementation of large DBF arrays in space. Ridgetop's innovative design leverages newer semiconductor process technologies that combine silicon and germanium into a compound semiconductor.

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This annual narrative report for Benton Lake, Willow Creek, Pishkun outlines Refuge accomplishments during the 1965 calendar year. The report begins by summarizing the weather conditions, habitat conditions, water conditions, and food and cover conditions during the year. Wildlife including migratory birds, upland game birds, big game animals, predators, rodents, mammals, and raptors is also covered. The Refuge development and maintenance section discusses physical developments, plantings, collections and receipts, and prescribed burning. Resource management is outlined; topics include grazing. The public relations section of the report describes recreational uses, Refuge visitors, Refuge participation, violations and safety. Items of interest, NR forms, and photographs are attached.

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The Grayscale Shaded Relief of Hawaii map layer is a 100-meter resolution grayscale shaded relief image of Hawaii, 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 Hawaii 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 .

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This map presents summaries of conservation elements by reporting unit (4KM) alongside terrestrial intactness and long-term potential for change. This includes additional dataset focused on non-designated/non-urban lands, and non-designated/non-urban areas on BLM lands.

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Real-time Aeroelastic Measurement System (RAMS) for in-Flight Flutter Testing Project

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This Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) LAS dataset is a topographic survey conducted for a coalition of GIS practitioners, including the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM), Florida Water Management Districts, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District, and other state and federal agencies. The goal for this project is to use the LiDAR data as new elevation inputs for updated SLOSH data grids. The ultimate result is the update of the Regional Hurricane Evacuation Studies (RHES) for the state. The State of Florida Division of Emergency Management LiDAR Survey was collected under the guidance of a Professional Mapper/Surveyor. This is a classified lidar data set, bare-earth points (class 2), noise points (class 7), water returns (class 9), and unclassified data (class 1). Class 12 contains LiDAR points removed from the overlap region between adjacent flight lines. The LiDAR data was flown at a density sufficient to support a maximum final post spacing of 4 feet for unobscured areas. This data set is a collection of smaller project areas collected at different times in southwest Florida. Specifically, the data were collected within portions of Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, Collier, and Monroe. In the original project 2 sections of Pasco county were used: data collection in 2004 as well as a small coastal section in 2008. These have been removed and designated as individual projects named 2004 Pasco - Classified and 2008 Coastal Pasco respectively. The dates of collection are: Project Area B: 20070706-20070810 Project Area C: 20070706-20070810 Project Area D: 20070717-20070729 Project Area E: 20070717-20070708 Project Area F: 20070618-20070806 Project Area G: 20070612-20070630, 20070702, 20070714, 20070804-20070805 Project Area H: 20070615-20070629 Lee Buy Up: 20070811-20070824 Sarasota Buy Up: 20070828-20070830 A graphic of the footprint of the project areas may be accessed at: ftp://coast.noaa.gov/pub/DigitalCoast/lidar1_z/geoid12a/data/529/supplemental/fdem_sw.tif A shapefile of the footprint of the project areas may be downloaded at: ftp://coast.noaa.gov/pub/DigitalCoast/lidar1_z/geoid12a/data/529/supplemental/fdem_sw.zip A footprint of this entire FDEM southwest Florida project area may be viewed in Google Earth at: ftp://coast.noaa.gov/pub/DigitalCoast/lidar1_z/geoid12a/data/529/supplemental/FDEM_Lidar_Southwest_Florida.kmz

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This API provides data back to 1990 and projections annually, monthly, and quarterly for 18 months. It provides data on economic output, income, expenditures, employment, production and price indexes. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm

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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.