American Samoa Watershed and Coastal Community Data Layers, Utulei, Fagaalu, Fatumafuti 2014
The Data Layers include the following.Flooding: Regions that flood during heavy rainfall.Intermittent Streams: Areas flow as streams during heavy rainfall.Community drinking Water Sources: Locations where villagers used to collect water for drinking, most...
Explores emerging monitoring strategies and presents adaptive management techniques to aniticipate and mitigate coral bleaching, with emphasis upon identification and promotion of resilience in coral reef ecosystems. Includes coverage of strategic use of ...
A Manager’s Guide to Coral Reef Restoration Planning and Design
As a global community of managers, scientists, restoration practitioners, and stakeholders embarking on the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), we must thoughtfully implement coral reef restoration projects, monitor and evaluate success, and s...
A Florida reef manager's guide to a quick and cost effective valuation of reef resources
An economic study of South Florida's reefs may help lead towards the understanding of how important reefs are to the local economy, something that a detailed 2001 study brought to the forefront (Johns et al., 2001). The data used in that economic valuatio...
Coral reef and marine resource manager climate information needs assessment for the Florida reef tract
This report summarizes the results of a needs assessment conducted with 15 marine resource managers in southeast Florida from December 2011 through May 2012. The purpose of the front-end assessment is to identify the type of climate data needed and the pr...
C-CAP Florida Region 1996-2010-Era Land Cover Change
This is a final classification. It is ready for distribution. This data set is the 1996-2010-era change classification of U.S. Florida region. This data set utilized full or partial Landsat scenes which were analyzed according to the Coastal Change Analys...
Coastal Bend Texas Benthic Habitat Mapping Patchy Shapefile Map - San Antonio Bay and Espiritu Santo Bay (NODC Accession 0070784)
The NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC) requested the creation of benthic habitat data along the southern Texas coast to support the Texas Seagrass Monitoring Program.The benthic habitat map was created from 1m UltraCam digital airborne imagery collected i...
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef fish communities in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary from 2018-06-11 to 2018-06-14 (NCEI Accession 0208240)
The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) assessed coral reef fish communities at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) in the Gulf of Mexico using the stationary point count method (7.5m radius cylinder).
This method collects an...
Coastal Bend Texas Benthic Habitat Mapping Patchy Shapefile Map - Lower Laguna Madre (NODC Accession 0070784)
The NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC) requested the
creation of benthic habitat data along the southern Texas
coast to support the Texas Seagrass Monitoring Program.
The benthic habitat map was created from 1m ADS40
digital airborne imagery collected alo...
Coastal Bend Texas Benthic Habitat - Lower Laguna Madre (NODC Accession 0070784)
In 2006 and 2007 the NOAA Coastal Services Center
purchased services to process existing digital multi-spectral
imagery (ADS-40) and create digital benthic habitat data
from this imagery for selected Texas coastal bend bays.
The Center worked cooperativel...
American Samoa Watershed and Coastal Community Data Layers, Utulei, Fagaalu, Fatumafuti 2014
A reef manager's guide to coral bleaching