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Minimum Documentation Standards for FIM Libraries

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Survey results for yellow-billed Cuckoo occupancy and nesting in xeroriparian habitat in southeastern Arizona from 2013 through 2020

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Landsat Captures Mexico's Trending Drought (Image of the Week)

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Standards for documenting and monitoring bird reintroduction projects

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Guidelines and standard procedures for studies of ground-water quality; selection and installation of wells, and supporting documentation

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Title page from WBD Standards TM11-a3 publication Version 5

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Improved 206Pb/238U microprobe geochronology by the monitoring of a trace-element-related matrix effect; SHRIMP, ID-TIMS, ELA-ICP-MS and oxygen isotope documentation for a series of zircon standards

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Development of spatial data guidelines and standards: spatial data set documentation to support hydrologic analysis in the U.S. Geological Survey

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Documentation for assessment of modal pushover-based scaling procedure for nonlinear response history analysis of "ordinary standard" bridges

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Content Specifications to Enable USGS Transition to ISO Metadata Standard

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Great Lakes Water Authority Detroit Regional Water Quality Monitoring Program

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North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) Mobile Acoustic Transect Surveys Standard Operating Procedure 2—Field Season and Survey Preparation

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Standards and Specs

About the NGP Standards and Specifications Team

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Review of USGS Open-file Report 95-525 ("Cartographic and digital standard for geologic map information") and plans for development of Federal draft standards for geologic map information

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North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) mobile acoustic transect surveys standard operating procedure 1—Locating and establishing mobile transect routes

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Federal standards and procedures for the National Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)

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Federal standards and procedures for the National Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)

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Interpreting the ASTM 'content standard for digital geospatial metadata'

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A standard operating procedure for the preparation of purposely killed juvenile salmon used to test survival model assumptions

Reference Materials

USGS Lidar Error Dictionary v.3.1

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The United States Board on Geographic Names: Standardization or regulation?

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Documentation of model input and output values for simulation of pumping effects in Paradise Valley, a basin tributary to the Humboldt River, Humboldt County, Nevada

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3D Elevation Program (3DEP) Vertical Accuracy Error Dictionary

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Developing inter-agency templates for FAIR genetic data archiving

Supporting material

Elevation-Derived Hydrography Data Acquisition Specifications 2022 rev. A

Supporting material

Elevation-Derived Hydrography Data Acquisition Specifications 2020 rev. A

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Database tools for standardization & automation of eDNA workflows

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Regression equations for estimating the 4-day, 3-year low-flow frequency and adjusted harmonic mean streamflow at ungaged sites for unregulated, perennial streams in New Mexico

Methods, protocols, and procedures

Lidar Base Specification 2020 rev. A

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Elevation-Derived Hydrography Data Acquisition Specifications 2021 rev. A

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