Ground Validation Drop Camera Transect Points - St. Thomas/ St. John USVI - 2011 (NCEI Accession 0131858)
Description
This shapefile denotes the location of underwater video that was collected by NOAA scientists using a SeaViewer drop camera system. Video were collected between 03/28/2011 and 04/16/2011 at locations within two selected areas of seafloor south of St. Thomas and St. John, USVI and east of Vieques, Puerto Rico. These videos will be manually classified into different habitat classes, and integrated with the abiotic data collected by the acoustic SoNAR (sound navigation and ranging) systems to develop a benthic habitat map for the U.S. Caribbean. Habitat maps describe the location of habitat features (in relation to the shoreline), their physical composition and the types of organisms that colonize them. Fundamentally, habitat maps provide critical information about the extent, health and composition of marine resources, which is vital for communicating information about the distribution and abundance of species to resource managers, scientists and the public. Habitat maps also support an increasing number of landscape ecology studies, as well as the process of marine spatial planning, including the design and evaluation of marine protected areas (MPAs).
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Tags
- st. john (18n064w0011)
- united states of america
- reef monitoring and assessment
- virgin islands
- coral reef
- corals
- st. thomas (18n064w0033)
- biosphere
- usvi
- habitat mapping
- vieques island
- leeward islands
- m053 mapping essential fish habitat within habitat areas of particular concern (hapcs) in the u.s. c
- caribbean sea
- lesser antilles
- culebra island
- st. john
- culebra island (18n065w0011)
- st. thomas
- u. s. virgin islands (17n064w0000)
- habitats
- atlantic ocean
- earth science
- biological cover
- submerged aquatic vegetation
- zone
- 20675
- benthic habitats
- vieques
- us virgin islands
- geomorphological structure
- ground validation
- ocean basin
- caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
- reef
- puerto rico
- zoology
- u. s. virgin islands
- mapping
- coris_metadata
- geographic information
- country/territory
- unconsolidated sediments
- transect
- vieques island (18n065w0002)