Directory of remote sensing applications for coral reef management
This directory is part of a suite of tools aimed to help reef managers make better use of remotely sensed data. The directory is deliberately brief and aims to familiarize managers with the opportunities provided by remote sensing. The overall limitations...
"The islands of Vanuatu can experience very dry or very wet conditions as a result of El Nino and La Nina events. These conditions, along with extreme events like cyclones, can have serious impacts on water quality, food security, infrastructure (like hou...
Hawaii's Climate Change and Marine Disease Local Action Strategy
Coral reef ecosystems are naturally dynamic and geologically resilient, but their ecosystem functions are being threatened worldwide by accelerated and novel environmental changes due to human activities. In 2002, the US Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF) ide...
Growth rates of Florida corals from 1937 to 1996 and their response to climate change in Nature Communications
"Ocean acidification causes declines in calcification rates of corals because of decreasing aragonite saturation states (O arag). Recent evidence also indicates that increasing sea surface temperatures may have already reduced growth and calcification rat...
GIS Map of Mosaicked LandSat 7 ETM+ Satellite Imagery of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia Federated States, and the Republic of Palau from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 2003 (NODC Accession 0067475)
These maps show for the first time an accurate georeferenced mosaic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and their respective corresponding shallow water areas. Shallow-water (generally, less than 30 meters) ...
Village-based planning in American Samoa to address threats posed to coral reefs by climate change
"We developed village-specific climate impact and coral reef condition information for 30 villages in American Samoa where long-term coral reef monitoring has occurred. The project team included collaborators from NOAA PIRO, the CRAG, the DMWR, and the NP...
C-CAP Land Cover Change, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Agrihan, 2001-2015
This data set contains the 2001 and 2015 classifications of Agrihan, CNMI and can be used to analyze change. This data set utilized several full or partial WorldView-3 and Quickbird multispectral scenes and the 2001 high-resolution Agrihan C-CAP data set,...
C-CAP Land Cover Change, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Anatahan, 2005 - 2016
This data set consists of land derived from high resolution imagery and was analyzed according to the Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) protocol to determine land cover. This data set utilized Worldview and Quickbird imagery to determine land cover ...
Benthic Habitats of Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix U.S. Virgin Islands, 2004-02-18 to 2011-08-30 (NCEI Accession 0285904)
This data package contains information about the geology and biology of the seafloor from approximately 0 to 1,830 meters in Buck Island Reef National Monument (BIRNM) St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). It was created by delineating habitats visible i...
Climate change implications for the Arafura and Timor Seas region: assessing vulnerability of marine systems to inform management and conservation
The Arafura and Timor Seas region is shared by Indonesia, Timor Leste, Australia, and Papua New Guinea (PNG), and is at the intersection of the Pacific and Indian oceans. High coastal population densities, degraded habitats, overexploited fisheries, low p...
Directory of remote sensing applications for coral reef management
GIS Map of Mosaicked LandSat 7 ETM+ Satellite Imagery of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia Federated States, and the Republic of Palau from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 2003 (NODC Accession 0067475)