Benthic Habitat Maps of Puerto Rico Prepared by Visual Interpretation from Remote Sensing Imagery Collected by NOAA, 1999
Puerto_Rico_Benthic
eng
Dataset
environment
oceans
OceanCommunity
SAV
aerial photography
benthic
coral
environmental monitoring
habitat
mangrove
oceans
reef
seagrass
Culebra
Desecheo
Mona
Puerto Rico
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
Vieques
This project is a cooperative effort among the National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment; the United States Geological Survey; the National Park Service; and the National Geophysical Data Center to produce benthic habitat maps and georeferenced imagery for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This project was conducted in support of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force. Twenty-one distinct benthic habitat types within eight zones were mapped directly into a GIS system using visual interpretation of orthorectified aerial photographs. Benthic features were mapped that covered an area of 1600 km^2. In all, 49 km^2 of unconsolidated sediment, 721 km^2 of submerged vegetation, 73 km^2 of mangroves, and 756 km^2 of coral reef and colonized hardbottom were mapped.
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/39071
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/37210
northlimit=18.59;
eastlimit=-65.22;
southlimit=17.82;
westlimit=-68.01;
start=1999;
end=2001;
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2001-12-01