Habitat Zone, Cover and Structure Maps of the Farallon de Medinilla, Northern Mariana Archipelago 2001-2003, Derived From IKONOS Imagery

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This project is a cooperative effort between 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 Common Wealth 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
33 33_Farallon_deMedinilla_structure.pdf https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/PDFmaps/33_Farallon_deMedinilla_structure.pdf
33 46_Farallon_dePajaros_cover.pdf https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/PDFmaps/46_Farallon_dePajaros_cover.pdf
33 33_Farallon_deMedinilla_zone.pdf https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/PDFmaps/33_Farallon_deMedinilla_zone.pdf
33 46_Farallon_dePajaros_cover.pdf https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/PDFmaps/46_Farallon_dePajaros_cover.pdf
33 33_Farallon_deMedinilla_zone.pdf https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/PDFmaps/33_Farallon_deMedinilla_zone.pdf
33 33_Farallon_deMedinilla_structure.pdf https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e99/PDFmaps/33_Farallon_deMedinilla_structure.pdf

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  • 1209
  • map images
  • western pacific ocean
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • aquatic habitat
  • coral reef
  • corals
  • northern mariana islands
  • and the northern marianas
  • farallon de medinilla
  • biosphere
  • cover
  • coastal habitat
  • habitat mapping
  • oceans
  • algae
  • structure
  • united states
  • cnmi
  • guam
  • habitats
  • earth science
  • submerged aquatic vegetation
  • coralline algae
  • vegetation
  • zone
  • mariana islands
  • reef habitat
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • coastal processes
  • mapping the shallow-water coral reef ecosystems of american samoa
  • reef
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • mapping
  • coris_metadata
  • pacific ocean
  • habitat
  • farallon de medinilla (16n145e0002)
  • country/territory
  • unconsolidated sediments

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