National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Orthorectified mosaic images of a coral reef in Brewers Bay, St. Thomas USVI collected on 2023-07-26 (NCEI Accession 0300357)

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This data set contains landscape mosaic images, created as a product for the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program’s (CRCP) National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). Orthorectified mosaic images of six reef plots were captured of a coral reef in East Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Each reef plot is made up of a 10m x 10m transect area (100 m2). Landscape mosaics are a composite of many underwater images stitched together. These mosaics have the clarity and pixel size of the individual pictures but collectively produce a “landscape view” of the coral reef community within each transect. A scuba diver holds the mosaic rig, containing two separate cameras, above the transect while swimming in a lawnmower pattern creating a crosshatching design. The diver takes these underwater images about one to two meters above the seabed at a rate of one image per second per camera. This swimming technique allows the mosaic rig to gather 1500-3000 images which are then merged into a single “landscape mosaic image” file via Agisoft Photoscan® software. A total of six TIFF (.tif) files are included in this dataset, one TIFF file corresponds to one reef transect plot area.

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  • united states of america
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • aquatic habitat
  • virgin islands
  • corals
  • benthic habitat
  • st. thomas (18n064w0033)
  • brewers bay (20n064w0001)
  • in situ biological
  • biosphere
  • photographic analysis
  • 6d6gr9
  • oceans
  • leeward islands
  • linear transect (line)
  • uvi research vessel
  • caribbean sea
  • lesser antilles
  • oceanography
  • st. thomas
  • u. s. virgin islands (17n064w0000)
  • habitats
  • national coral reef monitoring program (ncrmp)
  • atlantic ocean
  • earth science
  • coral biodiversity
  • benthic biology
  • marine biology
  • coral communities
  • landscape mosaic image
  • visual images
  • benthos analysis
  • 743
  • transect monitoring
  • camera - gopro
  • reef habitat
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • agisoft photoscan software
  • coral
  • coastal processes
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • u. s. virgin islands
  • country/territory

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