National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Orthorectified mosaic images of a coral reef in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary collected on 2022-10-04 to 2022-10-05 (NCEI Accession 0287051)
This dataset contains landscape mosaic images, created as a product for the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program’s (CRCP) National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). Orthorectified mosaic images of six reef plots were captured of a coral reef in East Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Each reef plot is made up of a 10m x 10m transect area (100 m2). Landscape mosaics are a composite of many underwater images stitched together. These mosaics have the clarity and pixel size of the individual pictures but collectively produce a “landscape view” of the coral reef community within each transect. A scuba diver holds the mosaic rig, containing two separate cameras, above the transect while swimming in a lawnmower pattern creating a crosshatching design. The diver takes these underwater images about one to two meters above the seabed at a rate of one image per second per camera. This swimming technique allows the mosaic rig to gather 1500-3000 images which are then merged into a single “landscape mosaic image” file via Agisoft Photoscan® software. A total of six TIFF (.tif) files are included in this dataset, one TIFF file corresponds to one reef transect plot area.
Complete Metadata
| describedByType | application/octet-steam |
|---|---|
| identifier | gov.noaa.nodc:0287051 |
| issued | 2024-01-10T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| landingPage | https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact |
| language | [] |
| rights | otherRestrictions |
| spatial | -93.59907043,27.90716006,-93.59934396,27.90759503 |
| temporal | 2022-10-04T00:00:00+00:00/2022-10-05T00:00:00+00:00 |
