Preliminary hard and soft bottom seafloor substrate map derived from an unsupervised classification of gridded backscatter and bathymetry derivatives at Tutuila Island, American Samoa, South Pacific.
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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)
- Publication_Date: 20080602
- Title:
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Preliminary hard and soft bottom seafloor substrate map
derived from an unsupervised classification of gridded
backscatter and bathymetry derivatives at Tutuila Island,
American Samoa, South Pacific.
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: digital data
- Online_Linkage: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/
- Description:
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- Abstract:
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Preliminary hard and soft seafloor substrate map derived
from an unsupervised classification of multibeam backscatter and
bathymety derivatives at Tutuila Island, American Samoa, South
Pacific. 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:
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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. This is a preliminary product and
the methods used to generate the map are currently being evaluated
for their accuracy.
- Supplemental_Information:
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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: 20040225
- Ending_Date: 20060226
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
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Benthic Habitat Mapping and Characterization - American Samoa and the U.S. Pacific Remote Island Area
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EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral Reef Ecology > Habitats
- Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat
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EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Mapping > Habitat Mapping
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EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Soft Seafloor Substrate
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EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Hard Seafloor Substrate
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- Theme_Keyword: Geographic Information > Habitats
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- Theme_Keyword: Hard bottom
- Theme_Keyword: Soft bottom
- Theme_Keyword: Unsupervised Classification
- Theme_Keyword: Acoustic Imagery
- Theme_Keyword: Multibeam Backscatter
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- Theme_Keyword: Bathymetry
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- Theme_Keyword: Substrate
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- Place_Keyword: Tutuila Island
- Place_Keyword: American Samoa
- Place_Keyword: South Pacific
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OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > American Samoa > Tutuila Island (14S170W0016)
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COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > American Samoa > Tutuila Island (14S170W0016)
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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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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. Both backscatter
datasets (Simrad em3002d and Reson 8101) were resampled to 5 m
grid cell size using the Raster Resample Tool in the ArcMap
Version 9.2 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 9.2 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 9.2. 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 9.2. 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. The two resulting classified images,
one for the Reson 8101 dataset and one for the Simrad em3002d
dataset, can be mosaicked and exported as GeoTIFF files in either
ArcMap or ENVI to create one image containing three classes;
soft, hard bottom, and unclassified (background).
In addition to the processing steps mentioned above, the high-
intensity, track parallel, nadir signal was removed from the
Reson 8101 backscatter data prior to classification in ENVI
because it is a data acquisition artifact and causes false
classification results. The nadir signal was removed by creating
a 20 m buffer in ArcGIS around the R/V AHI trackline navigation
data sampled every second. The buffer was used to mask the
Reson 8101 backscatter data and results in the trackline parallel
unclassified data gaps. Methods to most accurately interpolate
across the gaps are currently under investigation.
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