Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch Publication_Date: 2004 Title: NOAA Polyline Shapefile - MiniBat transects, US Virgin Islands - St. John, St. Thomas and St. Croix - Project NF-04-06-VI - (2004), UTM 20N NAD83 (NCEI Accession 0131850) Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Silver Spring, MD Publisher: NOAA's Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Other_Citation_Details: Please cite NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCMA/Biogeography Branch when using this dataset. Online_Linkage: https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=263 Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch Publication_Date: 2004 Title: Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean. Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Silver Spring, MD Publisher: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch Description: Abstract: This shapefile denotes the location of underwater photos and/or video that were collected by NOAA scientists using a MiniBat towed underwater system. Photos and/or video were collected between 02/22/2004 and 03/01/2004 along 1 transect north of St. Croix and along 6 transects south of St. Thomas and St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. These photos and videos will be manually classified into different habitat classes, and integrated with the abiotic data collected by the acoustic sonar (sound navigation and ranging) systems to develop a benthic habitat map for the U.S. Caribbean. Habitat maps describe the location of habitat features (in relation to the shoreline), their physical composition and the types of organisms that colonize them. Fundamentally, habitat maps provide critical information about the extent, health and composition of marine resources, which is vital for communicating information about the distribution and abundance of species to resource managers, sci entists and the public. Habitat maps also support an increasing number of landscape ecology studies, as well as the process of marine spatial planning, including the design and evaluation of marine protected areas (MPAs). Purpose: The objective of this ground validation (GV) effort, conducted by NOAA's Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment Biogeography Branch, in collaboration with multiple federal, state, territory, academic and private sector partners, was to acquire spatially-explicit information about the geomorphological structure, biological cover and live coral cover of the seafloor in the U.S. Caribbean. Extensive field work is needed to create high-quality benthic habitat maps because it enhances the accuracy of habitat attribution and (to a lesser degree) habitat delineation. Consequently, ground validation locations were targeted by the cartographer to satisfy the following objectives: (1) Explore features in the imagery with unknown or confusing acoustic signatures; (2) Confirm that the habitat type correlated with a particular acoustic signature remained consistent throughout the entire study area. This information will be incorporated into a fine-scale assessment of the statu s, abundance, and distribution of marine habitats in the U.S. Caribbean. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20040222 Ending_Date: 20040301 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -64.832 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -64.562 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 18.292 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 17.796 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NCEI Geoportal Filter Theme_Keyword: CoRIS_Metadata Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CRCP Project Theme_Keyword: Moderate-Deep water mapping and characterzation of National Monuments, Parks, and selected USVI Territory Waters. Theme_Keyword: 1253 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: coral reef Theme_Keyword: benthic habitats Theme_Keyword: reef Theme_Keyword: zone Theme_Keyword: geomorphological structure Theme_Keyword: biological cover Theme_Keyword: ground validation Theme_Keyword: ground truthing Theme_Keyword: transect Theme_Keyword: underwater video Theme_Keyword: underwater photography Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover Theme_Keyword: 010 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: Geographic Information > Habitats Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Theme Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Mapping > Habitat Mapping Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: United States Place_Keyword: U.S. Caribbean Place_Keyword: U.S. Virgin Islands Place_Keyword: St. John Place_Keyword: St. Thomas Place_Keyword: St. Croix Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Place Thesaurus Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Virgin Islands > St. Croix (17N064W0003) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. Croix > St. Croix (17N064W0003) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Leeward Islands > St. Thomas (18N064W0033) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. Thomas > St. Thomas (18N064W0033) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Virgin Islands > St. John (18N064W0011) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. John > St. John (18N064W0011) Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Region Place_Keyword: USVI Access_Constraints: Please cite any use of this data. Use_Constraints: Note: NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION. These data were prepared by an agency of the United States Government. 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The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by NOAA in the use of these data or related materials. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch Contact_Position: Project Manager - Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 1305 East West Highway, N-SCI-1, SSMC 4, 9th Floor City: Silver Spring State_or_Province: MD Postal_Code: 20910 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3028 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4384 Contact_Instructions: Contact info is for CCMA general reception. Please ask for current project manager of Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean project Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000 Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: The records in this data layer were automatically acquired by the GPS units and are expected to be correct. Logical_Consistency_Report: None. Completeness_Report: This shapefile includes all the locations visited during this mission. