T. A. Battista M. S. Coyne M. S. Kendall M. E. Monaco J. Waddell NOAA National Ocean Service, Biogeography Team M. Anderson Analytical Laboratories of Hawaii W. Smith P. Jokiel University of Hawaii at Manoa Unpublished material database (1) NOAA National Ocean Service, Biogeography Team; N/SCI 1, SSMC4; 1305 East West Highway; Silver Spring, MD 20910 (2) Analytical Laboratories of Hawaii 1320 Aalapapa Dr. Lanikai, Oahu, Hawaii 96734 (3) University of Hawaii at Manoa Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology P.O. Box 1346; Kaneohe, HI 96744 http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/1329 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Ocean Service (NOS) initiated a coral reef research program in 1999 to map, assess, inventory, and monitor U.S. coral reef ecosystems. These activities were implemented in response to requirements outlined in the Mapping Implementation Plan developed by the Mapping and Information Synthesis Working Group (MISWG) of the Coral Reef Task Force (CRTF). As part of the MISWG of the CRTF, NOS's Biogeography Team has been charged with the development and implementation of a plan to produce comprehensive digital coral-reef ecosystem maps for all U.S. States, Territories, and Commonwealths within five to seven years. Joint activities between Federal agencies are particularly important to map, research, monitor, manage, and restore coral reef ecosystems. In response to the Executive Order 13089, NOS is conducting research to digitally map biotic resources and coordinate a long-term monitoring program that can detect and predict change in U.S. coral reefs, and their associated habitats and biological communities. Most U.S. coral reef resources have not been digitally mapped at a scale or resolution sufficient for assessment, monitoring, and/or research to support resource management. Thus, a large portion of NOS' coral reef research activities have focused on mapping of U.S. coral reef ecosystems. The map products will provide the fundamental spatial organizing framework to implement and integrate research programs and provide the capability to effectively communicate information and results to coral reef ecosystem managers. Although the NOS coral program is relatively young, it has had tremendous success in advancing towards the goal to protect, conserve, and enhance the health of U.S. coral reef ecosystems. One objective of the program was to create benthic habitat maps to support coral reef research to enable development of products that support management needs and questions. Therefore this product was developed in collaboration with many Hawaiian partners, including Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources, a leading coral reef management agency. An initial step in producing benthic habitat maps is the development of a habitat classification scheme. This dataset focuses on the in situ data used to ground truth the mapping efforts on the main Hawaiian Islands: Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Oahu, Kauai, and Niihau. These data provide ground truth to remote sensing (color aerial photography and hyperspectral and IKONOS satellite imagery) used for the development of benthic habitat maps of the main Hawaiian Islands. NOAASupplemental: :Entry_ID: Unknown: Sensor_Name: SCUBA, visual census; Sensor_Name: GPS; Project_Campaign: Hawaiian Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping; Originating_Center: NOAA/NOS Storage_Medium: shapefiles Online_size: 33097 Kbytes Resource Description: NODC Accession Number 0001329 20010101 20021231 ground condition Complete None Planned -160.25 -154.8166 22.2233 18.9166 None benthic type (coral, algae, sand, rock) habitat percent coverage for benthic types CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Numeric Data Sets > Habitats CoRIS Theme Thesaurus EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral Reef Ecology > Coral Cover EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral Reef Ecology > Benthic biology EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Mapping > Habitat Mapping EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral Reef Ecology > Habitats EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Reef Habitat EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Algae > Algal Cover ISO 19115 Topic Category biota 002 oceans 014 CoRIS Place Thesaurus OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Hawaii Island > Hawaii Island (19N155W0003) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Hawaii > Hawaii Island (19N155W0003) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Maui Island > Maui Island (20N156W0004) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Maui > Maui Island (20N156W0004) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Molokai Island > Molokai Island (21N157W0001) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Hawaii > Molokai Island (21N157W0001) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Lanai Island > Lanai Island (20N156W0002) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Maui > Lanai Island (20N156W0002) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Maui > Club Lanai (20N156W0008) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Lanai Island > Club Lanai (20N156W0008) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Oahu Island > Oahu (21N157W0003) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Oahu (21N157W0003) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Kauai Island > Kauai Island (22N159W0001) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Hawaii > Kauai Island (22N159W0001) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Niihau Island > Niihau Island (21N160W0001) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Kauai > Niihau Island (21N160W0001) CoRIS Region MHI None North Pacific, Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Oahu, Kauai, Niihau None benthic None NOAA and NODC would appreciate recognition as the resource from which these data were obtained in any publications and/or other representations of these data. Tim Battista NOAA National Ocean Service Researcher mailing and physical

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Silver Spring MD 20910 USA (301) 713-3028 x171 (301) 713-4388 Tim.Battista@noaa.gov (1) NOAA National Ocean Service, Biogeography Team; N/SCI 1, SSMC4; 1305 East West Highway; Silver Spring, MD 20910 (2) Analytical Laboratories of Hawaii 1320 Aalapapa Dr. Lanikai, Oahu, Hawaii 96734 (3) University of Hawaii at Manoa Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology P.O. Box 1346; Kaneohe, HI 96744 GIS shapefilesdatabase IV filesASCII text files see Lineage - Process Step none M. S. Coyne T. A. Battista M. Anderson J. Waddell W. Smith P. Jokiel M. S. Kendall M. E. Monaco 2003 document NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS CCMA 152 Silver Spring, MD National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Also available from U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Biogeography Program. 2003. (CD-ROM). Benthic Habitats of the Main Hawaiian Islands. http://biogeo.nos.noaa.gov/projects/mapping/pacific/ paper 2003 publication date Coyne and others, 2003 benthic habitat studies Random points are generated within major habitat polygons of coral reef habitat maps prepared to NOAA standards as described in the Classification Scheme for Benthic Habitats for the Main Eight Hawaiian Islands. A set of random points are generated within these polygons using a random point generator. Each point is navigated to in the field and habitat data acquired. Coyne and others, 2003 Unknown Dr. Miles Anderson Analytical Laboratories of Hawaii, LLC Researcher mailing and physical

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