NCCOS Benthic Habitats of Palau Derived From IKONOS Imagery, 2003-2006
Description
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, and Analytical Laboratories of Hawaii, LLC. The goal of the work was to map the coral reef habitats of Palau by visual interpretation and manual delineation of IKONOS satellite imagery. A two tiered habitat classification system was used in this work. The scheme integrates geomorphologic reef structure and biological cover into a single scheme and subsets each into detail. It also includes thirteen zones.
Resources
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Palau_BenthicHabitat_Map.zip |
https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/datasets/e102/data/Palau_BenthicHabitat_Map.zip |
Tags
- 1388
- western pacific ocean
- carolines
- biosphere
- cover
- oceans
- algae
- structure
- environmental monitoring
- freely associated states shallow water benthic habitat mapping
- habitats
- earth science
- submerged aquatic vegetation
- coralline algae
- vegetation
- zone
- coral reef ecology
- ocean basin
- coastal processes
- palau ( belau ) (07n134e0000)
- coral reefs
- coris_metadata
- pacific ocean
- geographic information
- country/territory
- palau
- unconsolidated sediments