The Nature Conservancy Caribbean Benthic Habitat Maps 2021: U.S. Virgin Islands

This map shows benthic habitats surrounding the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is produced and owned by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and derived from PlanetScope Dove Classic imagery. This map is part of the The Nature Conservancy Caribbean Benthic Habitat dataset.

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Alternate title

VI004005
Date (Creation)
2021-10-21
Citation identifier
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Credit

Schill, S.R.; McNulty, V.P.; Pollock, F.J.; Luthje, F.; Li, J.; Knapp, D.E.; Kington, J.D.; McDonald, T.; Raber, G.T.; Escovar-Fadul, X.; et al. Regional High-Resolution Benthic Habitat Data from Planet Dove Imagery for Conservation Decision-Making and Marine Planning. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 4215. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214215.

Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

caribgis@tnc.org

Owner
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
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Data licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).

Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
13000
Language
English
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans
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Begin date
2017-10-01
End date
2019-09-15
Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3857
Distribution format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

1

GML

3.2.1
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WMS

 		https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view_maplibrary/wms

vi004005

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Dataset

Conformance result

Title
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Pass
Yes
Statement

The Nature Conservancy created this map using PlanetScope (PS) Dove Classic SmallSat constellation, which delivers high-resolution imagery (4 m) and near-daily global coverage that facilitates the compilation of a cloud-free and optimal water column image composite of the Caribbean's nearshore environment. These data were used to develop a first-of-its-kind regional thirteen-class benthic habitat map to 30 m water depth using an object-based image analysis (OBIA) approach; maps were sectioned by Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). SAERI converted the TNC raster files to polygons, translated raster values into assigned habitat, cleaned the maps in mapshaper.org using the -clean function, and edited the data to fit with the Data Exchange Format.

Visit CaribbeanMarineMaps.tnc.org for more information and data acess or contact caribgis@tnc.org.

Metadata

File identifier
1f82d8e3-b8bd-43fa-9c8e-d8064bcda02c XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-09-11T09:28:42.37Z
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

South Atlantic Environmental and Research Institue (SAERI)

info@saeri.ac.fk

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Habitats and biotopes Oceanographic geographical features


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