Benthic Habitats of the Southern 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 |
rota_habitat.zip |
https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/rota_habitat.zip |
|
57 |
aguijan_habitat.zip |
https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/aguijan_habitat.zip |
|
57 |
tinian_habitat.zip |
https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/tinian_habitat.zip |
|
57 |
saipan_habitat.zip |
https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/data/habitats/saipan_habitat.zip |
Tags
- 1209
- tinaian
- western pacific ocean
- aquatic habitat
- coral reef
- northern mariana islands
- and the northern marianas
- biosphere
- cover
- coastal habitat
- rota island
- oceans
- algae
- structure
- rota island ( luta ) (14n145e0007)
- environmental monitoring
- united states
- aguihan island reefs
- guam
- aguihan
- habitats
- tinian island reefs
- earth science
- submerged aquatic vegetation
- coralline algae
- vegetation
- zone
- saipan island
- rota
- saipan
- aguihan island (aguijan) (14n145e0006)
- reef habitat
- coral reef ecology
- ocean basin
- coastal processes
- mapping the shallow-water coral reef ecosystems of american samoa
- saipan island (15n145e0002)
- reef
- coral reefs
- coris_metadata
- pacific ocean
- aguajan
- geographic information
- habitat
- country/territory
- tinian
- unconsolidated sediments
- tinian island (14n145e0005)