St. John Shallow-water Ground Validation Transects
Benthic habitat maps of the nearshore marine environment of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands were created by visual interpretation of remotely sensed imagery. The objective of this effort, conducted by NOAA's Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment - Biogeography Branch in partnership with the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), was to provide spatially-explicit information on the habitat types, biological cover and live coral cover of St. John's coral reef ecosystem. The data described herein represent evaluation transects of ground validation (GV) sites explored by NOAA field scientists to further refine habitat map classification. Considering vessel drift during habitat characterization, the entire evaluation period was most accurately represented by a series of GPS points logged at five-second intervals.
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| accessLevel | non-public |
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"fn": "NOAA National Ocean Service",
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| description | Benthic habitat maps of the nearshore marine environment of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands were created by visual interpretation of remotely sensed imagery. The objective of this effort, conducted by NOAA's Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment - Biogeography Branch in partnership with the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), was to provide spatially-explicit information on the habitat types, biological cover and live coral cover of St. John's coral reef ecosystem. The data described herein represent evaluation transects of ground validation (GV) sites explored by NOAA field scientists to further refine habitat map classification. Considering vessel drift during habitat characterization, the entire evaluation period was most accurately represented by a series of GPS points logged at five-second intervals. |
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| identifier | metadata_gvdata_shallowwater_sites_transects |
| isPartOf | Benthic Habitats of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands |
| issued | 2009-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
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"CoRIS_Metadata",
"EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat",
"Geographic Information > Habitats",
"coral reef",
"benthic habitats",
"reef",
"submerged aquatic vegetation",
"unconsolidated sediments",
"zone",
"geomorphological structure",
"biological cover",
"ground validation",
"transect",
"United States",
"U. S. Virgin Islands",
"St. John",
"COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. John > St. John (18N064W0011)",
"OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Virgin Islands > St. John (18N064W0011)",
"USVI"
]
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2009-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
{
"name": "NOAA's Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)",
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| rights | otherRestrictions |
| spatial | -64.643499,18.296091,-64.839111,18.373729 |
| temporal | 2009-01-05T00:00:00+00:00/2009-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | St. John Shallow-water Ground Validation Transects |
