Shallow-Water Benthic Habitats of Southwest Puerto Rico: Accuracy Assessment Site Locations
Description
Shallow-water (<30m) benthic habitat maps of the nearshore marine environment of two areas in Southwest Puerto Rico (PR), including the Guanica Bay/La Parguera region on the south coast and the Belvedere reserve on the west coast, were mapped and characterized using visual interpretation of optical and acoustic remotely sensed imagery. The objective was to provide spatially-explicit information on the habitat types, biological cover and live coral cover of the regionÂs coral reef ecosystem. These maps will be used to support marine resource management and conservation in the Commonwealth. In addition, the maps will enable change detection in an assessment of the effectiveness of restoration activities on the condition of adjacent coral reef ecosystems. The data contained in this shapefile denote the location of accuracy assessment (AA) sites, which were explored by NOAA field scientists to evaluate the thematic accuracy of the map. In particular, this shapefile includes the location of XXX accuracy assessment sites that were explored either by video drop camera or by snorkel.
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Tags
- seafloor
- united states of america
- reef monitoring and assessment
- coral reef
- corals
- biosphere
- habitat mapping
- oceans
- puerto rico (18n066w0000)
- environmental monitoring
- united states
- 793
- habitats
- atlantic ocean
- mapping shallow benthic habitats of the north east reserves mpa
- earth science
- u.s. caribbean
- biological cover
- submerged aquatic vegetation
- belvedere
- zone
- benthic habitats
- guanica bay
- 2012
- la parguera
- geomorphological structure
- pr
- coral reef ecology
- ocean basin
- caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
- coastal processes
- reef
- puerto rico
- zoology
- coral reefs
- mapping
- coris_metadata
- southwest
- geographic information
- country/territory
- unconsolidated sediments