Hudson River Watershed Internet Map Service

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USGS Stream Gauging Stations (samples)

National Atlas  http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html

Metadata http://nationalatlas.gov/realstam.html

Examples of USGS real-time stream gauging stations within the Hudson River Watershed. Contains a hotlink field within the shape file which will allow the user to link to real time stream flow levels directly from the USGS site.


Detailed Hydrology – Linear Features

USGS National Hydrological Dataset http://nhd.usgs.gov/data.html 

Metadata http://rmmcweb.cr.usgs.gov/public/nmpstds/nhdstds.html

Rivers, streams, and other linear hydrological features falling within the Hudson River Watershed.


Detailed Hydrology – Polygon Features

USGS National Hydrological Dataset http://nhd.usgs.gov/data.html 

Metadata http://rmmcweb.cr.usgs.gov/public/nmpstds/nhdstds.html

Lakes, ponds, oceans and other hydrological features with polygon attributes falling within the Hudson River Watershed.


Roads

ESRI Data CD 2002 http://www.esri.com/data/datacd02.html

Metadata http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/datamaps2002.pdf

Combined Major Roads Files from NY, NJ, CT, VT, MA, clipped to Hudson River Watershed boundary


Counties within the Hudson River Watershed

National Atlas   http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html 

Metadata http://nationalatlas.gov/countiesm.html

Counties (NY, NJ, CT, MA, VT) falling within the Hudson River Watershed


State Boundaries

National Atlas   http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html

Metadata http://nationalatlas.gov/statesm.html

Boundaries of States within the Hudson River Watershed region.


Major Watersheds

National Atlas   http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html 

Metadata http://nationalatlas.gov/hucsm.html 

Also called Hydrological Unit Boundaries with corresponding Hydrological Unit Codes (HUC), from the USGS national system Polygons covering the watersheds for the main rivers of the Northeastern US.


Hudson River Watershed

National Atlas   http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html 

Metadata http://nationalatlas.gov/hucsm.html 

Drainage Basins with Regional and Sub-Regional watershed Hydrological Unit Codes (HUC) for waters draining into the Hudson River, including the Mohawk River, upstate NY.

Landsat 7 ETM Image Link

USGS Landsat 7 Project   http://landsat7.usgs.gov/wrsprshape.php

Metadata http://landsat7.usgs.gov/wrsprshape.php

Polygon Row\Path file indicating the footprints for particular, repeated Landsat 7 ETM+ (and Landsat 5) satellite image coverage areas. Based on the USGS’s Landsat Word Reference System II (WRS-2), hotlinks within the shape file will allow one to view the Landsat 7 ETM satellite data archive stored within the USGS Global Visualization Browse: Glovis http://glovis.usgs.gov/, for the area corresponding to the particular polygon region “clicked on” within the Map Window. Landsat 5 and ASTER data can also be browsed from within the Glovis site (by changing the Sensor Selection window, for virtually any location on our planet.


Hudson River MagnetometryImage  

Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia University http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/Hudson/

Metadata: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/Hudson/articles/article5.html

Image showing magnetic anomaly reading intensity for a section of the Hudson River. Part of Lamont Doherty’sHudson River Benthic Mapping Project(see metadata link above) Described in detail in: "Geophysical survey of the Hudson River - Tallman Park, Palisades, New York to 59th street, Manhattan, New York" Bell, R., Nitsche, F. O., Carbotte, S., Ryan, W.B., Studinger, Slagle, A., Kenna, T. and Chillrud, S. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University July 12, 2002

Landsat 5 TM Image – 4/28/89 WRS Scene 14/31

Towson University – Chesapeake Bay and Mid-Atlantic Region Assessment

Source and Metadata: http://chesapeake.towson.edu/data/land_data.asp

Landsat 5 Thematic mapper image, bands 4,5,2 acquired April 28, 1989


Landsat 5 TM Image – 10/16/87 WRS Scene 14/30

Towson University – Chesapeake Bay and Mid-Atlantic Region Assessment

Source and Metadata: http://chesapeake.towson.edu/data/land_data.asp

Landsat 5 Thematic mapper image, bands 4,5,2 acquired October 16, 1987


Shaded Relief

Image generated by CIESIN from USGS 250m (~1 degree or 3 arc second) digital elevation data from

http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/dem.html
http://edc.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/guide/1_dgr_demfig/states.html

Relevant sections (quadrangles, by state) were mosaiced, subset and colorized, to depict areas of higher and lower elevation.


USGS – National Land Cover Data

USGS NALC 1997-2000 (re-sampled to 90m)

http://edc.usgs.gov/products/landcover.html
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/landcover/states/
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/landcover/states/new_york_readme.txt (sample documentation for NYS).

21 Class Land Use\Land Cover data resampled from 30 m to 90m. To see Legend, click on USGS LULC Legend button.



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