Roelfsema, Christiaan M; Kovacs, Eva M; Ortiz, Juan Carlos; Callaghan, David P; Johansen, Kasper L; Phinn, Stuart R (2020): Geomorphic zonation and dominant benthic cover type maps for on the shallow offshore reefs of the Cairns to Cooktown Management area of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (GBRF, UQ) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.925657
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Abstract:
The aim of this study was to create detailed geomorphic zonation and dominant benthic cover type maps of the shallow offshore reefs in the Cairns to Cooktown management area of the Great Barrier Reef. Maps such as these do not exist for the Great Barrier Reef, but would provide an invaluable resource for management agencies.
The maps display the geomorphic zonation and dominant benthic cover type. Membership rules for object classification were based on OBIA rules, geomorphic zonation and expert knowledge/field data. It is important to note that the imagery used for the mapping process had a resolution of 15 m x 15 m, which would likely not capture the spatial variability of the benthic categories mapped.
This dataset consists of shapefiles and auxiliary files for each of the geomorphic zonation and dominant benthic cover types on the shallow offshore reefs of the Cairns to Cooktown Management area of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
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Roelfsema, Christiaan M; Kovacs, Eva M; Ortiz, Juan Carlos; Callaghan, David P; Hock, Karlo; Mongin, Mathieu; Johansen, Kasper L; Mumby, Peter John; Wettle, Magnus; Ronan, Mike; Lundgren, Petra; Kennedy, Emma V; Phinn, Stuart R (2020): Habitat maps to enhance monitoring and management of the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs, 39(4), 1039-1054, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01929-3
Roelfsema, Christiaan M; Kovacs, Eva M; Ortiz, Juan Carlos; Wolff, Nicholas H; Callaghan, David P; Wettle, Magnus; Ronan, Mike; Hamylton, Sarah; Mumby, Peter John; Phinn, Stuart R (2018): Coral reef habitat mapping: A combination of object-based image analysis and ecological modelling. Remote Sensing of Environment, 208, 27-41, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.005
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Kennedy, Emma V; Roelfsema, Christiaan M; Lyons, Mitchell B; Kovacs, Eva M; Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney; Roe, Meredith; Phinn, Stuart R; Murray, Nicholas James; Yuwono, Doddy; Wolff, Jeremy; Tudman, Paul (2020): Reef Cover: a coral reef classification system for global habitat mapping from biophysical remote sensing. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.10.292243
Roelfsema, Christiaan M; Kovacs, Eva M; Markey, Kathryn; Phinn, Stuart R (2018): Benthic and substrate cover data derived from field photo-transect surveys for the Cairns to Cooktown management region of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), January and April/May 2017. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.892623
Roelfsema, Christiaan M; Kovacs, Eva M; Phinn, Stuart R (2017): Georeferenced photographs of benthic photoquadrats acquired along 160 transects distributed over 23 reefs in the Cairns to Cooktown region of the Great Barrier Reef, January and April/May, 2017. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.877578
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Latitude: -23.433330 * Longitude: 151.900000
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Great_Barrier_Reef * Latitude: -23.433330 * Longitude: 151.900000 * Location: Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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