Benthic Habitats of the Northern Mariana Archipelago Derived From IKONOS Imagery, 2001-2003

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 University of Hawaii; BAE Systems Spectral Solutions; and Analytical Laboratories of Hawaii, LLC. The goal of the work was to map the coral reef habitats of American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands by visual interpretation and manual delineation of IKONOS satellite imagery.A two tiered habitat classification system was tested and implemented in this work. It integrates geomorphologic reef structure and biological cover into a single scheme and subsets each into detail. It also includes thirteen zones. Benthic features were mapped that covered an area of 45.2 square kilometers of which 4.4 were unconsolidated sediment and 40.9 were coral reef and hard bottom. Of the coral reef and hard bottom class, 59.9% is colonized by greater than 10% coral cover.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 medinilla_habitat.zip https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/medinilla_habitat.zip
57 anatahan_habitat.zip https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/anatahan_habitat.zip
57 sarigan_habitat.zip https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/sarigan_habitat.zip
57 guguan_habitat.zip https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/guguan_habitat.zip
57 alamagan_habitat.zip https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/alamagan_habitat.zip
57 pagan_habitat.zip https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/pagan_habitat.zip
57 agrihan_habitat.zip https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/agrihan_habitat.zip
57 asuncion_habitat.zip https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/asuncion_habitat.zip
57 maug_habitat.zip https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/maug_habitat.zip
57 pajaros_habitat.zip https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/pajaros_habitat.zip

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  • guguan island
  • agrihan island (18n145e0002)
  • farallon de pajaros (20n144e0001)
  • 1209
  • western pacific ocean
  • alamagan island (17n145e0002)
  • maug
  • asuncion island (19n145e0001)
  • aquatic habitat
  • coral reef
  • guguan island (17n145e0001)
  • northern mariana islands
  • and the northern marianas
  • farallon de medinilla
  • biosphere
  • cover
  • coastal habitat
  • maug island
  • oceans
  • algae
  • structure
  • maug island (20n145e0001)
  • environmental monitoring
  • united states
  • cnmi
  • guam
  • pagan island (18n145e0001)
  • farallon de pajaros
  • habitats
  • anatahan
  • earth science
  • submerged aquatic vegetation
  • coralline algae
  • vegetation
  • zone
  • guguan
  • pagan
  • agrihan island
  • mariana islands
  • pagan island
  • reef habitat
  • asuncion island
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • anatahan island (16n145e0001)
  • coastal processes
  • mapping the shallow-water coral reef ecosystems of american samoa
  • reef
  • coral reefs
  • sarigan island (16n145e0003)
  • coris_metadata
  • pacific ocean
  • anatahan island
  • geographic information
  • habitat
  • farallon de medinilla (16n145e0002)
  • country/territory
  • unconsolidated sediments
  • alamagan island
  • sarigan island

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