Description
This dataset contains a point shapefile with benthic habitat classifications of vertical relief, geomorphological structure, substrate, and biological cover for selected points along various Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) underwater video transects in the US Virgin Islands.NOAA's NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Team, in collaboration with NOAA vessel Nancy Foster and territory, federal, and private sector partners, acquired Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) underwater video data in the US Virgin Islands from 2/1/05 to 2/12/05. Data was acquired with a Phantom S2 ROV operated by NOAA's National Undersea Research Program (NURP) and georeferenced and visually interpreted by CCMA employees. Data is in UTM zone 20N, datum WGS84.
Resources
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Tags
- 1744
- 2005
- atlantic ocean
- bathymetry/topography
- benthic
- biogeography
- biological cover
- biosphere
- birnm
- buck
- buck island reef national monument
- caribbean sea
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- environmental monitoring
- geographic information
- geomorphological structure
- gis
- grammanik
- grammanik bank
- groundtruthing
- habitat
- habitat mapping
- habitats
- leeward islands
- mapping
- mid shelf reef
- msr
- nancy foster
- nf-05-05
- noaa
- nurp
- ocean basin
- phantom s2
- reef monitoring and assessment
- remotely operated vehicle
- rov
- salt river
- salt river bay national historical park and ecological reserve
- seafloor
- seafloor characterization of the buck island reef and the us virgin islands national coral reef monu
- st. croix
- st. croix (17n064w0003)
- st. john
- st. john (18n064w0011)
- st. thomas
- st. thomas (18n064w0033)
- substrate
- transect
- underwater video
- united states of america
- usvi
- u. s. virgin islands
- us virgin islands
- vicrnm
- video
- virgin islands
- virgin islands coral reef national monument
- zoology