Preliminary hard and soft bottom seafloor substrate map derived from gridded sidescan and bathymetry derivatives at Apra Harbor, Guam U.S. Territory.

Description

Preliminary hard and soft seafloor substrate map classified from sidescan data and bathymetric derivatives at Apra Harbor, Guam U.S. Territory. The dataset was created using Bathymetric Position Index (bpi) zones derived from Reson SeaBat 8125 multibeam data at a 1 m grid cell size, and Klein 3000 sidescan sonar data. The sonar frequency is 455 kHz for the Reson Seabat 8125 multibeam echosounder. Additional information on multibeam and sidescan datasets can be found in the Data Acquisition and Processing Report (DAPR) that can be accessed at: www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc. Classification of the bathymetry and sidescan data into hard and soft seafloor substrates were validated using groundtruth data collected for the US Navy in Appendix J of the Final EIS Statement: Guam and CNMI Military Relocation accessed at: http://www.guambuildupeis.us/final_documents. Survey site images can be found at http://guamreeflife.com/htm/reeftour/cvn_survey_sites.htm. Although hard and soft classes from the substrate map are highly correlated with those from the optical validation data, the substrate map should be used with caution as groundtruth data were mostly collected at areas of known hard bottom in less than 60 ft of water depth.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 Apra_5m_Hardsoft.zip ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/website/data/cnmi-guam/benthichabitatlayers/Apra_5m_Hardsoft.zip

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  • benthic habitat mapping and characterization - commonwealth of the northern mariana islands and guam
  • united states of america
  • western pacific ocean
  • apra harbour (13n144e0051)
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • corals
  • geomorphology mapping
  • biosphere
  • habitat mapping
  • oceans
  • guam
  • 1398
  • habitats
  • earth science
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • coastal processes
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • mapping
  • coris_metadata
  • pacific ocean
  • geographic information
  • country/territory

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