Description
The presence and absence of the four substrate and four biological cover types were documented at 1,353 locations on the insular shelf south of St. Thomas and St. John. At each location, an underwater camera system was used to collect high definition (HD) video at 30 frames per second at 1080x1920 resolution. This GIS dataset depicts the location of these underwater videos, as well as the name, location, time collected, and the presence and absence of the substrate and cover types. A portion of these underwater videos (n=1,005) were used to develop the habitat predictions and the composite habitat map. A separate subset of these underwater videos (n=348) were used to assess the performance of the habitat predictions and accuracy of the composite habitat map.
For more details, see Costa et al. 2017 and Costa et al. 2018.
Keywords: Ground Validation; Accuracy Assessment; Acropora Cervicornis; Acropora Palmata; Bathymetry; Benthic Habitat; Coastal Ocean Science; Coral Reef; Insular Shelf; Seagrass; Seaviewer; Snorkel; Trimble GeoXH; Underwater Video.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Webpage | Unknown | NCCOS Research Project Webpage: Developing a Benthic Habitat Map for the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John | Open resource |
| USVI Insular Shelf Benthic Habitat Map Data | Unknown | Costa, B., L. Kracker, T. Battista, W. Sautter, A. Mabrouk, K. Edwards, C. Taylor, and E. Ebert. 2018. NCCOS Assessment: Benthic Habitat Map for the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (NCEI Accession 0170098). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5930RFV | Open resource |
| USVI Insular Shelf MapServer Web Service | JSON | This geodatabase contains the benthic habitat maps, along with predictors and coefficients of variation for the insular shelf south of St. Thomas and St. John. Also contained within the database are the boundaries of shorelines and marine protected areas, the locations of ground validation and accuracy assessment sites, and results from fisheries acoustics surveys from the 2004-2010 Nancy Foster Seafloor mapping missions. This database will be used for the NCCOS Biomapper web mapping service which will provide users a platform to view the benthic habitat mapping layers of the Insular Shelf project. | Open resource |
| USVI Insular Shelf BIOMapper Web Application | Unknown | A free, fully interactive, user friendly, online platform designed to let users explore benthic habitat mapping data. Users can create fully customizable maps by clicking on a data layer in the table of contents and display aerial and acoustic imagery rasters, benthic habitat and geographic zone shapefiles, and ground validation/accuracy assessment video sites. Ground validation and accuracy assessment videos are available for viewing (streaming) and for download in standard or high resolution. | Open resource |
| Data Index for USVI Insular Shelf Video | CSV | Data index containing file-level documentation for all video including benthic habitat characteristics: FID; PROJECT; GEOGRAPHIC REGION; SITE TYPE; ASSESSMENT TYPE; SITE ID; DATE COLLECTED; TIME COLLECTED; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; NORTHING; EASTING; DEPTH; URL LINK; CORAL REEF; PAVEMENT; RHODOLITH; SAND; HARD CORAL; SOFT CORAL; MACROALGAE; SPONGE; SEAGRASS; ARTIFICIAL; UNKNOWN; NOTES (from the field or the data managers). | Open resource |
| USVI Insular Shelf Videos | Unknown | Online directory containing video files. | Open resource |
| Data Webpage | Unknown | NCCOS Data Collections: Benthic Habitat Mapping | Open resource |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords | Unknown | The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. | Open resource |
| Full Metadata Record | Unknown | View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. | Open resource |
| NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) | NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. | Open resource |
Tags
- aquatic habitat
- atlantic ocean
- bathymetry/seafloor topography
- benthic
- benthic habitat
- biosphere
- caribbean sea
- caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
- coastal ocean
- coral reefs
- corals
- country/territory
- culebra
- culebra island (18n065w0011)
- doc/noaa/nos/nccos
- earth science
- ecosystems
- field observation
- geographic area
- geographic information
- geospatial
- grammanik bank marine conservation district
- habitat mapping
- habitats
- hard seafloor substrate
- hind bank marine conservation district
- leeward islands
- mapping
- marine ecosystems
- marine spatial ecology (mse)
- national centers for coastal ocean science
- national ocean service
- nccos data collection
- nccos habitatâ mappingâ team
- nccos research data type
- nccos research location
- nccos research priority
- nccos research topic
- noaa
- noaa ship nancy foster
- north atlantic ocean
- ocean
- ocean basin
- oceans
- photographic analysis
- pr
- puerto rico
- reef habitat
- reef monitoring and assessment
- region
- st. john
- st. john (18n064w0011)
- st. thomas
- st. thomas (18n064w0033)
- united states of america
- u.s. caribbean
- u.s. department of commerce
- u.s. states and territories
- usvi
- u. s. virgin islands
- u.s. virgin islands
- video
- videography
- vieques
- vieques island
- vieques island (18n065w0002)
- virgin islands
- virgin islands coral reef national monument
- virgin passage
- zoology