Seagrass map, Cat Island and Ship Island, Mississippi, 2014

Description

This product depicts the spatial coverage of seagrass beds from 0.5-m color-infrared orthoimagery for Cat Island and Ship Island, Mississippi from early fall of 2014. Specifically, the map includes presence and absence of seagrass beds within a potential seagrass extent that was based on topobathymetric data. A minimum mapping unit of 4 square meters was used for this mapping effort.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QT07CZ
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.62420e03d34e915b67eae1cb.xml

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  • environment
  • gulf-of-mexico
  • habitat-alteration-and-disturbance
  • mississippi
  • usgs-62420e03d34e915b67eae1cb
  • geoscientificinformation
  • seagrass-bed
  • habitat-map
  • united-states-of-america
  • aquatic-vascular-vegetation
  • mapping
  • aquatic-vegetation

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