Citation:

PANGAEA.946748

Name: Benthic and substrate cover data derived from field photo-transect surveys for the Townsville to Whitsunday management region of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), May/June 2019
Published: 2022-08-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Published: 2022-08-01 • DOI registered: 2023-02-08

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Abstract:

A subset of photoquadrats were uploaded to the CoralNet machine learning interface (https://coralnet.ucsd.edu/) and manually labelled for coral, algae or substrate type using 50 points per quadrat. Follow training of the machine, this training set enabled automatic annotation of all unclassified field images: the remaining field photos were uploaded to the database and 50 annotation points were overlaid on each of the images. Every point was assigned a benthic cover category from a label list automatically by the program. The resulting benthic cover data of each photo was linked to GPS coordinates, saved as an ArcMap point shapefile, and projected to Universal Transverse Mercator WGS-84.

Project(s):

GBR habitat mapping (GBR_MAP)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: -19.400248 * Median Longitude: 148.834201 * South-bound Latitude: -20.099090 * West-bound Longitude: 147.404217 * North-bound Latitude: -18.570836 * East-bound Longitude: 149.847903

Date/Time Start: 2019-05-29T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2019-06-05T00:00:00

Event(s):

Townsville-Whitsunday * Latitude: -19.400000 * Longitude: 148.834000 * Location: Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Comment
1	Identification	ID		Kovacs, Eva M
2	LATITUDE	Latitude		Kovacs, Eva M	Geocode
3	LONGITUDE	Longitude		Kovacs, Eva M	Geocode
4	DATE/TIME	Date/Time		Kovacs, Eva M	Geocode
5	Image number/name	Image no/name		Kovacs, Eva M
6	Acropora formosa, cover	A. formosa cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	ACR_BRA: Acropora formosa, branching Montipera
7	Acropora formosa, cover	A. formosa cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	ACR_BRA_B_: Acropora formosa, branching Montipera - Bleached
8	Acroporidae, cover	Acroporidae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	ACR_HIP: Acroporidae Hispidoes; thick branches, predominantly hispidose
9	Acroporidae, cover	Acroporidae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	ACR_HIP_B_: Acroporidae Hispidoes; thick branches, predominantly hispidose - Bleached
10	Acroporidae, cover	Acroporidae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	ACR_OTH: Acroporids with indeterminate shape, predominantly cuneiform
11	Acroporidae, cover	Acroporidae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	ACR_OTH_B_: Acroporids with indeterminate shape, predominantly cuneiform - Bleached
12	Montipora, cover	Montipora cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	ACR_PE: Encrusting Monipora
13	Montipora, cover	Montipora cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	ACR_PE_B_: Encrusting Monipora - Bleached
14	Acropora, cover	Acropora cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	BRA_TAB_Ac: Acropora tabular/coryrombose/plate
15	Acropora, cover	Acropora cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	BRA_TAB_B_: Acropora tabular/coryrombose/plate - Bleached
16	Acropora, cover	Acropora cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	BRA_DIG_Ac: Acropora digitate, branches resembling fingers
17	Acropora, cover	Acropora cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	BRA_DIG_B_: Acropora digitate, branches resembling fingers - Bleached
18	Favia, cover	Favia cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	FAV_MUS: Favia, Favites, Platygyra, Goniastrea, Diploasrea, Lobophyllia
19	Favia, cover	Favia cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	FAV_MUS_B_: Favia, Favites, Platygyra, Goniastrea, Diploasrea, Lobophyllia - Bleached
20	Corals indeterminata, cover	Coral indet cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	MASE_OTH: Massive, submassive, encrusting colonies of undetermined taxonomic group
21	Corals indeterminata, cover	Coral indet cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	MASEoth_B_: Massive, submassive, encrusting colonies of undetermined taxonomic group - Bleached
22	Corals indeterminata, cover	Coral indet cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	TFP_RDG_Al: Thin, foliose or plating colonies with visible relief structures on the plates
23	Corals indeterminata, cover	Coral indet cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	TFP_RDG_B_: Thin, foliose or plating colonies with visible relief structures on the plates -Bleached
24	Corals indeterminata, cover	Coral indet cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	TFP_RND_Al: Thin, foliose or plating colonies with visible rounded corallits on the plates
25	Corals indeterminata, cover	Coral indet cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	TFP_RND_B_: Thin, foliose or plating colonies with visible rounded corallits on the plates - Bleached
26	Coral cover, branching corals	Cover branch cor	%	Kovacs, Eva M	BRA_OTH: Branching other
27	Coral cover, branching corals	Cover branch cor	%	Kovacs, Eva M	BRA_OTH_B_: Branching other - Bleached
28	Corals indeterminata, cover	Coral indet cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	OTH_HC: Other HC not assinged to any other category
29	Corals indeterminata, cover	Coral indet cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	OTH_HC_B_: Other HC not assinged to any other category - Bleached
