AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
NOAA TIFF Image - SouthWest Shelf, St. Croix, USVI - Benthic Habitat Characterization - NOAA Ship Nancy Foster - M-1907-NF-14 (2014), UTM 20N NAD83

This image represents a 1 meter resolution bathymetry of the reef shelf and the steep slopes of the Southwest Shelf (H12640) of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. The M-I907-NF-14 survey was a continuation of the NOAA Biogeography Branch's Seafloor Mapping of the US Caribbean project. NOAA's NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Team, in collaboration with NOAA vessel Nancy Foster and territory, federal, and private sector partners, acquired multibeam bathymetry data in St. Croix between March 12th and April 2, 2014. Data was acquired with a hull-mounted Reson 7125 multibeam echosounder (400 kHz) and processed by a NOAA contractor using CARIS HIPS software. Data has all correctors applied (attitude, sound velocity) and has been reduced to mean lower low water (MLLW) using final approved tides from NOAA COOPS. Data is in UTM zone 20 north, datum NAD83. The bathymetry data were geometrically and radiometrically corrected using Hypack 2014 acquisition software. The project was conducted to meet IHO order 1 and 2 accuracy standards, dependent on the project area and depth. All users should individually evaluate the suitability of this data according to their own needs and standards.

Tags: 2014, aquatic habitat, bathymetry, bathymetry/seafloor topography, bathymetry/topography, benthic, biogeography, biosphere, caribbean sea, coral, country/territory, description, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, geographic information, geotiff, gis, h12639, h12640, habitat, integrated ocean and coastal mapping, iocm, lang bank, m1907-nf-14, mbes, multibeam, nancy foster, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, nf14, noaa, oceans, raster, reef, reef habitat, reson 7125, seafloor, seafloor mapping, seafloor mapping of the us caribbean, seafloormapping_uscaribbean_2004toongoing, sonar, southwest bank, st. croix, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, us virgin islands
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Vectorized Shoreline of Tutuila, Ofu, Olosega, Rose, Swains, and Ta'u American Samoa, Derived from IKONOS Imagery, 2001

IKONOS imagery was purchased to support the Pacific Islands Geographic Information System (GIS) project and the National Ocean Service's (NOS) coral mapping activities. One-meter panchromatic and four-meter multi-spectral data were purchased for each study area. A digital vector shoreline was manually digitized from the one-meter panchromatic imagery to provide accurate, up-to-date shoreline data.

Tags: coastal zone, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, ikonos, ikonos multispectral imagery, ikonos panchromatic imagery, land/water interface, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, oceania, oceans, ofu, olosega, pac_terr, pacific islands gis, rose, shoreline, shoreline data, shoreline vectorization, swains, ta'u, territory of american samoa, tutuila, u.s. department of commerce, united states, vectorization
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Orthorectification and Mosaicking of Color Aerial Photography for the Main Eight Hawaiian Islands: Kauai (113-0531)

Habitat maps of the main Hawaiian Islands were created by visual interpretation of aerial photos and hyperspectral imagery using the Habitat Digitizer extension.  Aerial photographs are valuable tools for natural resource managers and researchers since they provide an excellent record of the location and extent of habitats.  However, spatial distortions in aerial photographs due to such factors as camera angle, lens characteristics, and relief displacement must be accounted for during analysis to prevent incorrect measurements of area, distance, and other spatial parameters.  These distortions of scale within an image can be removed through orthorectification.  During orthorectification, digital scans of aerial photos are subjected to algorithms that eliminate each source of spatial distortion.  The result is a georeferenced digital mosaic of several photographs with uniform scale throughout the mosaic. Features near land are generally georeferenced with greater accuracy while the accuracy of features away from land is generally not as good.  Where no land is in the original photographic frame only kinematic GPS locations and image tie points were used to georeference the images.  After an orthorectified mosaic is created, photointerpreters can accurately and reliably delineate boundaries of features in the imagery as they appear on the computer monitor using a software interface such as the Habitat Digitizer.

