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 by US Government | Academic Research

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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 Islands, 2010-03-20 To 2017-02-10

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.
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Last updated: 2025-05-22T13:20:05.647108
Tags: aquatic habitat, atlantic ocean, bathymetry/seafloor topography, benthic, benthic habitat, biosphere, caribbean sea, caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean, coastal ocean, coral reefs, corals, country/territory, culebra, culebra island (18n065w0011), doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, ecosystems, field observation, geographic area, geographic information, geospatial, grammanik bank marine conservation district, habitat mapping, habitats, hard seafloor substrate, hind bank marine conservation district, leeward islands, mapping, marine ecosystems, marine spatial ecology (mse), national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, nccos data collection, nccos habitatâ mappingâ team, nccos research data type, nccos research location, nccos research priority, nccos research topic, noaa, noaa ship nancy foster, north atlantic ocean, ocean, ocean basin, oceans, photographic analysis, pr, puerto rico, reef habitat, reef monitoring and assessment, region, st. john, st. john (18n064w0011), st. thomas, st. thomas (18n064w0033), u. s. virgin islands, u.s. caribbean, u.s. department of commerce, u.s. states and territories, u.s. virgin islands, united states of america, usvi, video, videography, vieques, vieques island, vieques island (18n065w0002), virgin islands, virgin islands coral reef national monument, virgin passage, zoology

Tables

Data Index For USVI Insular Shelf Video

@usgov.noaa_gov_nccos_assessment_underwater_video_for_ground__180a37e5.data_index_for_usvi_insular_shelf_video

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CREATE TABLE data_index_for_usvi_insular_shelf_video (
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  "project" VARCHAR,
  "geographic_region" VARCHAR,
  "site_type" VARCHAR,
  "assessment_type" VARCHAR,
  "site_id" VARCHAR,
  "date_collected" TIMESTAMP,
  "time_collected" VARCHAR,
  "latitude" DOUBLE,
  "longitude" DOUBLE,
  "northing" DOUBLE,
  "easting" DOUBLE,
  "depth" DOUBLE,
  "url_link" VARCHAR,
  "coral_reef" VARCHAR,
  "pavement" VARCHAR,
  "rhodolith" VARCHAR,
  "sand" VARCHAR,
  "hard_coral" VARCHAR,
  "soft_coral" VARCHAR,
  "macroalgae" VARCHAR,
  "sponge" VARCHAR,
  "seagrass" VARCHAR,
  "artificial" VARCHAR,
  "unknown" VARCHAR,
  "notes" VARCHAR
);