NCCOS Assessment: Underwater Video for Ground Validation and Accuracy Assessment of Benthic Habitat Maps of the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2010-03-20 to 2017-02-10

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
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/50381
0 NCCOS Data Collections: Benthic Habitat Mapping https://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/collections/benthic/default.aspx
0 NCCOS Research Project Webpage: Developing a Benthic Habitat Map for the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/habitat-map-insular-shelf-south-of-st-thomas-st-john/
0 Online directory containing video files. https://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/biomapper_explorer/index.php?path=b1Awa3pNeUl0Y0JHMnlTZlk5dHlIM0FTTXFtZXh5bGdPdkhZZEdLdTh2OD0=
0 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 https://doi.org/10.7289/V5930RFV
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 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. https://maps.coastalscience.noaa.gov/biomapper/biomapper.html?id=insular
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/nccos/dmp/pdf/50381.pdf
8 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). https://nccospublicstor.blob.core.windows.net/biomapper/usviinsularshelf2017/documentation/InsularShelf2017_GVAA_DataIndex.csv
23 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. https://gis.ngdc.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/nccos/BenthicMapping_USVIInsularShelf2017/MapServer
8 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). https://nccospublicstor.blob.core.windows.net/biomapper/usviinsularshelf2017/documentation/InsularShelf2017_GVAA_DataIndex.csv
0 Online directory containing video files. https://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/biomapper_explorer/index.php?path=b1Awa3pNeUl0Y0JHMnlTZlk5dHlIM0FTTXFtZXh5bGdPdkhZZEdLdTh2OD0=
0 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 https://doi.org/10.7289/V5930RFV
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/50381
0 NCCOS Data Collections: Benthic Habitat Mapping https://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/collections/benthic/default.aspx
0 NCCOS Research Project Webpage: Developing a Benthic Habitat Map for the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/habitat-map-insular-shelf-south-of-st-thomas-st-john/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/nccos/dmp/pdf/50381.pdf
23 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. https://gis.ngdc.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/nccos/BenthicMapping_USVIInsularShelf2017/MapServer
0 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. https://maps.coastalscience.noaa.gov/biomapper/biomapper.html?id=insular

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  • st. john (18n064w0011)
  • united states of america
  • nccos research priority
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • aquatic habitat
  • virgin islands
  • nccos research location
  • nccos research topic
  • corals
  • benthic habitat
  • benthic
  • national ocean service
  • ecosystems
  • st. thomas (18n064w0033)
  • geospatial
  • culebra
  • national centers for coastal ocean science
  • biosphere
  • photographic analysis
  • usvi
  • habitat mapping
  • oceans
  • virgin islands coral reef national monument
  • vieques island
  • leeward islands
  • geographic area
  • noaa
  • caribbean sea
  • st. john
  • culebra island (18n065w0011)
  • marine ecosystems
  • st. thomas
  • habitats
  • atlantic ocean
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • u.s. caribbean
  • bathymetry/seafloor topography
  • virgin passage
  • ocean
  • nccos research data type
  • nccos data collection
  • marine spatial ecology (mse)
  • region
  • doc/noaa/nos/nccos
  • vieques
  • noaa ship nancy foster
  • hind bank marine conservation district
  • u.s. states and territories
  • reef habitat
  • pr
  • ocean basin
  • coastal ocean
  • caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
  • nccos habitatâ mappingâ team
  • grammanik bank marine conservation district
  • u.s. virgin islands
  • hard seafloor substrate
  • puerto rico
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • u. s. virgin islands
  • mapping
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  • north atlantic ocean
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  • videography
  • vieques island (18n065w0002)

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