Description
Preliminary hard and soft seafloor substrate map derived from an unsupervised classification of multibeam backscatter, bathymety derivatives, and bathymetry derived from multispectral World View-2 satellite imageryof Ni'ihau Island, Hawaii, USA . The dataset was derived using Reson 8101 backscatter data, bathymetric variance and bathymetric rugosity. The sonar frequency is 240 kHz for the Reson 8101 backscatter data, which were resampled to a 5 m grid cell size prior to the classification. Limited seafloor photographs for groundtruthing are available for Ni'ihau Island and therefore no supervised classification was performed and we are unable to visually or empirically evaluate the accuracy of the unsupervised classification seafloor substrate map.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zip File | ZIP | Nii_int_hs_5m.zip |
Tags
- 467
- backscatter
- benthic habitat mapping and characterization in the pacific islands region
- biosphere
- central pacific ocean
- coastal processes
- coral reef ecology
- coral reefs
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- geographic information
- geomorphology mapping
- habitat mapping
- habitats
- hawaii
- hawaiian islands
- kauai
- main hawaiian islands
- mapping
- niihau
- niihau island
- niihau island (21n160w0001)
- ocean basin
- oceans
- pacific ocean
- reef monitoring and assessment
- remote sensing
- rugosity
- satellite (digital scans)
- united states of america
- worldview-2
- zoology