Tags: aerial photography, benthic, coral, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, environmental monitoring, habitat, hawaii, hawaii_images_2000, kauai, mangrove, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, oceans, reef, remotely sensed imagery/photos, sav, seagrass, u.s. department of commerce, u.s. exclusive economic zone, united states
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Lanai IKONOS and Quickbird Imagery - Mosaic

This project is a cooperative effort between the National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, BAE Systems Spectral Solutions LLC, and Analytical Laboratories of Hawaii, LLC.  IKONOS and Quickbird imagery was purchased to support the Pacific Islands Geographic Information System (GIS) project and the National Ocean Service's (NOS) coral mapping activities. One-meter panchromatic and four-meter multi-spectral data were purchased for each study area. The enhanced spectral resolution of multispectral imagery and control of bandwidths of multispectral data yield an advantage over color aerial photography particularly when coral health and time series analysis of coral reef community structure are of interest. The IKONOS and Quickbird imagery was processed to minimize atmospheric and water column effects. Photointerpreters can accurately and reliably delineate boundaries of features in the imagery as they appear on the computer monitor using a software interface such as the Habitat Digitizer.

Tags: 2007 hawaiian benthic habitat maps, benthic, biosphere, central pacific ocean, coral, corals, country/territory, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, environmental monitoring, habitat, habitat mapping, hawaii, hawaii_2007, hawaiian islands, ikonos, ikonos imagery, lanai, lanai island, lanai island (20n156w0002), mangrove, map images, mapping, maui, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, ocean basin, pacific ocean, quickbird, quickbird imagery, reef, reef monitoring and assessment, remote sensing, remotely sensed imagery/photos, satellite (digital scans), sav, seagrass, u.s. department of commerce, united states, united states of america, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Oahu Accuracy Assessment Point Data for Benthic Habitats of the Main Hawaiian Islands Prepared by Visual Interpretation from Remote Sensing Imagery Collected by NOAA Year 2000

This project is a cooperative effort among the National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment; the University of Hawaii; and Analytical Laboratories of Hawaii, LLC. The goal of the work was to develop coral reef mapping methods and compare benthic habitat maps generated by photointerpreting georeferenced color aerial photography, hyperspectral and IKONOS satellite imagery. The cost effectiveness of acquisition and processing of remotely sensed imagery varies significantly between types of platforms deployed and imaging systems used to acquire the data.  As a result, it is important to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the map products prepared from each of the types of digital imagery. These Accuracy Assessment point data were generated to assess the accuracy of the individual maps created from the three types of source information.Testing showed that the ability to generate benthic habitat maps with an overall accuracy of 90% to 95% confidence interval is reaching a threshold using imagery with three meter pixel size allowing for spectral enhancement of the imagery with reduced resolution.  Increasing the intensity of field observation can partially compensate for this decrease in accuracy of the maps generated from the largest pixels.  Habitat maps prepared from IKONOS satellite imagery should be accompanied by field observation wherever possible.

Tags: coral reef, coralline algae, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, environmental monitoring, habitat, hawaii, hawaii_2000, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, oahu, oceans, point, reef, submerged aquatic vegetation, u.s. department of commerce, u.s. exclusive economic zone, unconsolidated sediments, united states, zone
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Orthorectification and Mosaicking of Color Aerial Photography for the Main Eight Hawaiian Islands: Niihau (116-0430)

