Deep-sea Soft Coral Habitat Suitability

Office for Coastal Management
Data Set (DS) | ID: 48877 | Published / External
Created: 2017-11-14   |   Last Modified: 2023-05-30

Parent: MarineCadastre
Project (PRJ) | ID: 37232

ID: 48877
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Item Identification

* » Title Deep-sea Soft Coral Habitat Suitability
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* Status Completed
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• Publication Date 2017-09-20
* » Abstract

Deep-sea corals, also known as cold water corals, create complex communities that provide habitat for a variety of invertebrate and fish species, such as grouper, snapper, and sea bass. The map depicts the relative likelihood of finding suitable habitat for soft corals at a given location and is a prediction based on a statistical model relating several environmental characteristics to the presence of soft corals using observations of soft coral. Soft corals, unlike stony corals, do not form calcium-based skeletons. A common example of a soft coral is a sea fan. Please also reference the "Deep-Sea Stony Coral Habitat Suitability" layer. Predictions from these habitat suitability models can be used to support conservation and management of deep-sea corals and to assist with targeting areas for mapping and exploration.
* Purpose

To support ocean planning activities pursuant to the Executive Order Regarding the Ocean Policy to Advance the Economic, Security, and Environmental Interests of the United States, the Energy Policy Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Coastal Zone Management Act.
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Bureau Code: 006:48, Program Code: 006:055
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT
ISO 19115 Topic Category biota
ISO 19115 Topic Category environment
ISO 19115 Topic Category oceans
None coastal
None planning
None renewable energy
   
   
   

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* Spatial Keywords

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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
None Exclusive Economic Zone
None Outer Continental Shelf
None Territorial Sea
None United States of America
   
   
   

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Physical Location

• » Organization Office for Coastal Management
• » City Charleston
• » State/Province SC
• Country  
• » Location Description

Data Set Information

* Data Set Scope Code Data Set
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• Maintenance Frequency As Needed
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• Entity Attribute Overview

predictedLikelihood
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https://www.marinecadastre.gov/about/disclaimer.html
Data Set Credit NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, NOAA Office for Coastal Management, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

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* » Date Effective From 2017-09-20
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Organization NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address 2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone (843) 740-1202
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Currentness Reference Publication Date

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Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1

* » W° Bound -96.723789
* » E° Bound -64.995977
* » N° Bound 44.641853
* » S° Bound 23.580831
* » Description

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* » Start 2017-09
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* » Security Class Unclassified
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» Data Access Procedure
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None
• Data Use Constraints

For coastal and ocean planning
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Distribution Information

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» Download URL https://marinecadastre.gov/data/
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MarineCadastre.gov Data Registry
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» Download URL https://marinecadastre.gov/downloads/data/mc/DeepSeaSoftCoralHabitatSuitability.zip
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Activity Time 2017-09-20
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Activity Time 2017-11-14
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Description

Converted from FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using 'fgdc_to_inport_xml.pl' script. Contact Tyler Christensen (NOS) for details.
Activity Time 2018-02-08
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Partial upload of Positional Accuracy fields only.
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Untested
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Compiled to meet 10 meters horizontal accuracy at 95% confidence level
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» Do these Data Comply with the Data Access Directive?  
» Is Access to the Data Limited Based on an Approved Waiver?  
» If Distributor (Data Hosting Service) is Needed, Please Indicate  
» Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Dissemination  
» If Delay is Longer than Latency of Automated Processing, Indicate Under What Authority Data Access is Delayed  
 
» Actual or Planned Long-Term Data Archive Location  
» If World Data Center or Other, Specify  
» If To Be Determined, Unable to Archive, or No Archiving Intended, Explain  
 
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» How Will the Data Be Protected from Accidental or Malicious Modification or Deletion Prior to Receipt by the Archive?  
 

Lineage

» Lineage Statement

Sources

Citation Title Thresholded Logistic Outputs
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Contact Name NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Publish Date 2013-01-01
Extent Type Discrete
Extent Start Date/Time 2013
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Citation URL https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=35
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Raster images were obtained from NOAA NCCOS and averaged and combined into habitat suitability models by NOAA OCM | Type of Source Media: online
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Process Steps

Process Step Number 1
» Description

+ Download the 3 zip files from https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=35:

DSC_PredictiveModeling_US_Northeast_MidAtlantic.zip

DSC_PredictiveModeling_US_Southeast.zip

DSC_PredictiveModeling_US_Gulf_of_Mexico.zip

+ From each zip file, extract the ESRI_Grid folder from the Thresholded_Logistic_Outputs folders

+ For each location, separate rasters into soft and stony:

GOM Soft GOM Stony SE Soft SE Stony NE Soft NE Stony

ALCY LOPHPERT ALCY ENALPROF ALCY SCLER

ALCYGORG MADRAC ALCYCALCAX LOPHPERT ALCYGORG SCLERCARYO

ALCYNONGORG MADREP ALCYGORG MADROCUL ALCYNONGORG SCLERFLABELL

ANTI SCLER ALCYHOLAX OCULSPP PENN

BEBR SCLERFRAME ALCYNONGORG SCLERFRAME PENNSESS

CALLO SCLERNONFRAME ANTI SCLERNONFRAME PENNSUBSESS

ELLIS PENN STYL

GORG

HYPNO

ISID

PARA

PLEX

+ Using the Raster Calculator, Average each of the 6 groupings into a new raster

+ Project each output into WGS 1984 Auxiliary Sphere

+ Mosaic to New Raster the 3 soft coral rasters and the 3 stony coral rasters using MEAN as the mosaic operator

+ Convert Raster to Polygon the soft coral raster and the stony coral raster, unchecking the box to simplify polygons

+ In each feature class, select features where gridcode = 0 and switch selection

+ Dissolve both feature classes on gridcode field, unchecking the box to create multipart features

+ Rename gridcode field to value
Process Date/Time 2017-05-01 00:00:00
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» Description

Working from data processed in May 2017:

1. Renamed value field to "predictedLikelihood"

2. Created Domain for predictedLikelihood field based on NCCOS documentation for Low (0-1), Medium-Low (1-2), Medium (2-5), High (6-9), and Very High (10) thresholded values.

3. Assigned Domain to predictedLikelihood field.

4. Updated cartography and legend based on these new descriptor values.

5. Created new layer file.
Process Date/Time 2017-08-29 00:00:00
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  Entity (ENT) DeepSeaSoftCoralHabitatSuitablility
     
     
     

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Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID 48877
Metadata Record Created By Anne Ball
Metadata Record Created 2017-11-14 15:55+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By SysAdmin InPortAdmin
» Metadata Record Last Modified 2023-05-30 18:09+0000
Metadata Record Published 2018-02-08
Owner Org OCM
Metadata Publication Status Published Externally
Do Not Publish? N
Metadata Workflow State Published / External
Metadata Last Review Date 2018-02-08
Metadata Review Frequency 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date 2019-02-08
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