Benthic Habitat Maps of the U.S. Virgin Islands-St. Thomas and St. John Prepared by Visual Interpretation from Remote Sensing Imagery Collected by NOAA, 1999

Description

This project is a cooperative effort among the National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment; the United States Geological Survey; the National Park Service; and the National Geophysical Data Center, to produce benthic habitat maps and georeferenced imagery for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This project was conducted in support of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force.Twenty-one distinct benthic habitat types within eight zones were mapped directly into a GIS system using visual interpretation of orthorectified aerial photographs. Benthic features were mapped that covered an area of 1600 km^2. In all, 49 km^2 of unconsolidated sediment, 721 km^2 of submerged vegetation, 73 km^2 of mangroves, and 756 km^2 of coral reef and colonized hardbottom were mapped.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 Online Resource http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/ccma/biogeo/benthic/vi_shp/stsj_fin.zip
0 Online Resource http://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/products/biogeography/benthic/data/
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/nccos/dmp/pdf/39207.pdf
57 Downloadable Data http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/ccma/biogeo/benthic/vi_shp/stsj_fin.zip
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/39207
0 Online Resource http://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/products/biogeography/benthic/
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords

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  • aerial photography
  • benthic
  • national ocean service
  • national centers for coastal ocean science
  • oceans
  • environmental monitoring
  • noaa
  • st. john
  • u.s. exclusive economic zone
  • st. thomas
  • oceancommunity
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • seagrass
  • mangrove
  • doc/noaa/nos/nccos
  • sav
  • coral
  • u.s. virgin islands
  • reef
  • vi_pr_benthic
  • habitat

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