Description
BPI Structures are derived from two scales of a focal mean analysis on bathymetry and slope. The grid is based on gridded (10 m cell size) multibeam bathymetry, collected aboard NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai and R/V AHI, and it was created using the Benthic Terrain Modeler (https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/btm.html). Cell values represent one of 14 classes in an index of seafloor terrains. This data set is for the shelf and slope environments of Farallon de Pajaros Island. As part of the northern islands of the Mariana Islands archipelago, the island's offshore shelf is above -60m. A deep shelf (below -60m) northeast of the island may be reminiscent of a second and recently active volcanic cone.
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Tags
- 1398
- bathymetric position index structures
- bathymetry
- bathymetry/seafloor topography
- benthic habitat mapping and characterization - commonwealth of the northern mariana islands and guam
- biosphere
- cnmi
- commonwealth of the northern mariana islands
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- farallon de pajaros
- farallon de pajaros (20n144e0001)
- geographic information
- geomorphology mapping
- habitats
- mapping
- multibeam sonar
- northern mariana islands
- ocean basin
- oceans
- pacific ocean
- reef monitoring and assessment
- united state of america
- uracas island
- western pacific ocean
- zoology