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NOAA Office for Coastal Management Benthic Habitat Data, Apalachicola Bay, Dry Tortugas, Florida Bay, and Indian River Lagoon, Florida, 1991-2001 (NCEI Accession 0001045)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 26, 2026 | Last Modified: 2012-07-13T00:00:00.000+00:00
These data are a collection of regional GIS (Arcview shapefiles and associated Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata) benthic habitat files from studies conducted in specific locations within Florida. Data were collected in partnership with the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (formerly the Coastal Services Center) following the guidelines detailed by the NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP). Each regions's data is held in a separate subdirectory within this dataset. These GIS benthic data vary in type and attributes depending on the purpose of the study for each region as follows - Apalachicola Bay, sediment profiling data and benthic community information gathered from grab sampling, Dry Tortugas, RoxAnn single-beam acoustic surveys which were part of a larger biogeographic characterization effort intended to characterize benthic habitats and ocean circulation patterns in the newly established Tortugas Ecological Reserve, Florida Bay, habitat polygons developed from National Geodetic Survey aerial photography according to NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) protocol, and Indian River Lagoon, mapping SAV beds and benthic habitat according to C-CAP protocol. Each set of benthic data was developed according to protocols described in the associated FGDC metadata for each regional study. A generalized browse graphic was generated at the NODC for each region and included with these data.

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0001045 BENTHIC COMMUNITIES BENTHIC SPECIES biological data BOTTOM TYPE CORAL HABITAT HABITAT - BENTHIC MACROALGAE PLANT COVER SEA GRASSES - DENSITY SEDIMENTS SHORELINE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION SUBSTRATE DESCRIPTION acoustic sensor camera photograph sediment sampler - grab visual analysis benthic biological composition & location derived products GIS product survey survey - biological survey - coral reef NOAA National Ocean Service US DOC/NOAA/NOS/Coastal Services Center COASTAL Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) CORAL REEF STUDIES Coastal Waters of Florida Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico Florida Bay - Florida Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Gulf of Mexico Indian River - Florida North American Coastline-South North Atlantic Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NOS > National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NOS/CSC > Coastal Services Center, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > ANGIOSPERMS (FLOWERING PLANTS) > MONOCOTS > SEAGRASS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MACROALGAE (SEAWEEDS) EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > SHORELINES EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES > COASTAL LANDFORMS > CORAL REEFS Acoustic Algae Benthic Habitat CSC Benthic Habitat Mapping Change CoRIS Depth Environmental Monitoring Florida Bay GIS National Estuarine Research Reserve Photogrammetry RoxAnn SAV SCHEME SPI Single-Beam Acoustics benthic data benthic grab benthic habitats benthic mapping benthos corals field verification geographic information system grain size image rectification oysters photo-interpretation seagrass sediment sediment grab sediment profile image submerged aquatic vegetation ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS CAMERA > CAMERA GRAB SAMPLERS OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO Apalachicola Apalachicola Bay Banana River Cape Canaveral Dry Tortugas East Bay Florida Florida Bay Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Gulf Coast Florida Gulf of Mexico Hobe Sound Indian River Lagoon Jupiter Sound Mosquito Lagoon St. George Sound St. Vincent Sound Tortugas Ecological Reserve

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