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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
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
Platforms:
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Submission Package ID: HJMY6R
Availability date:
Metadata version: 5
Keydate: 2024-01-04 20:04:01+00
Editdate: 2024-01-05 17:35:28+00