St. John Shallow-water Ground Validation Transects
Description
Benthic habitat maps of the nearshore marine environment of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands were created by visual interpretation of remotely sensed imagery. The objective of this effort, conducted by NOAA's Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment - Biogeography Branch in partnership with the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), was to provide spatially-explicit information on the habitat types, biological cover and live coral cover of St. John's coral reef ecosystem. The data described herein represent evaluation transects of ground validation (GV) sites explored by NOAA field scientists to further refine habitat map classification. Considering vessel drift during habitat characterization, the entire evaluation period was most accurately represented by a series of GPS points logged at five-second intervals.
Resources
| Name |
Format |
Description |
Link |
Tags
- st. john (18n064w0011)
- united states of america
- aquatic habitat
- virgin islands
- coral reef
- benthic habitat
- biosphere
- usvi
- united states
- caribbean sea
- st. john
- habitats
- atlantic ocean
- earth science
- biological cover
- submerged aquatic vegetation
- zone
- benthic habitats
- geomorphological structure
- ground validation
- ocean basin
- reef
- u. s. virgin islands
- coris_metadata
- geographic information
- country/territory
- unconsolidated sediments
- transect