Benthic Surveys in Aua, American Samoa: benthic cover derived from analysis of benthic images collected during belt transect surveys of coral demography from 2022-09-12 to 2022-09-22 (NCEI Accession 0275987)

Description

This data package includes benthic cover data of Aua Reef, American Samoa, produced from the analysis of benthic imagery performed by the Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) of the Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), and funded by the Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP). Benthic imagery was collected at 18 randomly-selected sites during coral demographic surveys by the NOAA ESD during the 2022 fly-in mission to American Samoa (MP2206). After processing and sorting site photos, imagery was qualitatively analyzed using the web-based CoralNet image annotation tool. CoralNet projects random points on each image, and the benthic elements falling directly underneath each point are identified by trained scientists. The source imagery analyzed to produce benthic cover estimates are archived separately with the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in NCEI Accession 0270551.

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0 NOAA Central Library: Administrative Report https://doi.org/10.7289/v5/ar-pifsc-h-17-02
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0 InPort metadata record https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/67996
0 NOAA Central Library: Administrative Report https://doi.org/10.7289/v5/ar-pifsc-h-17-02
0 NCEI Accession containing associated benthic imagery https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0270551
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0 InPort metadata record https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/67996
0 NOAA Central Library: Administrative Report https://doi.org/10.7289/v5/ar-pifsc-h-17-02
0 NCEI Accession containing associated benthic imagery https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0270551
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0 InPort metadata record https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/67996
0 NOAA Central Library: Administrative Report https://doi.org/10.7289/v5/ar-pifsc-h-17-02
0 NCEI Accession containing associated benthic imagery https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0270551
0 Institution web page https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/ecosystem_sciences/
0 Institution web page https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/ecosystem_sciences/
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0 NOAA Central Library: Administrative Report https://doi.org/10.7289/v5/ar-pifsc-h-17-02
0 NCEI Accession containing associated benthic imagery https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0270551
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  • coral cover
  • united states of america
  • american samoa (14s170w0000)
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • aquatic habitat
  • corals
  • benthic habitat
  • benthic
  • pifsc
  • biosphere
  • photographic analysis
  • oceans
  • algae
  • marine invertebrates
  • american samoa
  • hard coral cover
  • numeric data sets
  • algal cover
  • baseline studies
  • oceanography
  • coralnet
  • archipelagic research program
  • pacific islands fisheries science center
  • earth science
  • benthic biology
  • vegetation
  • fleshy macroalgae
  • c5aum3
  • crustose coralline algae
  • 31303
  • marine biology
  • land-based source pollution
  • coral communities
  • encrusting macroalgae
  • linking watershed management actions to reef health in american samoa
  • benthos analysis
  • transect monitoring
  • reef habitat
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • ecosystem sciences division
  • coral
  • aua (14s170w0010)
  • esd
  • coastal processes
  • lbsp
  • tutuila island
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • pacific ocean
  • country/territory
  • belt transect
  • turf algae
  • pago pago harbor

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