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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 Islan...

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GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:50381  |  Updated: October 17, 2023  |  Published / External 
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Short Citation
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, 2024: 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, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/50381.
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Abstract

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) video at 30 frames per second at 1080x1920 resolution. This GIS dataset depicts the location of these underwater videos, as well as the name, location, time collected, and the presence and absence of the substrate and cover types. A portion of these underwater videos (n=1,005) were used to develop the habitat predictions and the composite habitat map. A separate subset of these underwater videos (n=348) were used to assess the performance of the habitat predictions and accuracy of the composite habitat map.

For more details, see Costa et al. 2017 and Costa et al. 2018.

Keywords: Ground Validation; Accuracy Assessment; Acropora Cervicornis; Acropora Palmata; Bathymetry; Benthic Habitat; Coastal Ocean Science; Coral Reef; Insular Shelf; Seagrass; Seaviewer; Snorkel; Trimble GeoXH; Underwater Video.

Distribution Information

  • USVI Insular Shelf Benthic Habitat Map Data

    Costa, B., L. Kracker, T. Battista, W. Sautter, A. Mabrouk, K. Edwards, C. Taylor, and E. Ebert. 2018. NCCOS Assessment: Benthic Habitat Map for the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (NCEI Accession 0170098). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5930RFV

  • USVI Insular Shelf MapServer Web Service
    ESRI REST Service

    This geodatabase contains the benthic habitat maps, along with predictors and coefficients of variation for the insular shelf south of St. Thomas and St. John. Also contained within the database are the boundaries of shorelines and marine protected areas, the locations of ground validation and accuracy assessment sites, and results from fisheries acoustics surveys from the 2004-2010 Nancy Foster Seafloor mapping missions. This database will be used for the NCCOS Biomapper web mapping service which will provide users a platform to view the benthic habitat mapping layers of the Insular Shelf project.

  • USVI Insular Shelf BIOMapper Web Application
    ESRI REST Service

    A free, fully interactive, user friendly, online platform designed to let users explore benthic habitat mapping data. Users can create fully customizable maps by clicking on a data layer in the table of contents and display aerial and acoustic imagery rasters, benthic habitat and geographic zone shapefiles, and ground validation/accuracy assessment video sites. Ground validation and accuracy assessment videos are available for viewing (streaming) and for download in standard or high resolution.

  • Data Index for USVI Insular Shelf Video
    CSV - Comma Separated Values (Text)

    Data index containing file-level documentation for all video including benthic habitat characteristics: FID; PROJECT; GEOGRAPHIC REGION; SITE TYPE; ASSESSMENT TYPE; SITE ID; DATE COLLECTED; TIME COLLECTED; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; NORTHING; EASTING; DEPTH; URL LINK; CORAL REEF; PAVEMENT; RHODOLITH; SAND; HARD CORAL; SOFT CORAL; MACROALGAE; SPONGE; SEAGRASS; ARTIFICIAL; UNKNOWN; NOTES (from the field or the data managers).

  • USVI Insular Shelf Videos
    MP4

    Online directory containing video files.

Access Constraints:

None

Use Constraints:

None

Controlled Theme Keywords

BENTHIC

Child Items

No Child Items for this record.

Contact Information

Point of Contact
Will Sautter
will.sautter@noaa.gov

Metadata Contact
NCCOS Scientific Data Coordinator
NCCOS.data@noaa.gov

Extents

Geographic Area 1

-65.2605° W, -64.6584° E, 18.31073° N, 18.12015° S

Time Frame 1
2010-03-20 - 2017-02-10

Accuracy Assessment data collection

Item Identification

Title: 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
Short Name: NCCOS Video: USVI Insular Shelf Mapping
Status: Completed
Publication Date: 2017-11
Abstract:

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) video at 30 frames per second at 1080x1920 resolution. This GIS dataset depicts the location of these underwater videos, as well as the name, location, time collected, and the presence and absence of the substrate and cover types. A portion of these underwater videos (n=1,005) were used to develop the habitat predictions and the composite habitat map. A separate subset of these underwater videos (n=348) were used to assess the performance of the habitat predictions and accuracy of the composite habitat map.

For more details, see Costa et al. 2017 and Costa et al. 2018.

