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Southeastern Caribbean Geomorphic Map
This map represents geomorphic marine habitats of countries in the Southeastern Caribbean. It was created by the Allen Coral Atlas, a global-scale coral reef habitat mapping project that is using Planet Dove 3.7m resolution daily satellite imagery (in combination with wave models and ecological data) to create consistent global coral reef habitat maps with the purpose of supporting science and conservation. The Allen Coral Atlas used a classifciation system of twelve Global Geomorphic Zones that are known to be fairly consistent across different biogeographic regions, and often associated with regionally distinct ecological assemblages of benthic animals and plants. Moreover, geomorphic classes like these have been shown to be reliable predictors of biological habitat richness and diversity.
Simple
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CS004002
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-12-13
- Citation identifier
- e9f851db-0298-4e44-99c1-23aa2d52e67e
- Credit
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Allen Coral Atlas (2020). Imagery, maps and monitoring of the world's tropical coral reefs. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3833242
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Allen Coral Atlas (ACA)
Owner
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
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Data is available under CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Data is copyright 2020 Allen Coral Atlas Partnership and Vulcan, Inc. Available from: www.allencoralatlas.org.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 12000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
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- Begin date
- 2018-08-01
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3857
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
1
GML
3.2.1
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view_maplibrary/wms cs004002
OGC:WFS
https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open_maplibrary/wfs cs004002
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/EMODnetSBHsurvey_CS004002.zip EMODnet Seabed Habitats Static Download
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- Yes
- Statement
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This map was developed by the Allen Coral Atlas using Planet Dove 3.7m resolution daily satellite imagery (in combination with wave models and ecological data). A total of 12 classes were used, as listed: Reef Slope - a submerged, sloping area extending seaward from the Reef Crest (or Flat) towards the shelf break, windward facing, or any direction if no dominant prevailing wind or current exists. Sheltered Reef Slope - any submerged, sloping area extending into Deep Water but protected from strong directional prevailing wind or current, either by land or by opposing reef structures. Reef Crest - a zone marking the boundary between the Reef Flat and the Reef Slope, generally shallow and characterised by highest wave energy absorbance. Outer Reef Flat - adjacent to the seaward edge of the reef,a levelled (near horizontal) broad and shallow carbonate platform, displaying distinct wave-driven zonation. Inner Reef Flat - a low energy, sediment-dominated, horizontal to gently sloping platform behind the Outer Reef Flat. Terrestrial Reef Flat - a broad, flat, shallow to semi-exposed area fringing reef flat
found directly attached to land at one side. It is subject to freshwater run-off, nutrients and sedimentation. Back Reef Slope - a complex, interior - often gently sloping - reef zone occurring
behind the Reef Flat. Of variable depth (but deeper than Reef Flat and more sloped), it is sheltered, sediment-dominated and often punctuated by coral outcrops. Deep Lagoon - any sheltered broad body of water, fully to semi-enclosed by reef, with a variable depth (but deeper than 5 m approx. and shallower than surrounding ocean) and a soft bottom dominated by reef-derived sediment. Shallow Lagoon - any fully to semi-enclosed, sheltered, flat-bottomed sediment dominated lagoon area, shallower than 5 m approx. Plateau - any deeper submerged (> 5 m approx), hard-bottomed, horizontal to gently sloping (angle shallower than 10 degrees approx), seaward facing reef platform. Patch Reef - any small, detached to semi-detached lagoonal coral outcrop arising from a sheltered, sandy-bottomed area. Small Reef - any detached (stand-alone) reef, surrounded by Deep Water and too small (generally less than approx. 1 sq km) to show a central depression and/or clear geomorphic zonation (e.g. crest, flat, backreef) besides a Reef Slope. Unknown - any location where a Global Geomorphic Class cannot be defined due to some factor that made classification difficult or impossible (e.g., depth too shallow, depth too deep, cloud interference, turbid water).
For detailed explanation of how these classes were created, the Allen Coral Atlas suggests looking to:
Kennedy, E.; Roelfsema, C.; Lyons, M.; Kovacs, E.; Borrego-Acevedo, R.; Roe, M.; Phinn, S.; Larsen, K.; Murray, N.; Yuwono, D., et
al. (2020) Reef Cover: a coral reef classification to guide global habitat mapping from remote sensing. bioRxiv 2020,
doi:10.1101/2020.09.10.29224
For publication to EMODnet, SAERI cleaned the maps in mapshaper.org using the -clean function and edited the data to fit with the Data Exchange Format. All work was completed in QGIS v3.28.4.
Metadata
- File identifier
- e9f851db-0298-4e44-99c1-23aa2d52e67e XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-10-30T14:46:09.661Z
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role South Atlantic Environmental and Research Institue (SAERI)
Point of contact
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