Vieques, Puerto Rico Benthic Habitat Map - Ground Validation Sites
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 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 ground validation (GV) sites explored by NOAA field scientists to further refine habitat map classification.
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Tags
- coral cover
- united states of america
- reef monitoring and assessment
- aquatic habitat
- coral reef
- corals
- benthic habitat
- biosphere
- habitat mapping
- oceans
- vieques island
- united states
- point
- habitats
- atlantic ocean
- earth science
- biological cover
- submerged aquatic vegetation
- zone
- benthic habitats
- vieques
- geomorphological structure
- ground validation
- pr
- coral reef ecology
- ocean basin
- caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
- coastal processes
- reef
- puerto rico
- zoology
- coral reefs
- mapping
- coris_metadata
- geographic information
- country/territory
- unconsolidated sediments
- vieques island (18n065w0002)