Keywords: Ground Validation; Accuracy Assessment; Acropora Cervicornis; Acropora Palmata; Bathymetry; Benthic Habitat; Coastal Ocean Science; Coral Reef; Insular Shelf; Seagrass; Seaviewer; Snorkel; Trimble GeoXH; Underwater Video.
Purpose:

The insular shelf south of St. Thomas and St. John, in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) is an expansive geomorphologic feature with extensive mesophotic coral reefs occurring at 30 to 150 meter depths. These mesophotic reefs are part of a broader coral reef community in the U.S. Caribbean that provide a wide range of ecosystem goods and services estimated to provide $187 million per year (in 2007 US dollars) to local communities. While these reefs provide great economic value to local communities, they are increasingly under threat from multiple human-caused stressors, making it critical for the USVI and Puerto Rico jurisdictions to find ways to preserve and sustainably manage them. Ideally, the first step in any marine management process is to comprehensively map and inventory the location of coral reef resources. The geographic information system (GIS) layers and products provided in this report represent the first complete habitat map for the insular shelf south of St. Thomas and St. John. These products also represent the culmination of an extensive seafloor mapping campaign conducted by NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) in collaboration with regional partners.
Other Citation Details:

Cited Publications:

Costa, B., L.M. Kracker, T. Battista, W. Sautter, A. Mabrouk, K. Edwards, C. Taylor, and E. Ebert. 2017. Benthic Habitat Maps for the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 241. Silver Spring, MD. 59 pp. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-NOS-NCCOS-241

Costa, B., L. Kracker, T. Battista, W. Sautter, A. Mabrouk, K. Edwards, C. Taylor, and E. Ebert. 2018. NCCOS Assessment: Benthic Habitat Map for the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (NCEI Accession 0170098). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5930RFV
Supplemental Information:

Collaborators: Will Sautter, Dr. Ayman Mabrouk, Kimberly Edwards, Arliss Winship (US DOC; NOAA; NOS; National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science). Kevin McCartney (CrewZen VI Charters). Lance Horn, Glen Taylor (University of North Carolina at Wilmington Undersea Vehicles Program).

Partner Entities: NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aircraft Operations (OMAO) NOAA ship Nancy Foster. University of North Carolina at Wilmington Undersea Vehicles Program.

Base Funding: US DOC; NOAA; NOS; National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), NCCOS Project #284, “Benthic Habitat Maps of the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John.”

Other Funding: US DOC; NOAA; NOS; Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP). Other Project: CRCP Project #30081, “Benthic Habitat Maps of the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John.”

Keywords

Theme Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC
UNCONTROLLED
CoRIS Discovery Geographic Information > Habitats
CoRIS Theme EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat
CoRIS Theme EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Reef Habitat
CoRIS Theme EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Mapping > Habitat Mapping
CoRIS Theme EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Photographic Analysis > Videography
CoRIS Theme EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Hard Seafloor Substrate
NCCOS NCCOS Research Data Type > Field Observation
NCCOS NCCOS Research Data Type > Geospatial
NCCOS NCCOS Research Data Type > NCCOS Data Collection
NCCOS NCCOS Research Data Type > Video
NCCOS NCCOS Research Priority > Marine Spatial Ecology (MSE)
NCCOS NCCOS Research Topic > Coral Reefs
NCCOS NCCOS Research Topic > Habitat Mapping
NOAA Ships NOAA Ship Nancy Foster

Spatial Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA > VIRGIN ISLANDS
UNCONTROLLED
CoRIS Place COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Puerto Rico > Culebra Island (18N065W0011)
CoRIS Place COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Puerto Rico > Vieques > Vieques Island (18N065W0002)
CoRIS Place COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. John > St. John (18N064W0011)
CoRIS Place COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. Thomas > St. Thomas (18N064W0033)
CoRIS Place OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea /North Atlantic Ocean > Puerto Rico > Culebra Island (18N065W0011)
CoRIS Place OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea /North Atlantic Ocean > Puerto Rico > Vieques Island > Vieques Island (18N065W0002)
CoRIS Place OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Leeward Islands > St. Thomas (18N064W0033)
CoRIS Place OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Virgin Islands > St. John (18N064W0011)
Marine Protected Areas Grammanik Bank Marine Conservation District
Marine Protected Areas Hind Bank Marine Conservation District
Marine Protected Areas Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument
NCCOS NCCOS Research Location > Geographic Area > Coastal Ocean
NCCOS NCCOS Research Location > Geographic Area > Coral Reefs
NCCOS NCCOS Research Location > Region > U.S. Caribbean
NCCOS NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > U.S. Virgin Islands
Sea Areas Caribbean Sea
Sea Areas Culebra, PR
Sea Areas St. John, USVI
Sea Areas St. Thomas, USVI
Sea Areas Vieques, PR
Sea Areas Virgin Passage

