"Esta edicion de la revista El Estado de la Costa de Puerto Rico 2017, tiene como propsito presentar la situacion actual de las areas y recursos costeros, asi como documentar las acciones que se han llevado a cabo para adelantar la mision y los planes de ...
Characterizing Shallow-water Benthic Habitats In Select Areas Around Saipan, Tinian, and Rota (CNMI)
The goal of this project is to characterize high-priority areas of interest between 0 - 40m identified during the Mapping Gap Analysis Project (FY 21-23) in coordination with CNMI jurisdictional leadership. NCCOS will develop high-quality benthic habitat ...
Predicting coral morphology across space to inform the protective capacity of coral reefs in CNMI
Many organizations, including NOAA, need effective approaches to evaluate and predict changes in coral reefs at multiple, ecologically meaningful scales (i.e., centimeters to meters to kilometers). This ability requires the use of modeling approaches to i...
NOAA Polyline Shapefile - ROV transects, US Caribbean - south of Vieques and in and around the Grand Reserve northeast of Puerto Rico (2013)
This polyline shapefile denotes the location of underwater photos and/or video that were collected by NOAA scientists using a Spectrum Phantom S2 ROV (remotely operated vehicle). Photos and/or video were collected between 03/06/2013 to 03/29/2013 along 56...
NOAA Point Shapefile - ROV transects - Locations of underwater photos and/or video collected in the US Caribbean - south of Vieques and in and around the Grand Reserve northeast of Puerto Rico (2013)
This point shapefile denotes the location of underwater photos and/or video that were collected by NOAA scientists using a Spectrum Phantom S2 ROV (remotely operated vehicle). Photos and/or video were collected between 03/06/2013 to 03/29/2013 along 56 tr...
NCCOS Assessment: Underwater Video for Ground Validation and Accuracy Assessment of Benthic Habitat Maps of the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2010-03-20 to 2017-02-10
The presence and absence of the four substrate and four biological cover types were documented at 1,353 locations on the insular shelf south of St. Thomas and St. John. At each location, an underwater camera system was used to collect high definition (HD)...
Climate Resilience Potential and Adaptive Capacity Assessment for Costa Occidental de Isla Mujeres, Punta Cancun, and Punta Nizuc Marine Protected Area: A Summary
"The National Park Costa Occidental de Isla Mujeres, Punta Cancun y Punta Nizuc (PNCOIMPCPN in Spanish) is a protected area (PA) managed by Mexicos National Commission for Protected Areas (CONANP in Spanish). The coral reefs located within the National Pa...
Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) transects collected in 2014 (Polyline Shapefile) southwest and northeast of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (NODC Accession 0128255)
This polyline shapefile denotes the location of underwater photos and/or video that were collected by NOAA scientists using a Mohawk ROV (remotely operated vehicle). Photos and/or video were collected between 03/04/2014 to 04/08/2014 along 44 transects so...
Mapping Seafloor Relative Reflectance and Assessing Coral Reef Morphology with EAARL-B Topobathymetric Lidar Waveforms
Topobathymetric lidar is becoming an increasingly valuable tool for benthic habitat mapping, enabling safe, efficient data acquisition over coral reefs and other fragile ecosystems. In 2014, a novel topobathymetric lidar system, the Experimental Advanced ...
St. John Moderate-Depth Benthic Habitat Map derived from Acoustic Imagery
Benthic habitats of the moderate-depth marine environment in and around the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument were mapped using a combination of semi-automated classification and visual interpretation of acoustic imagery. The objective of this...
El Estado de la Costa de Puerto Rico 2017
NOAA Polyline Shapefile - ROV transects, US Caribbean - south of Vieques and in and around the Grand Reserve northeast of Puerto Rico (2013)