BBield

Every data page in one place

The data. And the data underneath the data.

Two catalogs. Bield's per-vertical data products live in Hunt, Fish, and Farm — rut dates, frost dates, hatch calendars, SST thresholds, livestock breeds, regulations. Each one is built on top of the federal data stack below: USGS, NOAA, USDA, NHD, and the rest. Both layers are surfaced here.

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Bield data products

19

Federal data sources

9

Federal agencies

50

States covered

By app

Bield's data products.

Deep content pages built by Bield on top of federal feeds. Each links into Hunt, Fish, or Farm where the data lives in context.

Bield: Hunt·5 data products
Open Bield: Hunt
Bield: Fish·7 data products
Open Bield: Fish
Bield: Farm·4 data products
Open Bield: Farm

The federal data stack underneath

We don't resell data. We self-host it.

Every layer below is public-domain federal data, processed on our own infrastructure (Hetzner + Cloudflare R2) and rendered without a tile-vendor middle layer. Each dataset has its own landing page with coverage, refresh cadence, and the Bield features it drives.

terrain

Terrain & elevation

Ground-truth land shape — slope, aspect, contours, hillshade — sourced from federal LiDAR programs.

  • Detailed

    USGS

    USGS 3DEP LiDAR-derived terrain

    Bare-earth elevation that sees through the canopy.

    The USGS 3D Elevation Program publishes airborne LiDAR scans of the United States, processed to bare-earth elevation, canopy height, and derived layers at 10m and finer resolu…

    4 apps use thisOpen
  • USGS

    USGS topographic contours

    Tri-resolution contour lines, rendered from 3DEP elevation.

    Vector contour lines derived from USGS 3DEP elevation at 100ft, 40ft, and 20ft intervals. Rendered server-side so contours stay sharp at every zoom without round-tripping to a…

    1 app uses thisOpen
  • USGS

    USGS rendered hillshade

    Photorealistic terrain shading.

    Multi-direction hillshade tiles generated from USGS 3DEP. Three azimuths blended (315°, 270°, 45°) so terrain reads naturalistic without the harsh single-light look of stock r…

    1 app uses thisOpen

water

Hydrography & marine

Rivers, lakes, coastlines, tides, currents, sea-surface temperature, and live USGS gauges.

  • USGS / NHDPlus

    NHD — National Hydrography Dataset

    Every river, stream, and waterbody, classified.

    The federal vector dataset of US hydrography — flowlines, waterbodies, and the topology that connects them. Powers river-system pages and water layers across Hunt, Fish, and Farm.

    2 apps use thisOpen
  • USGS Water Services

    USGS river gauges (live)

    Live flow, stage, and temperature from every USGS station.

    Real-time and historical USGS gauge data, synced hourly to Bield's backend so river pages always show current conditions without an external API round-trip on every page view.

    2 apps use thisOpen
  • USGS

    USGS lake bathymetry

    Federal lake depth contours and structural data.

    Lake-depth contour datasets where USGS or partner agencies have published surveys. Combined with NHD waterbody polygons for the Fish bathymetry layer.

    1 app uses thisOpen
  • NOAA Office of Coast Survey

    NOAA marine charts

    Federal nautical charts for saltwater environments.

    NOAA ENC (Electronic Navigational Chart) tiles for US coastal waters — depth soundings, hazards, channels, aids to navigation. The Bield: Fish saltwater basemap.

    1 app uses thisOpen
  • NOAA CO-OPS

    NOAA tides & currents

    Live tide stage and current speed from every NOAA station.

    Real-time and predicted tide and current data from the NOAA CO-OPS station network. Drives the tide guide and current-aware bite prediction in Bield: Fish.

    2 apps use thisOpen
  • NOAA CoastWatch

    NOAA sea surface temperature

    Satellite SST for offshore pattern recognition.

    Daily NOAA CoastWatch sea surface temperature composites at 1km resolution, with species-specific threshold overlays for Bield: Fish.

    1 app uses thisOpen

lands

Public lands & parcels

PAD-US federal/state ownership polygons and county-grade private parcel boundaries.

  • USGS Gap Analysis Project

    PAD-US public lands

    Every public-land polygon in the United States.

    The Protected Areas Database of the United States — national forests, BLM, state forests, wildlife management areas, national parks, and the boundaries of every other federall…

    2 apps use thisOpen
  • County GIS offices (aggregated)

    County parcels

    Private parcel boundaries from county GIS.

    County-level parcel polygons aggregated from public GIS offices. Coverage hits ~80% of US counties; the remaining 20% are honest gaps with no fake polygons drawn.

    1 app uses thisOpen

soil

Soil & agronomy

USDA per-field soil profiles, growing zones, and aerial imagery for boundary mapping.

  • USDA NRCS

    USDA SSURGO soil profiles

    Per-field soil type, capability class, drainage, and properties.

    The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Survey Geographic database — every map unit, every horizon, every property the federal soil survey has captured for workin…

    2 apps use thisOpen
  • USDA Farm Service Agency

    USDA NAIP aerial imagery

    Sub-meter aerial imagery, agricultural season.

    National Agriculture Imagery Program — leaf-on aerial imagery captured at 60cm resolution during the agricultural growing season. The Bield: Farm field-boundary mapping reference.

    1 app uses thisOpen
  • USDA

    USDA plant hardiness zones

    The 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map.

    State, county, and ZIP-level zone assignments from the 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Wired into crop calendar and variety recommendations.

    2 apps use thisOpen

weather

Weather & climate

NOAA climate normals, frost-date probabilities, live station feeds, and WeatherKit per-trip auto-capture.

  • NOAA NCDC

    NOAA climate normals (1991–2020)

    30-year frost-date probability and growing-degree-day baselines.

    The NOAA 1991–2020 US Climate Normals — 30-year averages for temperature, precipitation, and derived agricultural indicators. The statistical backbone of Bield: Farm's frost-d…

    2 apps use thisOpen
  • NOAA NWS

    NOAA live weather stations

    County-level real-time and forecast feeds.

    NOAA National Weather Service station data — real-time observations and short-range forecasts pulled per-county for Bield: Farm's current-conditions and decision-window views.

    1 app uses thisOpen
  • Apple WeatherKit

    WeatherKit (per-trip auto-capture)

    Conditions auto-stamped on every Hunt sit, Fish trip, Farm log entry.

    Apple WeatherKit returns hyper-local conditions for any lat/long. Bield queries it at the moment a hunt, trip, or log entry is created so the conditions get stamped automatica…

    3 apps use thisOpen

wildlife

Wildlife & hazards

NIFC active fires, state agency stocking schedules, and the in-development CWD / WMU layers.

  • National Interagency Fire Center

    NIFC active fire perimeters

    Live wildfire perimeters refreshed hourly.

    NIFC active wildfire perimeters and year-to-date fire history. Critical for Hunt access decisions in the Mountain West and California. Pulled on an hourly Bield cron.

    1 app uses thisOpen
  • State fish & game departments

    State stocking schedules

    Weekly trout stocking from state agencies.

    Aggregated state-by-state trout stocking schedules. Each state's data is pulled, normalized, and cross-referenced with NHD river segments so Bield: Fish can show "Stocked here…

    1 app uses thisOpen

Federal partners

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