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: None. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch Publication_Date: Unpublished material Title: Raw GPS Files Type_of_Source_Media: GPS and USBL (Ultrashort baseline) data Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 2004 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: None. Source_Contribution: GPS and USBL (Ultrashort baseline) data Process_Step: Process_Description: A first draft benthic habitat map was generated by delineating features on the seafloor with discrete acoustic signatures. During the creation of this first draft map, the cartographer placed discrete points on or lines intersecting features in the map that had unknown acoustic signatures. Points were also placed on features with known acoustic signatures (evenly distributed throughout the geographic extent of the map) to confirm that the habitats associated with these signatures remained consistent through the area of interest. These two types of points were labeled as "ground validation" sites and were visited in the field. Process_Date: 2004 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Branch Contact_Position: Project Manager - Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 1305 East West Highway, N-SCI-1, SSMC 4, 9th Floor City: Silver Spring State_or_Province: MD Postal_Code: 20910 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3028 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4384 Contact_Instructions: Contact info is for CCMA general reception. Please ask for current project manager of Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean. Process_Step: Process_Description: NOAA scientists explored these ground validation locations in situ using a MiniBat towed underwater system. The resulting positional, video and photographic information was processed and will be used to classify each distinct habitat polygon to create a map of the seafloor in the U.S. Caribbean. Process_Date: 2004 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Branch Contact_Position: Project Manager - Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 1305 East West Highway, N-SCI-1, SSMC 4, 9th Floor City: Silver Spring State_or_Province: MD Postal_Code: 20910 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3028 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4384 Contact_Instructions: Contact info is for CCMA general reception. Please ask for current project manager of Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean. Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: String Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 7 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Planar: Grid_Coordinate_System: Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator Universal_Transverse_Mercator: UTM_Zone_Number: 20 Transverse_Mercator: Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.999600 Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -63.000000 Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.000000 False_Easting: 500000.000000 False_Northing: 0.000000 Planar_Coordinate_Information: Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: Coordinate Pair Coordinate_Representation: Abscissa_Resolution: 0.000100 Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000100 Planar_Distance_Units: meters Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983 Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: MiniBat_2004_Transects_Lines Entity_Type_Definition: Shapefile attribute table Entity_Type_Definition_Source: None Attribute: Attribute_Label: FID Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Attribute: Attribute_Label: Shape Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features. Attribute: Attribute_Label: Dive Attribute_Definition: Sequential order of the GV dives. Attribute_Definition_Source: NOAA Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Alphanumeric value assigned to each dive. Attribute: Attribute_Label: Year Attribute_Definition: Year in which the underwater photos and video were collected Attribute_Definition_Source: NOAA Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 2004 Range_Domain_Maximum: 2004 Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch Contact_Position: Project Manager - Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 1305 East West Highway, N-SCI-1, SSMC 4, 9th Floor City: Silver Spring State_or_Province: MD Postal_Code: 20910 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3028 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4384 Contact_Instructions: Contact info is for CCMA general reception. Please ask for current project manager of Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean. Resource_Description: Downloadable Data Distribution_Liability: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Biogeography Branch does not guarantee the accuracy of the geographic features or attributes. Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: ESRI Shapefile Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0131850/data/0-data/NF04_USVI_ROV_TransectLines/ Fees: None Custom_Order_Process: Contact NOAA for distribution options (see Distributor). Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20200329 Metadata_Review_Date: 20101208 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch Contact_Person: Project Manager - Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean Contact_Position: Project Manager - Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 1305 East West Highway, N-SCI-1, SSMC 4, 9th Floor City: Silver Spring State_or_Province: MD Postal_Code: 20910 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3028 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4384 Contact_Instructions: Contact info is for CCMA general reception. Please ask for current project manager of Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean. Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998 Metadata_Time_Convention: Local Time CoRIS: CoRIS_ID: 20101208065839 CoRIS_Children: None CoRIS_Beginning_Date: 20040222 CoRIS_Ending_Date: 20040301 CoRIS_Metadata_Link: https://www.coris.noaa.gov/metadata/records/html/metadata_2004_minibat_lines.html CoRIS_Tracking_ID: 6092