30	Pocilloporidae, cover	Pocilloporidae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	POCI: Pocilloporidae sp. (includes Seriatopora and Stylophora)
31	Pocilloporidae, cover	Pocilloporidae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	POCI_B_: Pocilloporidae sp. (includes Seriatopora and Stylophora) - Bleached
32	Porites cylindrica, cover	P. cylindrica cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	POR_BRA: Porites cylindrica, Goniopora (Poritidae branching)
33	Porites cylindrica, cover	P. cylindrica cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	POR_BRA_B_: Porites cylindrica, Goniopora (Poritidae branching) - Bleached
34	Porites lichen, cover	P. lichen cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	POR_ENC: Porites lichen (Poritidae encrusting)
35	Porites lichen, cover	P. lichen cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	POR_ENC_B_: Porites lichen (Poritidae encrusting) - Bleached
36	Porites lobata, cover	P. lobata cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	POR_MASS: Porites lobata, P. lutea (Poritide massive)
37	Porites lobata, cover	P. lobata cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	POR_MASS_B_: Porites lobata, P. lutea (Poritide massive) - Bleached
38	Gorgonia, cover	Gorgonia cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	GORG: Sea Fans/Plumes; Gorgonia, Pseudopterogorgia
39	Gorgonia, cover	Gorgonia cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	GORG_B_: Sea Fans/Plumes; Gorgonia, Pseudopterogorgia - Bleached
40	Alcyoniidae, cover	Alcyoniidae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	ALC_SF: Common large fleshy Alcyoniidae rpresentatives
41	Alcyoniidae, cover	Alcyoniidae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	ALC_SF_B_: Common large fleshy Alcyoniidae rpresentatives - Bleached
42	Soft corals, other, cover	Soft corals oth cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	OTH_SF: Other soft coral (not sea fans)
43	Soft corals, other, cover	Soft corals oth cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	OTH_SF_B_: Other soft coral (not sea fans) - Bleached
44	Other, cover	Other cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Other: All other
45	Acanthaster planci, cover	A. planci cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	MINV_COTS: Crown of thorns sea star, Acanthaster planci
46	Invertebrata, cover	Invert cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	MOB_INV: Mobile invertebrates 1 (sea cucumber, cots, urchin)
47	Invertebrata, cover	Invert cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	OTH_SINV: Other sessile invertebrates (zoanthids, anemones, corallimorphs, sponges, clams, etc )
48	Lobophora, cover	Lobophora cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Lobph: Lobophora; fleshy algae
49	Turbinaria sp., cover	Turbinaria sp. cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Turbin: Turbinaria sp.
50	Sargassum sp., cover	Sargassum sp. cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	MAECBS: Erect Course Branching Brown: Sargassum sp.
51	Padina sp., cover	Padina sp. cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Pad: Padina sp. (pencil shavings)
52	Dictyota sp., cover	Dictyota sp. cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Dicsp: Dictyota sp.
53	Chlorodesmis sp., cover	Chlorodesmis sp. cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Chlor: Chlorodesmis sp (turtle weed); green filamentous
54	Halimeda sp., cover	Halimeda sp. cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	MACR_Cal_H: Calicifying algae: Halimeda
55	Caulerpa sp., cover	Caulerpa sp. cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Caul: Caulerpa sp., green algae
56	Cyanobacteria, cover	Cyanobact cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Cya_spe: Cyanobacterium sp.
57	Algae, cover	Algae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	ALG_OTH: Other algae
58	Coralline algae, cover	Corall algae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	CAL_CCA_DC: CCA on dead coral
59	Coralline algae, cover	Corall algae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	CAL_CCA_RB: CCA on rubble
60	Epithelial algal matrix, cover	Epith algal matrix cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	EAM_DHC: Epithelial algal matirx smothering dead hard coral (Turf on Rock)
61	Epithelial algal matrix, cover	Epith algal matrix cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	EAM_RB: Epithelial algal matirx smothering rubble (Turf on Rubble)
62	Sand, cover	Sand cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Sand: Sand
63	Benthic microalgae, cover	Benth microalgae cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	BMA_sand: BMA on sand
64	Seagrass, cover	Seagr cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Seagrass: Seagrass, any type
65	Other, cover	Other cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	TAPE: Line or hardware
66	Other, cover	Other cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Unk: Unknown, but represents something (annotator doesn't know what it is)
67	Other, cover	Other cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	Unc: Unclear; point falls in a shadowy, blurry, dark area
68	Background, cover	Background cov	%	Kovacs, Eva M	WATE: Blue background
69	Image	IMAGE		Kovacs, Eva M

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

1318604 data points

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