Preliminary hard and soft bottom seafloor substrate map derived from an unsupervised classification of gridded backscatter and bathymetry derivatives at French Frigate Shoals, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, USA

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Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Publication_Date: 20090901

Title:

Preliminary hard and soft bottom seafloor substrate map derived from an unsupervised classification of gridded backscatter and bathymetry derivatives at French Frigate Shoals, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, USA

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: digital data

Online_Linkage:

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/cms/data-by-location/northwest-hawaiian-islands/french-frigate-shoals/geomorphology/

Description:

Abstract:

Preliminary hard and soft seafloor substrate map derived from an unsupervised classification of multibeam backscatter and bathymety derivatives at French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, USA. The dataset was derived using a combination of Simrad em3002d and Reson 8101 backscatter, bathymetric variance and bathymetric rugosity. The sonar frequencies are 300 kHz and 240 kHz for the em3002d and the 8101 data respectively and all data were resampled to 5 m grid cell size prior to the classification. Initial supervised classifications of the backscatter data into hard and soft seafloor substrates, using seafloor photographs for groundtruthing and to define regions of interest, were used to define unsupervised class types and to visually evaluate the accuracy of the unsupervised classification seafloor substrate map.

Purpose:

The hard and soft seafloor map is being used to improve sampling techniques for long-term ecosystem monitoring, to guide future ground-truthing operations and to identify coral-rich and species specific environments in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. This is a preliminary product and the methods used to generate the map are currently being evaluated for their accuracy.

Supplemental_Information:

Multibeam bathymetry and backscatter data were collected aboard the R/V AHI (Acoustic Habitat Investigator) and the NOAA Ship Hiialakai. See the metadata for those datasets served separately at www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc. The batymetric rugosity dataset is also served separately at the same website. The bathymetric variance grids were generated for use in the classification process and are not served separately. See the process description portion of this document for additional information about how the variance and unsupervised layers were derived.

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Beginning_Date: 20050406

Ending_Date: 20080528

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

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West_Bounding_Coordinate: -166.39134

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -166.20088

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 23.870576

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 23.649073

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Benthic Habitat Mapping and Characterization - Northwestern and Main Hawaiian Islands

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Theme_Keyword: Geographic Information > Habitats

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EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Hard Seafloor Substrate

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EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Soft Seafloor Substrate

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Theme_Keyword: Hard bottom

Theme_Keyword: Soft bottom

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Theme_Keyword: Bathymetry

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Theme_Keyword: Substrate

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Place_Keyword: French Frigate Shoals

Place_Keyword: Hawaii

Place_Keyword: Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Place_Keyword: United States of America

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OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > French Frigate Shoals (24N166W0001)

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COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > French Frigate Shoals (24N166W0001)

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These data are not to be used for navigation purposes. Please acknowledge the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) and the Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), and the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR) and School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaii as the sources of this information.

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Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

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Address: NOAA IRC

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Address: 1845 WASP Blvd., Building 176

City: Honolulu

State_or_Province: HI

Postal_Code: 96818

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 808 725-5360

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 808 725-5429

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: nmfs.pic.credinfo@noaa.gov

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Data_Set_Credit: PIBHMC, CRED, PIFSC, NOAA, and JIMAR

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GeoTIFF file created using ENVI 4.3 in a Microsoft Windows environment

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Attribute_Accuracy:

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Data are collected for resource management and research purposes and are tested for internal consistency; however, no effort is made to compare these data to external references or to other published data.

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These data are believed to be logically consistent though no tests were performed

Completeness_Report: Complete

Positional_Accuracy:

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Horizontal positioning system: GPS (SPS) Horizontal position accuracy: 25 meters

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1 m Range resolution of sonar ~1.25 cm Raw sounding resolution: Variable Vertical accuracy of gridded product: 1% of water depth

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Processing steps used to generate the backscatter, bathymetry, and bathymetric rugosity grids used in the unsupervised classification process are described in their own metadata that can be found at www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc. The most map contains three separated datasets including Simrad em3002d and Reson 8101 data collected on cruises in 2005 and Reson 8101 data collected in 2008. Backscatter from the three datasets were processed separately and resampled to 5 m grid cell size using the Raster Resample Tool in the ArcMap Version 9.3 Toolbox. Resampling of the backscatter was performed after charted data in the GeoTIFF format for the individual sonar systems were mosaicked using the ArcMap Version 9.3 Toolbox Mosaic to New Raster function. Mosaics were created in the ESRI GRID format. Bathymetric variance was calculated from the 5 m bathymetry in a two-step process using ArcMap Version 9.3. The first step involved calculating the standard deviation of the bathymetry layer using the Neighborhood Statistic tool from the Spatial Analyst pull-down menu in ArcMap Version 9.3. Rectangular neighborhood settings were set to a height and width of 2 grid cells to create a small-scale variance layer. The standard deviation output was then squared using the ArcMap Raster Calculater tool. A large-scale variance layer was also generated using a rectangular neighborhood height and width of 5 grid cells. The fine-scale variance is useful for defining small features that may indicate the presence of sediment ripples or possible coral-rich areas whereas the large-scale variance is useful for defining seafloor ridges, pinnacles, and significant changes in slope. Bathymetric variance proved to be a useful tool in previous efforts to map seafloor habitats by Dartnell and Gardner (2004). Their publication can be downloaded from www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/pibhmc_documentation.htm. Two separate sets of variance and rugosity layers were then created with the same pixel dimensions as the the Reson 8101 and Simrad em3002d backscatter datasets. The datasets were handled separately because the difference in sonar frequencies between the two backscatter prevents them from being directly comparable. They should not be merged into one backscatter layer prior to classification. The layers were then opened as ESRI GRIDS in the image processing software package ENVI (Environment for Visualizing Images) Version 4.3. Two multi-band images were then created with the backscatter, small- and large-scale variance, and rugosity. A mask was also created in ENVI for each backscatter dataset. Image classification was performed separately on the two multi-band images using the K-Means unsupervised classification method, which calculates initial class means evenly distributed in the data space and then iteratively clusters the pixels into the nearest class using a minimum distance technique. More information about K-Means algorithm can be found in the ENVI documentation available at www.ittvis.com/envi/. The number of classes was set to two and all other options were set to default. Class color mapping was performed on the resulting classified images. The substrate types of hard and soft were assigned based on results from supervised classification of the backscatter data (also performed in ENVI) using hard and soft bottom classes from classified seafloor photographs. The photographs, classifications, and descriptions of the classification process are available for download at www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc. Three resulting classified images, two for the Reson 8101 datasets and one for the Simrad em3002d dataset, were mosaicked in ArcMap using the Mosaic to New Raster in the ArcMap Version 9.3 Toolbox and exported from ArcGIS as a GeoTIFF file to create one image containing three classes; sand, hard bottom, and unclassified (background).

Process_Date: 20090220

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Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

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Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

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