NOAA Polyline Shapefile - ROV transects, US Caribbean - St. Thomas and St. John - Project NF-03-10-USVI - (2010), UTM 20N NAD83

Description

This shapefile denotes the location of underwater photos and/or video that were collected by NOAA scientists using a Spectrum Phantom S2 ROV (remotely operated vehicle). Photos and/or video were collected between 03/18/2010 and 04/05/2010 along 33 transects south of St. John and St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. These photos and 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 p ublic. 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
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
0 Downloadable Data http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=263
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/38879
0 Online Resource http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=263
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/nccos/dmp/pdf/38879.pdf

Tags

  • st. john (18n064w0011)
  • underwater video
  • 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
  • habitat mapping
  • leeward islands
  • united states
  • noaa
  • caribbean sea
  • st. john
  • st. thomas
  • habitats
  • atlantic ocean
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • u.s. caribbean
  • biological cover
  • ground truthing
  • zone
  • doc/noaa/nos/nccos
  • benthic habitats
  • seafloormapping_uscaribbean_2004toongoing
  • geomorphological structure
  • ground validation
  • ocean basin
  • u.s. virgin islands
  • reef
  • zoology
  • u. s. virgin islands
  • mapping
  • underwater photography
  • geographic information
  • country/territory
  • transect

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