Habitat maps of the main Hawaiian Islands were created by visual interpretation of aerial photos and hyperspectral imagery using the Habitat Digitizer extension.  Aerial photographs are valuable tools for natural resource managers and researchers since they provide an excellent record of the location and extent of habitats.  However, spatial distortions in aerial photographs due to such factors as camera angle, lens characteristics, and relief displacement must be accounted for during analysis to prevent incorrect measurements of area, distance, and other spatial parameters.  These distortions of scale within an image can be removed through orthorectification.  During orthorectification, digital scans of aerial photos are subjected to algorithms that eliminate each source of spatial distortion.  The result is a georeferenced digital mosaic of several photographs with uniform scale throughout the mosaic. Features near land are generally georeferenced with greater accuracy while the accuracy of features away from land is generally not as good.  Where no land is in the original photographic frame only kinematic GPS locations and image tie points were used to georeference the images.  After an orthorectified mosaic is created, photointerpreters can accurately and reliably delineate boundaries of features in the imagery as they appear on the computer monitor using a software interface such as the Habitat Digitizer.

Tags: aerial photography, benthic, coral, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, environmental monitoring, habitat, hawaii, hawaii_images_2000, mangrove, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, niihau, noaa, oceans, reef, remotely sensed imagery/photos, sav, seagrass, u.s. department of commerce, u.s. exclusive economic zone, united states
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Benthic Habitats of the Northern Mariana Archipelago Derived From IKONOS Imagery, 2001-2003

This project is a cooperative effort among the National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment; the University of Hawaii; BAE Systems Spectral Solutions; and Analytical Laboratories of Hawaii, LLC. The goal of the work was to map the coral reef habitats of American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands by visual interpretation and manual delineation of IKONOS satellite imagery.A two tiered habitat classification system was tested and implemented in this work.  It integrates geomorphologic reef structure and biological cover into a single scheme and subsets each into detail.  It also includes thirteen zones.  Benthic features were mapped that covered an area of 45.2 square kilometers of which 4.4 were unconsolidated sediment and 40.9 were coral reef and hard bottom.  Of the coral reef and hard bottom class, 59.9% is colonized by greater than 10% coral cover.

Tags: cnmi, coral reef, coralline algae, cover, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, environmental monitoring, habitat, mariana islands, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, pac_terr, reef, structure, submerged aquatic vegetation, u.s. department of commerce, unconsolidated sediments, united states, zone
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
NOAA TIFF Image - 3m Bathymetry Mosaic, Florida Deep Coral Areas -  Lost Coast Explorer - (2010), UTM 17N NAD83

This dataset contains a unified GeoTiff with 3x3 meter cell size representing bathymetry of several deep coral priority areas off the Atlantic Coast of Florida, derived from data collected in November 2010. NOAA's NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Branch, in collaboration with NOAA vessel Ron Brown, as well as federal, university, and private sector partners, acquired multibeam bathymetry data off the Atlantic Coast of Florida from 10/26/2010 to 10/27/2010. Data was acquired with a hull-mounted Kongsberg EM 710 multibeam echosounder (70 kHz).  It was processed by a NOAA contractor using CARIS HIPS software. Attitude and sound velocity correctors applied to the data. Verified tides were not applied to the data, leaving the depth values referenced to the ellipsoid. The imagery is projected in the UTM Zone 17 north, NAD83 datum. The processed CARIS data was used to generate a CARIS BASE surface based on swath angle. The CARIS Export option "BASE Surface to Image" was then used to create a GeoTiff of the priority areas.

Tags: (27n080w0003), 2010, aquatic habitat, atlantic ocean, bathymetry, bathymetry/seafloor topography, bathymetry/topography, benthic, biogeography, biosphere, coral, country/territory, deep corals, deep_coral, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, florida, geographic information, gis, habitat, kongsberg em710, lost coast explorer, mbes, miami, mosaic, multibeam, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, oceans, raster, reef, reef habitat, seafloor, sonar, tiff, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
NOAA ESRI Geotiff - 3m Multibeam Bathymetry of Puerto Rico (La Parguera), Project NF-06-03, 2006, UTM 19 NAD83

