Northeast Puerto Rico and Culebra Island - Geographic Zone Map 2015
Description
This geographic zone map was created by interpreting satellite and aerial imagery, seafloor topography (bathymetry model), and the new NEPR Benthic Habitat Map (2015). The area of interest includes the nearshore shallow waters (0-35m) of Fajardo and Luqillo to the Former Roosevelt Roads Navy Base, the Vieques Sound, La Cordillera Reserve, the Luis Pena Reserve, and the waters around Culebra Island. A zone refers to each benthic community's geographic location and geomorphological structure. The geographic zone map was manually digitized the shoreline and the zone features for the entire area of interest in ArcGIS at the 1:6000 scale. The map was classified into 12 geographic zones based on the schema that has been developed by the Biogeography Branch, and which also match the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS).
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Tags
- coastal ocean science
- detailed structure
- united states of america
- habitat map
- aquatic habitat
- coral reef
- benthic habitat
- culebra
- biosphere
- geomorphology
- geographic zone
- bathymetry
- oceans
- puerto rico (18n066w0000)
- digitization
- biogeography
- barrier reef
- luquillo (18n065w0012)
- fajardo (18n065w0004)
- description
- 793
- arcgis
- major cover
- cabeza de san juan
- culebra island (18n065w0011)
- trimble
- u.s. exclusive economic zone
- habitats
- atlantic ocean
- topographic complexity
- fajardo
- mapping shallow benthic habitats of the north east reserves mpa
- earth science
- aerial photo interpretation
- principle component analysis
- gopro
- seaviewer
- fringing reef
- reef habitat
- ocean basin
- caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
- coastal processes
- la cordillera
- puerto rico
- coral reefs
- coris_metadata
- geographic information
- caribbean
- country/territory
- northeast ecological reserve
- hard bottom cover
- vieques sound