36150 BIA_CNET_Climate_DataDictionary Entity Published / External 36147 National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Cover from Annotated Benthic Images Collected During Photoquadrat Surveys at Climate Stations across the Mariana Archipelago since 2014 Data Set Completed Data Table Yes Data dictionary of benthic cover dataset. Describes benthic image analysis results from site imagery using the CoralNet annotation tool, and includes the mission and site-specific information. Updated in 2023 to include column SITEVISITID. In 2023 columns PERM_SITE and CLIMATE_STATION_YN were irrelevant and excluded -- all data was from fixed sites. 1 ROUNDID NUMERIC 22 Yes No 28 0 Active Unique Identifier for MISSIONID auto-assigned by database for ROUND record (corresponds to mission, cruise, cruise leg, etc.). 2 MISSIONID TEXT 30 Yes No Active Mission Identifier. 3 REGION_NAME TEXT 30 No No Active The name of the region surveyed in the Pacific Islands region: American Samoa, Pacific Remote Island Areas, Mariana Archipelago, main Hawaiian Islands, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. 4 ISLAND TEXT 150 No No Active Name of island or atoll surveyed in the Pacific Islands region (REGION_NAME). 5 SITE TEXT 150 No No Active The code for the site surveyed at the island or atoll (ISLAND). Combines a 3-letter island code with a 2-5 digit site number, separated by a hyphen. 6 SITEVISITID NUMERIC No No Active Unique identifier created each time a SITE is surveyed on a DATE_. 7 OCC_SITEID TEXT No No Active Fixed site identifier; fixed sites are established for oceanography surveys conducted by the ESD's Ocean and Climate Change Team. 8 LATITUDE NUMERIC 22 No No 38 8 Active Latitude in decimal degrees, WGS84, for the given SITE. 9 LONGITUDE NUMERIC 22 No No 28 8 Active Longitude in decimal degrees, WGS84 for the given SITE. 12 PERM_SITE NUMERIC 22 No No 5 0 Active Flag for permanent site (-1), typically established in the early years of the Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. A varying subset of the activities conducted at CLIMATE_STATIONS are conducted at permanent sites. 13 CLIMATE_STATION_YN NUMERIC 22 No No Active Flag for NCRMP climate station (-1). Typically, 3-4 climate stations were selected in a stratified random fashion to be roughly equally spaced around the island/atoll, along the 15-m contour, on hard bottom, and at least 1-km away from a river mouth or embayment (if relevant to the island/atoll). Multiple features of the coral reef environment are assessed at climate stations, including in-situ water temperature using subsurface temperature recorders (STRs), seawater carbonate chemistry from water samples, net carbonate accretion using calcification accretion units (CAUs), bioerosion using bioerosion monitoring units (BMUs), and cryptobiota diversity using autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS). 16 DATE_ DATE 7 Yes No Active Date the survey was conducted (d-mmm-yy). 17 IMAGE_NAME TEXT 4000 No No Active Image name (SITE_YEAR_REP_PHOTOID). 18 OBS_YEAR TEXT 16 No No Active 4-digit year the survey was conducted (DATE_). 19 REPLICATE TEXT 4 No No Active Letter associated to replicate / transect for the survey. In 2013 and 2016, Rep A is for reef fish surveys and Rep A or B is for coral demographic surveys. In 2019, all fish and coral surveys are rep A. If no letter, it refers to photo number: Photo 1-9 = 0 Photo 10-19 = 1 Photo 20-29 = 2 Photo 30-39 = 3 20 PHOTOID TEXT 4000 No No Active Sequential image number along transect, usually 1-30, though some sites may have less than or exceed 30 images. 21 ANALYST TEXT 20 No No Active Username of the person that annotated the images. The analyst for automated annotations (as opposed to annotations generated by humans) is ALLEVIATE (aka the CoralNet Robot). 22 TIER_1 TEXT 5 No No Active Code for CATEGORY NAME. 23 CATEGORY_NAME TEXT 20 No No Active Category classification for the point on the analyzed image (X POS, Y POS). Taxa/functional group includes: coral, coralline alga, macroalga, mobile fauna, sediment, sessile invertebrate, soft coral, tape and wand, turf alga, and unclassified. 24 TIER_2 TEXT 5 No No Active Code for SUBCATEGORY NAME. 25 SUBCATEGORY_NAME TEXT 50 No No Active Subcategory classification name for the point on the analyzed image (X POS, Y POS). Includes morphology for hard corals and functional groups (giant clam, zoanthid, etc.) 26 TIER_3 TEXT 5 No No Active Code for GENERA NAME. 27 GENERA_NAME TEXT 50 No No Active Genus taxonomic name for the point on the analyzed image (X POS, Y POS) or the subcategory classification/description. 28 X_POS NUMERIC 22 No No 38 Active X position of the analyzed point on the image. 29 Y_POS NUMERIC 22 No No Active Y position of the analyzed point on the image. 30 SURVEY_TYPE TEXT No No Active Identifies the ESD team that conducted the survey, typically 'Fish' or 'Benthic' for stratified random surveys, or 'Oceanography' for climate surveys at permanent sites. gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:36150 Troy Kanemura 2016-12-30T15:22:14 Lori Luers 2023-06-26T19:04:25 2023-06-26 Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center PIFSC 1845 Wasp Blvd. Honolulu HI 96818 USA 808-725-5300 https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 1001 Public No 2020-08-17 1 Year 2021-08-17