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OAS accession Detail for 0286825
accessions_id: |
0286825 | archive
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Title: |
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Orthorectified mosaic images of a coral reef near Salt River in St. Croix USVI collected on 2022-09-06 to 2022-09-07 (NCEI Accession 0286825) |
Abstract: |
This data set contains landscape mosaic images, created as a product for the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program’s (CRCP) National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). Orthorectified mosaic images of six reef plots were captured of a coral reef near Salt River in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. Each reef plot is made up of a 10m x 10m transect area (100 m2). Landscape mosaics are a composite of many underwater images stitched together. These mosaics have the clarity and pixel size of the individual pictures but collectively produce a “landscape view” of the coral reef community within each transect. A scuba diver holds the mosaic rig, containing two separate cameras, above the transect while swimming in a lawnmower pattern creating a crosshatching design. The diver takes these underwater images about one to two meters above the seabed at a rate of one image per second per camera. This swimming technique allows the mosaic rig to gather 1500-3000 images which are then merged into a single “landscape mosaic image” file via Agisoft Photoscan® software. A total of six TIFF (.tif) files are included in this dataset, one TIFF file corresponds to one reef transect plot area. |
Date received: |
20231220 |
Start date: |
20220906 |
End date: |
20220907 |
Seanames: |
Caribbean Sea |
West boundary: |
-64.75953 |
East boundary: |
-64.75953 |
North boundary: |
17.78532 |
South boundary: |
17.78532 |
Observation types: |
benthic, biological, imagery, in situ, survey - biological, survey - coral reef
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Instrument types: |
camera |
Datatypes: |
images |
Submitter: |
Besemer, Nicole |
Submitting institution: |
US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
Collecting institutions: |
US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
Contributing projects: |
CORAL REEF STUDIES, CRCP, NCRMP
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Platforms: |
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Number of observations: |
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Supplementary information: |
Submission Package ID: HJMY6R |
Availability date: |
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Metadata version: |
5 |
Keydate: |
2024-01-04 20:04:01+00 |
Editdate: |
2024-01-05 17:35:28+00 |