LIDAR data is remotely sensed high-resolution elevation data collected by an airborne collection platform. Using a combination of laser rangefinding, GPS positioning and inertial measurement technologies; LIDAR instruments are able to make highly detailed...

LiDAR data was collected by Merrick & Company from September through December of 2007 for the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM). The project area is located in the southeastern part of Florida, in parts of the counties surrounding Lake Okeec...

U.S. commercial fisheries provide significant contributions to American Samoa island communities from economic, social, and cultural perspectives. U.S. fisheries—primarily the purse seine fishery, longline fishery, and small boat fishery—land their fish i...

This report summarizes the results of the second United States Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) Activities in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (UES) inventory of endangered species and wildlife resources at USAKA, which was conducted in 1998. The first wa...

This data summary report presents quantitative data for human, biological and physical variables. Data are summarized at the island and within-island scale (‘georegions’) for the priority areas of the Pacific and at the habitat scale (‘strata’) for the pr...

NGDC's U.S. Coastal Relief Model (CRM) provides the first comprehensive view of the U.S. coastal zone integrating offshore bathymetry with land topography into a seamless representation of the coast. The CRM spans the U.S. East and West Coasts, the northe...

Provides synthesis of existing information on the enforcement of U.S. marine protected areas (MPAs), discusses current institutional arrangements for MPA enforcement, highlights issues in MPA-related case law, examines perspectives on MPA enforcement and ...

Describes the classification scheme and software underlying the following CD-ROM product of the U.S. Coastal Service Center's Biogeography Program: Benthic habitats of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 2001.

This data set contains topographic and bathymetric lidar data that were collected on April 21, 23, 30, May 2, and June 14, 17 of 2003, cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and National P...

The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP)’s biological sampling provides a biennial ecological characterization of general reef condition for reef fishes, corals, and benthic habitat (i.e., fish species composition, density, and size; coral speci...