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 Maug Island. As part of the northern islands of the Mariana Islands archipelago, Maug's offshore shelf, though barely present at Maug, is above -60m. A deep shelf (below -60m) is inside the crater just outside of the depressions that form a moat around the post-collapse dome. Conversely, the southern islands each have a shelf (above -100m) with escarpments that lead to broad flat areas without forming a deeper shelf.
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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
- geographic information
- geomorphology mapping
- habitats
- mapping
- maug
- maug island
- maug island (20n145e0001)
- multibeam sonar
- northern mariana islands
- ocean basin
- oceans
- pacific ocean
- reef monitoring and assessment
- united state of america
- western pacific ocean
- zoology