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
2010
2006 IKONOS Image Vieques Puerto Rico - opo_215365_012_ps
remote-sensing image
Silver Spring, MD
NOAA's Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
Please use citation for the written document "Benthic Habitats of Vieques, Puerto Rico" when using these data.
https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=76
Bauer, L.J., M.S. Kendall, A.G. Zitello, and T. Battista
2010
Benthic Habitats of Vieques, Puerto Rico
NOS NCCOS
110
Silver Spring, MD
NOAA/NOS/NCCOS
Bauer, L.J., M.S. Kendall, A.G. Zitello, and T. Battista. 2010. Benthic Habitats of Vieques, Puerto Rico. pp. 9-46. In: Bauer and Kendall (eds.), An Ecological Characterization of the Marine Resources of Vieques, Puerto Rico Part II: Field Studies of Habitats, Nutrients, Contaminants, Fish, and Benthic Communities. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 110. Silver Spring, MD. 174 pp.
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 Offic 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. One-meter panchromatic and four-meter multi-spectral data from the IKONOS satellite sensor were purchased for the mapping area. Photo-interpreters accurately and reliably delineated boundaries of features from this IKONOS imagery as they appeared on the computer monitor using a software interface.
This product served as source information for a fine-scale assessment of the status, abundance, and distribution of marine habitats of Vieques. The NOAA effort provides resource managers and researchers with increased technical capacity for ocean exploration, management, and stewardship. Direct implications to management measures include evaluation of management efficacy, a spatial framework for improved monitoring sampling design, improved assessment of human-use impacts, and marine spatial planning to support alternative marine protected area boundary alternatives.
20061204
ground condition
None planned
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NCEI Geoportal FilterCoRIS_Metadata
NOS Data Explorer Topic Category
Environmental Monitoring
none
coral
seagrass
SAV
reef
IKONOS
IKONOS imagery
benthic
habitat
mangrove
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
014
environment
007
biota
002
CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
Map Images > IKONOS
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef monitoring and assessment > Mapping > Habitat mapping
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef monitoring and assessment > Remote sensing > Satellite (digital scans) > IKONOS
CoRIS Place Thesaurus
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea /North Atlantic Ocean > Puerto Rico > Vieques Island > Vieques Island (18N065W0002)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Puerto Rico > Vieques > Vieques Island (18N065W0002)
None
United States
Puerto Rico
Vieques
CoRIS Region
PR
None
Must adhere to Space Imaging LLC Tier 3 license agreement for IKONOS imagery.
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
mailing and physical address
1305 East West Highway, N/SCI1
Silver Spring
MD
20910
301-713-3028
301-713-4384
tim.battista@noaa.gov
0800 - 1700, Monday to Friday, EST
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.0.1770
Unknown
Unknown
Space Imaging LLC
2006
IKONOS imagery
12076 Grant Street, Thornton, Colorado 80241
Space Imaging LLC
IKONOS Image
20061204
ground condition
opo_215365_012_ps
Used to identify and digitize benthic habitats of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Bands 1 - 7: Geo-referencing of the imagery was performed using PCI OrthoEngine module. The NITF IKONOS imagery were orthorectified using the Rational Functions extracted from the NITF, then further supplemented with stereo ground control point positioning using a robust polynomial math model through bundle adjustment of all the satellite scenes.
2008
Tim Battista
NOAA National Ocean Service
Researcher
mailing and physical
1305 East West Highway
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028 x171
(301) 713-4388
Tim.Battista@noaa.gov
Bands 1 - 7: Terrain displacement was corrected for in the orthrectification bundle adjustment using the U.S. Geological Survey's Digital Elevation Model (DEM) generated from airborne LiDAR data.
2008
Tim Battista
NOAA National Ocean Service
Researcher
mailing and physical
1305 East West Highway
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028 x171
(301) 713-4388
Tim.Battista@noaa.gov
Bands 1 - 7: PCI OrthoEngine Pansharpening module was employed to create a high-resolution color image to be used for visual interpretation by NOAA scientists. It was applied to the IKONOS imagery to increase the spatial resolution of the 4 m multispectral data to the panchromatic data resolution of 1 m.
2008
Tim Battista
NOAA National Ocean Service
Researcher
mailing and physical
1305 East West Highway
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028 x171
(301) 713-4388
Tim.Battista@noaa.gov
Bands 5 - 7: The method for removal of sun glint described in Hedley et al. (2005) was applied to the IKONOS imagery to remove specular reflection from the sea surface. Reflection of solar radiation on non-flat water surfaces often results in areas of bright white sun glint in remotely sensed imagery. Typically, sun glint forms bands of white along wave edges on the windward side of nearshore environments. Sun glint can obscure bottom features and should be removed before habitat delineation.
2008
Tim Battista
NOAA National Ocean Service
Researcher
mailing and physical
1305 East West Highway
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028 x171
(301) 713-4388
Tim.Battista@noaa.gov
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These images contain 7 spectral bands (1-4 positioned and pan-sharpened, 5-7 positioned, pan-sharpened and de-glinted)
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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
Biogeography Branch Leader, Mapping Manager
mailing and physical address
1305 East West Highway, N/SCI1
Silver Spring
MD
20910
301-713-3028
301-713-4384
tim.battista@noaa.gov
0800 - 1700, Monday to Friday, EST
Downloadable Data
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None
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20100621
Laurie Bauer
NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Branch
physical address
1305 East West Highway
Silver Spring
MD
20910
U.S.A.
(301) 713 - 3028
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
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ESRI Metadata Profile
http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
ESRI Metadata Profile
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