This dataset contains an ESRI Geotiff with 3 meter cell size representing the bathymetry of the southwest shore of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. NOAA's NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Team, in collaboration with NOAA vessel Nancy Foster and territory, federal, and private sector partners, acquired multibeam bathymetry data in the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico from 3/21/06 to 4/2/06. Data was acquired with a hull-mounted Kongsberg Simrad EM 1002 multibeam echosounder (95 kHz) and processed by a NOAA contractor using CARIS HIPS software. Data has all correctors applied (attitude, sound velocity) and has been reduced to mean lower low water (MLLW) using final approved tides and zoning from NOAA COOPS. Data is in UTM zone 19 north, datum NAD83. The processed CARIS data was used to generate a CARIS BASE surface based on swath angle. An ASCII XYZ file was exported from the BASE surface and opened in ESRI ArcMap 9 as an XY event. Then the ArcToolbox conversion tool 'Feature to Raster' was used to generate the final ESRI Geotiff.The project was conducted to meet IHO Order 1 and 2 accuracy standards, dependant on the project area and depth. All users should individually evaluate the suitability of this data according to their own needs and standards.

Tags: 2006, aquatic habitat, atlantic ocean, bathymetry, bathymetry/seafloor topography, bathymetry/topography, benthic, biogeography, biosphere, caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean, coral, country/territory, description, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, geographic information, geotiff, gis, habitat, integrated ocean and coastal mapping, iocm, la parguera, la parguera (17n067w0002), mbes, multibeam, nancy foster, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, nps, ocean basin, oceans, puerto rico, raster, reef, reef habitat, seafloor, seafloormapping_uscaribbean_2004toongoing, simrad em 1002, sonar, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, us virgin islands, usvi
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
NOAA ESRI Geotiff - 2m Multibeam Bathymetry of St. Croix (Buck Island), US Virgin Islands, Project NF-06-03, 2006, UTM 20 NAD83

This dataset contains an ESRI Geotiff with 2 meter cell size representing the bathymetry of the north shore of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. NOAA's NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Team, in collaboration with NOAA vessel Nancy Foster and territory, federal, and private sector partners, acquired multibeam bathymetry data in the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico from 3/21/06 to 4/2/06. Data was acquired with a hull-mounted Kongsberg Simrad EM 1002 multibeam echosounder (95 kHz) and processed by a NOAA contractor using CARIS HIPS software. Data has all correctors applied (attitude, sound velocity) and has been reduced to mean lower low water (MLLW) using final approved tides and zoning from NOAA COOPS. Data is in UTM zone 20 north, datum NAD83. The processed CARIS data was used to generate a CARIS BASE surface based on swath angle. An ASCII XYZ file was exported from the BASE surface and opened in ESRI ArcMap 9.1 as an XY event. Then the ArcToolbox conversion tool 'Feature to Raster' was used to generate the final ESRI Geotiff.The project was conducted to meet IHO Order 1 and 2 accuracy standards, dependant on the project area and depth. All users should individually evaluate the suitability of this data according to their own needs and standards.

Tags: 2006, aquatic habitat, atlantic ocean, bathymetry, bathymetry/seafloor topography, bathymetry/topography, benthic, biogeography, biosphere, birnm, buck island, buck island (17n064w0006), buck island reef national monument, caribbean sea, coral, country/territory, description, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, geographic information, geotiff, gis, habitat, integrated ocean and coastal mapping, iocm, mbes, multibeam, nancy foster, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, nps, ocean basin, oceans, raster, reef, reef habitat, seafloor, seafloormapping_uscaribbean_2004toongoing, simrad em 1002, sonar, st. croix, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, us virgin islands, usvi, virgin islands
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
NOAA Polyline Shapefile - Drop Camera transects, US Caribbean  Virgin Passage and St. John Shelf - Project NF-03-10-USVI-HAB - (2010), UTM 20N NAD83

