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| Range of values | |
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| Minimum: | 0 |
| Maximum: | 3 |
| Value | Definition |
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| Hardbottom | This category commonly harbors varieties of octocorals, sponges, algae, the fleshy colonial zoanthid Palythoa caribaeorum, the fire corals Millepora alcicornis and M. complanata, other encrusting reef-associated organisms, coral skeletons, rubble and sands, and a few isolated live, stony, head-coral species. |
| Rubble | This category consisted primarily of clearly identifiable A. cervicornis sticks intermixed with carbonate fragments of other shapes and sizes of indeterminate origins. |
| Sand | This category did not differentiate between coarse- and fine-grained size fractions, although clarity of the ATRIS imagery would have allowed for such distinction. |
| Seagrass | This category included the most prevalent type of seagrass-the turtle grass Thalassia testudinum-occasionally mixed with the manatee grass Syringodium filiforme. |
| Range of values | |
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| Minimum: | 133709 |
| Maximum: | 695120 |
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Images were collected to support the Reefscape Geologic-framework task of the USGS Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies project (https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/crest/). Benthic composition, topographic relief, areal extent, and temporal stability are critical factors that contribute to the value of a given marine habitat. To provide context for the data collected in the other tasks, the focus of this task was to characterize physical aspects of the project study sites, including habitat classification, sediment distribution, and vertical temperature profiles. The images used to help create the habitat map were acquired during USGS field activity number 2014-313-FA, additional survey and data details are available at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2014-313-FA.
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| Data format: | SHP (version 1) Vector Digital Dataset (Polygon) |
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