Physical Location

Organization: National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
City: Silver Spring
State/Province: MD

Data Set Information

Data Set Scope Code: Data Set
Data Presentation Form: Video (digital)

Support Roles

Data Steward

CC ID: 696795
Date Effective From: 2017
Date Effective To:
Contact (Position): NCCOS Scientific Data Coordinator
Email Address: NCCOS.data@noaa.gov

Distributor

CC ID: 1087245
Date Effective From: 2018
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland (NCEI-MD)
Address: NOAA/NESDIS E/OC SSMC3, 4th Floor, 1351 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3282
Phone: (301) 713-3277

Distributor

CC ID: 696793
Date Effective From: 2017
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
Address: 1305 East West Highway, Rm 8110
Silver Spring, MD 20910
URL: http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/

Metadata Contact

CC ID: 696796
Date Effective From: 2017
Date Effective To:
Contact (Position): NCCOS Scientific Data Coordinator
Email Address: NCCOS.data@noaa.gov

Point of Contact

CC ID: 696794
Date Effective From: 2017
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Sautter, Will
Email Address: will.sautter@noaa.gov

Principal Investigator

CC ID: 696797
Date Effective From: 2017
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Costa, Bryan
Email Address: bryan.costa@noaa.gov

Extents

Extent Group 1

Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1

CC ID: 696791
W° Bound: -65.2605
E° Bound: -64.6584
N° Bound: 18.31073
S° Bound: 18.12015

Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1

CC ID: 696788
Time Frame Type: Range
Start: 2010-03-20
End: 2017-02-10
Description:

Accuracy Assessment data collection

Access Information

Security Class: Unclassified
Data Access Procedure:

Download from website
Data Access Constraints:

None
Data Use Constraints:

None

Distribution Information

Distribution 1

CC ID: 721314
Start Date: 2018
End Date: Present
Download URL: https://doi.org/10.7289/V5930RFV
Distributor: National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland (NCEI-MD) (2018 - Present)
File Name: USVI Insular Shelf Benthic Habitat Map Data
Description:

Costa, B., L. Kracker, T. Battista, W. Sautter, A. Mabrouk, K. Edwards, C. Taylor, and E. Ebert. 2018. NCCOS Assessment: Benthic Habitat Map for the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (NCEI Accession 0170098). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5930RFV
File Type (Deprecated): NCEI Data Archive Accession

Distribution 2

CC ID: 696828
Start Date: 2018
End Date: Present
Download URL: https://gis.ngdc.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/nccos/BenthicMapping_USVIInsularShelf2017/MapServer
Distributor: National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland (NCEI-MD) (2018 - Present)
File Name: USVI Insular Shelf MapServer Web Service
Description:

This geodatabase contains the benthic habitat maps, along with predictors and coefficients of variation for the insular shelf south of St. Thomas and St. John. Also contained within the database are the boundaries of shorelines and marine protected areas, the locations of ground validation and accuracy assessment sites, and results from fisheries acoustics surveys from the 2004-2010 Nancy Foster Seafloor mapping missions. This database will be used for the NCCOS Biomapper web mapping service which will provide users a platform to view the benthic habitat mapping layers of the Insular Shelf project.
File Type (Deprecated): ESRI Map Service
Distribution Format: ESRI REST Service

Distribution 3

CC ID: 696798
Start Date: 2017
End Date: Present
Download URL: https://maps.coastalscience.noaa.gov/biomapper/biomapper.html?id=insular
Distributor: National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) (2017 - Present)
File Name: USVI Insular Shelf BIOMapper Web Application
Description:

A free, fully interactive, user friendly, online platform designed to let users explore benthic habitat mapping data. Users can create fully customizable maps by clicking on a data layer in the table of contents and display aerial and acoustic imagery rasters, benthic habitat and geographic zone shapefiles, and ground validation/accuracy assessment video sites. Ground validation and accuracy assessment videos are available for viewing (streaming) and for download in standard or high resolution.
File Type (Deprecated): ESRI Map Service
Distribution Format: ESRI REST Service

Distribution 4

CC ID: 696799
Start Date: 2017
End Date: Present
Download URL: https://nccospublicstor.blob.core.windows.net/biomapper/usviinsularshelf2017/documentation/InsularShelf2017_GVAA_DataIndex.csv
Distributor: National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) (2017 - Present)
File Name: Data Index for USVI Insular Shelf Video
Description:

Data index containing file-level documentation for all video including benthic habitat characteristics: FID; PROJECT; GEOGRAPHIC REGION; SITE TYPE; ASSESSMENT TYPE; SITE ID; DATE COLLECTED; TIME COLLECTED; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; NORTHING; EASTING; DEPTH; URL LINK; CORAL REEF; PAVEMENT; RHODOLITH; SAND; HARD CORAL; SOFT CORAL; MACROALGAE; SPONGE; SEAGRASS; ARTIFICIAL; UNKNOWN; NOTES (from the field or the data managers).

File Type (Deprecated): .csv
Distribution Format: CSV - Comma Separated Values (Text)

Distribution 5

CC ID: 696800
Start Date: 2017
End Date: Present
Download URL: https://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/biomapper_explorer/index.php?path=b1Awa3pNeUl0Y0JHMnlTZlk5dHlIM0FTTXFtZXh5bGdPdkhZZEdLdTh2OD0=
Distributor: National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) (2017 - Present)
File Name: USVI Insular Shelf Videos
Description:

Online directory containing video files.
File Type (Deprecated): MP4
Distribution Format: MP4

URLs

URL 1

CC ID: 696802
URL: https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/habitat-map-insular-shelf-south-of-st-thomas-st-john/
Name: Project Webpage
URL Type:
Online Resource
Description:

NCCOS Research Project Webpage: Developing a Benthic Habitat Map for the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John

URL 2

CC ID: 696803
URL: https://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/collections/benthic/default.aspx
Name: Data Webpage
URL Type:
Online Resource
Description:

NCCOS Data Collections: Benthic Habitat Mapping

URL 3

CC ID: 1087255
URL: https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/csmedia/2017/09/NCCOS-with-tag-to-side-wht-bld.png
Name: Browse Graphic: NCCOS
URL Type:
Browse Graphic
Browse Graphic: NCCOS
Description:

Browse Graphic: NCCOS

Activity Log

Activity Log 1

CC ID: 1087246
Activity Date/Time: 2021-09-22
Activity Type: Metadata review
Responsible Party: Jessica Morgan
Description:

Reviewed metadata, edited keywords (switched from uncontrolled to controlled), added NCEI as Distributor, edited Distributions, edited URLs.

Data Quality

Completeness Report:

For details of data quality control methods, see Costa et al. 2017. All users should independently analyze the dataset according to their own needs and standards to determine data usability.

Lineage

Sources

Costa, B., L.M. Kracker, T. Battista, W. Sautter, A. Mabrouk, K. Edwards, C. Taylor, and E. Ebert. 2017. Benthic Habitat Maps for the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 241. Silver Spring, MD. 59 pp. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-NOS-NCCOS-241

CC ID: 696807
Citation URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-NOS-NCCOS-241
Citation URL Name: Publication
Citation URL Description:

NCCOS Tech Memo 241

Process Steps

Process Step 1

CC ID: 696808
Description:

The process for collecting both the GV and AA data was identical at each site in the field. Sites were accessed via small boat using a hand-held Garmin 76 global positioning system (GPS) unit. Once the drop camera was deployed, boat location and drift was recorded every five seconds for the duration of the underwater video using a Trimble GeoXH GPS receiver. As the video camera was deployed to the bottom, the presence and absence of the five substrate and four cover types were recorded at each site in real time on the Trimble GeoXH. Once back in the office, GPS data were post-processed and differentially corrected using the closest Continually Operating Reference System (CORS) station, which were on St. Thomas (station STVI), Culebra Island, Puerto Rico (station CUPR) and St. Croix (station CR01). All underwater videos were reviewed a second time by benthic experts and the presence (1) and absence (0) of each substrate and cover type were confirmed in the office. Multiple substrate and cover types were often present at each site. For a complete description of the processing and analysis methods see Costa et al. 2017.
Process Contact: Sautter, Will
Email Address: will.sautter@noaa.gov

Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID: 50381
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:50381
Metadata Record Created By: Jessica Morgan
Metadata Record Created: 2017-11-27 10:22+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By: SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Last Modified: 2023-10-17 16:12+0000
Metadata Record Published: 2021-04-07
Owner Org: NCCOS
Metadata Publication Status: Published Externally
Do Not Publish?: N
Metadata Last Review Date: 2021-04-07
Metadata Review Frequency: 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date: 2022-04-07