This shapefile denotes the location of underwater video that was collected by NOAA scientists using a SeaViewer drop camera system. Video was collected between 03/18/2010 and 04/05/2010 at 104 locations within two selected areas of seafloor south of St. Thomas and St. John, USVI. These videos will be manually classified into different habitat classes, and integrated with the abiotic data collected by the acoustic SoNAR (sound navigation and ranging) systems to develop a benthic habitat map for the U.S. Caribbean. Habitat maps describe the location of habitat features (in relation to the shoreline), their physical composition and the types of organisms that colonize them. Fundamentally, habitat maps provide critical information about the extent, health and composition of marine resources, which is vital for communicating information about the distribution and abundance of species to resource managers, scientists and the public.  Habitat maps also support an increasing number of landscape ecology studies, as well as the process of marine spatial planning, including the design and evaluation of marine protected areas (MPAs).

Tags: atlantic ocean, benthic habitats, biological cover, biosphere, caribbean sea, caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean, coral reef, corals, country/territory, culebra island, culebra island (18n066w0002), doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, geographic information, geomorphological structure, ground validation, habitat mapping, habitats, leeward islands, lesser antilles, mapping, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, ocean basin, puerto rico, reef, reef monitoring and assessment, seafloormapping_uscaribbean_2004toongoing, st. john, st. john (18n064w0011), st. thomas, st. thomas (18n064w0033), submerged aquatic vegetation, transect, u. s. virgin islands, u. s. virgin islands (17n064w0000), u.s. department of commerce, unconsolidated sediments, united states of america, us virgin islands, usvi, vieques, vieques island, vieques island (18n065w0002), virgin islands, zone, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
NOAA Point Shapefile - 100m2 Fish Density of Grand Northeast Ecological Corridor, Puerto Rico, Project NF-12-01-PR, 2012, WGS84

This data contains densities of fishes detected using mobile fisheries sonar on board the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster.  The data were acquired in concert with a multibeam bathymetry survey of Grand Northeast Ecological Corridor.  Fish densities are presented by size classes, corresponding to individual lengths inferred from the intensity of acoustic target return, in units of fish per 100 square meters.

Tags: 2012_pr_survey, 38khz, acoustic attenuation/transmission, aquatic habitat, bioacoustics, biology, biosphere, ceiba (18n065w0003), coral, country/territory, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, earth science, es60, fajardo (18n065w0004), fish, fish census, fish survey, fisheries acoustics, fishes, geographic information, grand northeast ecological corridor, hydrographic acoustics, marine biology, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, numeric data sets, ocean acoustics, oceans, puerto rico, puerto rico (18n066w0000), reef, simard, splitbeam sonar, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, visual images, water column habitat
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Grand Composite Raster Images for Sea Surface Temperature in the Gulf of Maine for Stellwagen Bank NMS

This personal geodatabase contains raster images of sea surface temperature (SST) in the Gulf of Maine.  These raster images are a composite of several years (1997-2005) binned by season or by month, and were calculated as means or as medians. For those images binned by month, all of the months for the time series were averaged together to make one mean image. For example, Jan '98, Jan '99, Jan 00, Jan 01, Jan 02, Jan 03, Jan 04 = Grand Monthly Mean for January. For those images binned by season, the seasons were defined as the following: 1) Fall= September, October, November; 2) Winter= December, January, February; 3) Spring= March, April, May; 4) Summer= June, July, August. All chlorophyll geotifs binned by year and season were then averaged again to create a grand mean for each season. For example, spring '98, spring '99, spring 00, spring 01, spring 02, spring 03, spring 04 = Grand Seasonal Mean for Spring.These images were also reprocessed to remove land and no data values (value = 252 and value = 0 respectively), as well as to calculate the real world values for sea surface temperature in degrees Celsius (C).

Tags: 1997-2005, doc/noaa/nos/nccos, environmental monitoring, gulf of maine, monthly averages, national centers for coastal ocean science, national ocean service, noaa, ocean color, sbnms_assess_remote_sensing, sea surface temperature, seasonal averages, seawifs, sst, stellwagen bank, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce