Description
Benthic habitat maps of the nearshore marine environment of Vieques, Puerto Rico 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 NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration, was to provide spatially-explicit information on the habitat types, biological cover and live coral cover of Vieques' coral reef ecosystem. The data described herein represent accuracy assessment (AA) sites explored by NOAA field scientists to evaluate the thematic accuracy of the benthic habitat maps of Vieques.
Resources
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Tags
- accuracy assessment
- aquatic habitat
- atlantic ocean
- benthic habitat
- benthic habitats
- biological cover
- biosphere
- caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
- coastal processes
- coral cover
- coral reef
- coral reef ecology
- coral reefs
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- geographic information
- geomorphological structure
- habitat mapping
- habitats
- mapping
- ocean basin
- oceans
- point
- pr
- puerto rico
- reef
- reef monitoring and assessment
- submerged aquatic vegetation
- unconsolidated sediments
- united states
- united states of america
- vieques
- vieques island
- vieques island (18n065w0002)
- zone
- zoology