Benthic cover derived from analysis of benthic images collected at coral reef sites in Batangas, Philippines from 2015-05-23 to 2015-06-03 (NCEI Accession 0162828)

Description

The benthic cover data described here result from benthic photo-quadrat surveys conducted by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) in 2015 along transects at fixed climate survey sites located on hard bottom shallow water (< 15 m) habitats in the Philippines. Climate sites were established by CREP to assess multiple features of the coral reef environment (in addition to the data described herein) over time. Benthic habitat photographs were quantitatively analyzed using a web-based annotation tool called CoralNet (Beijbom et al. 2016). Images were analyzed to produce three functional group levels of benthic cover: Tier 1 (e.g., hard coral, soft coral, macroalgae, turf algae, etc.), Tier 2 (e.g., Hard Coral = massive, branching, foliose, encrusting, etc.; Macroalgae = upright macroalgae, encrusting macroalgae, bluegreen macroalgae, and Halimeda, etc.), and Tier 3 (e.g., Hard Coral = Astreopora sp, Favia sp, Pocillopora, etc.; Macroalgae = Caulerpa sp, Dictyosphaeria sp, Padina sp, etc.). These benthic cover data for the Philippines provide an estimate of the benthic community composition at each climate survey site, and give context to the results from the other climate survey components (archived separately).

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0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0162828
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/162828
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred
0 Institution web page http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred
0 Institution web page http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred
0 Institution web page http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred
0 Institution web page http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 InPort Metadata Record https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/45819
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0111/0162828/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Institution web page http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/162828
0 O. Beijbom, P. J. Edmunds, C. Roelfsema, J. Smith, D. I. Kline, B. Neal, M. J. Dunlap, V. Moriarty, T-Y. Fan, C-J. Tan, S. Chan, T. Treibitz, A. Gamst, B. G. Mitchell, D. Kriegman. "Towards automated annotation of benthic survey images: variability of human experts and operational modes of automation". PLOS One, July 2015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130312
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 16. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords

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  • crep
  • coral cover
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • aquatic habitat
  • corals
  • benthic habitat
  • coral reef ecosystem division
  • benthic
  • pifsc
  • photograph analysis
  • in situ biological
  • verde island passage
  • biosphere
  • photographic analysis
  • oceans
  • algae
  • marine invertebrates
  • hard coral cover
  • south china sea
  • batong buhay
  • batangas
  • numeric data sets
  • algal cover
  • baseline studies
  • oceanography
  • mabini (13n120e0032)
  • quadrat monitoring
  • maricaban island
  • pacific islands fisheries science center
  • balayan bay
  • earth science
  • benthic biology
  • vegetation
  • climate
  • crustose coralline algae
  • twin rocks
  • koala reserve area
  • arthur's reef
  • batalang bato
  • marine biology
  • coral communities
  • cred
  • encrusting macroalgae
  • microbiota
  • united states agency for international development
  • benthos analysis
  • tingloy (13n120e0009)
  • philippines
  • blue-green algae
  • reef habitat
  • twin rocks sanctuary (13n120e0005)
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • coral
  • coastal processes
  • octocoral cover
  • 483
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • pacific ocean
  • usaid
  • biodiversity and fisheries in the coral triangle: embracing the e in ecosystem approaches to fisheri
  • country/territory
  • turf algae
  • arthur's rock (13n120e0002)
  • coral reef ecosystem program

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