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
2012
Shallow-Water Benthic Habitats of Southwest Puerto Rico: GeoEye Image po_1700252_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 "Shallow-Water Benthic Habitats of Southwest Puerto Rico."https://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/collections/benthic/e92swpr/default.aspx
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
2012
Shallow-Water Benthic Habitats of Southwest Puerto Rico
shapefile
Silver Spring, MD
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Bauer, L.J., K. Edwards, K.K.W. Roberson, M.S. Kendall, S. Tormey, and T. Battista. 2012. Shallow-water benthic habitats of Southwest Puerto Rico. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA NOS NCCOS 155. Silver Spring, MD.
Shallow-water (<30m) benthic habitat maps of the nearshore marine environment of two areas in Southwest Puerto Rico (PR), including the Guanica Bay/La Parguera region on the south coast and the Belvedere reserve on the west coast, were mapped and characterized using visual interpretation of optical remotely sensed imagery. The objective was to provide spatially-explicit information on the habitat types, biological cover and live coral cover of the regions coral reef ecosystem. These maps will be used to support marine resource management and conservation in the Commonwealth. GeoEye-1 satellite imagery was purchased for the mapping area. Photo-interpreters accurately and reliably delineated boundaries of features from this GeoEye-1 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 Southwest Puerto Rico. 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.
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ground condition
None planned
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NCEI Geoportal FilterCoRIS_Metadata
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coral reef
benthic habitats
aerial image
CRCP Project
Mapping Shallow Benthic Habitats of the North East Reserves MPA, Puerto Rico
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NOS Data Explorer Topic Category
Environmental Monitoring
ISO 19115 Topic Category
environment
007
CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
Geographic Information > Habitats
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral Reef Ecology > Habitats
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Mapping > Habitat Mapping
None
United States
U.S. Caribbean
Puerto Rico
Southwest
Guanica Bay
La Parguera
Belvedere
CoRIS Place Thesaurus
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea /North Atlantic Ocean > Puerto Rico > Puerto Rico (18N066W0000)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Puerto Rico > Puerto Rico (18N066W0000)
CoRIS Region
PR
None
Seafloor
None
2012
Please cite any use of this data.
Note: NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION.
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch
mailing and physical address
1305 East West Highway, N-SCI-1, SSMC 4, 9th Floor
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028
Laurie.Bauer@noaa.gov
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.0.1770
These data are believed to be logically consistent, although not tested.
The image was pansharpened, georeferenced and co-registered
GeoEye
2010
GeoEye-1 imagery
2325 Dulles Corner Boulevard, Herndon, VA 20171
Geoeye
Raster image
2010
ground condition
po_1700252_PS
Used to identify and digitize benthic habitats of Southwest Puerto Rico
ENVI 4.6.1 software was used to derive a high-resolution, pansharpened and georeferenced dataset. For each scene, ENVIs Pan Sharpening tool created a full-color image at the panchromatic bands resolution (0.41 m). This image fusion tool merges the spectral signatures of the input color bands while using the panchromatic band to enhance the spatial features, two useful outcomes for the photointerpreter. Subsequently, geo-referencing was performed using ENVIs Orthorectify GeoEye-1 with Ground Control module. The ground control points (GCPs) were fixed ground features visible in the imagery that are used along with the satellites ephemeris data to link the image pixels to a coordinate system. NOAA scientists occupied and logged these points using a L1 Trimble GeoXT mapping grade GPS unit, and accuracy was enhanced by adjusting to the continuously-operating base station (PRMI CORS) located on Magueyes Island, PR. Due to the difficulty of obtaining precise positions for submerged features, only ground control points for terrestrial features were collected. Also as part of this module, terrain displacement was corrected for using the U.S. Geological Surveys Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Once individually orthorectified, the scenes from each acquisition were geographically matched tightly to one another using ENVIs Warp From GCPs: Image to Image tool.
2010
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch
mailing and physical address
1305 East West Highway, N-SCI-1, SSMC 4, 9th Floor
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028
Laurie.Bauer@noaa.gov
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WGS_1984
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These images contain 4 spectral bands
NOAA
Band 1
Blue (positioned & pan-sharpened)
NOAA
Image processing results
Band 2
Green (positioned & pan-sharpened)
NOAA
Image processing results
Band 3
Red (positioned & pan-sharpened)
NOAA
Image processing results
Band 4
Near Infrared (positioned & pan-sharpened)
NOAA
Image processing results
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch
mailing and physical address
1305 East West Highway, N-SCI-1, SSMC 4, 9th Floor
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028
(301) 713-4384
Laurie.Bauer@noaa.gov
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Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch
mailing and physical address
1305 East West Highway, N-SCI-1, SSMC 4, 9th Floor
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028
(301) 713-4384
Laurie.Bauer@noaa.gov
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