NOAA Point Shapefile - Drop Camera transects, US Caribbean - Virgin Passage and St. John Shelf - Project NF-03-10-USVI-HAB - (2010), UTM 20N NAD83

Description

This shapefile denotes the location of underwater video that was collected by NOAA scientists using a SeaViewer drop camera system. For more information about this drop camera system, see: http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=263. Photos and/or video were collected between 03/18/2010 and 04/05/2010 at 104 locations within two selected areas of seafloor south of St. Thomas and St. John, USVI. These videos will be manually classified into different habitat classes, and integrated with the abiotic data collected by the acoustic SoNAR (sound navigation and ranging) systems to develop a benthic habitat map for the U.S. Caribbean. Habitat maps describe the location of habitat features (in relation to the shoreline), their physical composition and the types of organisms that colonize them. Fundamentally, habitat maps provide critical information about the extent, health and composition of marine resources, which is vital for communicating information about the distribution and abundance of species to resource managers, scientists and the public. Habitat maps also support an increasing number of landscape ecology studies, as well as the process of marine spatial planning, including the design and evaluation of marine protected areas (MPAs).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/nccos/dmp/pdf/38878.pdf
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/38878
0 Online Resource http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=263
0 Downloadable Data http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=263
0 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. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords

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  • st. john (18n064w0011)
  • united states of america
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • virgin islands
  • coral reef
  • corals
  • national ocean service
  • st. thomas (18n064w0033)
  • national centers for coastal ocean science
  • biosphere
  • usvi
  • habitat mapping
  • vieques island
  • leeward islands
  • noaa
  • caribbean sea
  • lesser antilles
  • culebra island
  • st. john
  • culebra island (18n066w0002)
  • st. thomas
  • u. s. virgin islands (17n064w0000)
  • habitats
  • atlantic ocean
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • biological cover
  • submerged aquatic vegetation
  • zone
  • doc/noaa/nos/nccos
  • benthic habitats
  • seafloormapping_uscaribbean_2004toongoing
  • vieques
  • us virgin islands
  • geomorphological structure
  • ground validation
  • ocean basin
  • caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
  • reef
  • puerto rico
  • zoology
  • u. s. virgin islands
  • mapping
  • geographic information
  • country/territory
  • unconsolidated sediments
  • transect
  • vieques island (18n065w0002)

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