WFSPacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) WFSData from the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii. PacIOOS is one of eleven regional observing programs in the U.S. supporting the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). The PacIOOS region includes the U.S. Pacific Region (Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands), the Pacific nations in Free Association with the U.S. (Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau), and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (Howland, Baker, Johnston, Jarvis, Kingman, Palmyra, Midway, Wake). These data are served using GeoServer in a variety of interoperable data services and output formats: http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/. See http://geoserver.org for further documentation; and GeoServer's WFS documentation at: http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/wfs/. Lastly, GeoExplorer can be used to view these layers online at http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoexplorer/.WFS, PacIOOS, IOOS, ocean observing, Pacific, US Affiliated Territories, GeoServerhttp://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/PACIOOS/mp_noaa_agr_benthic_habitats/wfsNONENONEPACIOOS:mp_noaa_agr_benthic_habitatsNOAA Shallow-Water Benthic Habitats: CNMI: AgrihanBenthic habitat maps for the nearshore, shallow (< 30 m) coastal waters of the island of Agrihan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) produced these data to support coral reef research and management. Habitat regions were digitally identified using visual interpretation of orthorectified satellite imagery with a minimum mapping unit (MMU) of approximately 1 acre. Includes biological cover types, geomorphological structure types, and geographic zones.
Eighteen distinct and non-overlapping biological cover types were identified. Habitats or features that cover areas smaller than the minimal mapping unit of 1 acre were not considered. For example, uncolonized sand halos surrounding coral patch reefs are too small to be mapped independently. Cover type refers only to the predominant biological component colonizing the surface of the feature and does not address location (e.g., on the shelf or in the lagoon). The cover types are defined in a collapsible hierarchy ranging from eight major classes (live coral, seagrass, macroalgae, encrusting/coralline algae, turf algae, emergent vegetation, uncolonized, and unknown), combined with a density modifier representing the percentage of the predominant cover type (10%-<50% sparse, 50%-<90% patchy, 90%-100% continuous).
Similarly, 14 distinct and non-overlapping geomorphological structure types were identified. The structure types are defined in a collapsible hierarchy ranging from four major classes (coral reef and hardbottom, unconsolidated sediment, other delineations, and unknown), to thirteen detailed classes: sand, mud, spur and groove, individual and aggregated patch reef, aggregate reef, scattered coral/rock in unconsolidated sediment, pavement, rock/boulder (volcanic and carbonate), reef rubble, pavement with sand channels, artificial, and unknown.
Lastly, 13 mutually exclusive geographic zones were identified from land to open water corresponding to typical insular shelf and coral reef geomorphology. These zones include: shoreline intertidal, vertical wall (none identified), lagoon, back reef, reef flat, reef crest, fore reef, bank/shelf, bank/shelf escarpment, channel, dredged (since this condition eliminates natural geomorphology), unknown, and land. Zone refers only to each benthic community's location and does not address substrate or cover types within. For example, the lagoon zone may include patch reefs, sand, and seagrass beds; however, these are considered structural elements that may or may not occur within the lagoon zone and therefore, are not used to define it.Earth Science > Biological Classification > Plants > Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) > Monocots > Seagrass, Earth Science > Biosphere > Aquatic Ecosystems > Benthic Habitat, Earth Science > Biosphere > Vegetation, Earth Science > Land Surface > Geomorphology > Coastal Landforms/Processes, Earth Science > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs, Earth Science > Solid Earth > Geomorphic Landforms/Processes > Coastal Landforms > Coral Reefs, Earth Science > Solid Earth > Geomorphic Landforms/Processes > Coastal Landforms > Coral Reefs > Patch Reef, oceans, biota, Ocean > Pacific Ocean > Western Pacific Ocean > Micronesia > Northern Mariana Islands > Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Ocean > Pacific Ocean > Western Pacific Ocean > Micronesia > Northern Mariana Islands > AgrihanEPSG:4326absabs_2abs_3abs_4acosAddCoveragesAggregateAreaarea2AreaGridasinatanatan2BarnesSurfacebetweenboundaryboundaryDimensionBoundsbufferBufferFeatureCollectionbufferWithSegmentsCategorizeceilcentroidclassifyClipCollectGeometriesCollection_AverageCollection_BoundsCollection_CountCollection_MaxCollection_MedianCollection_MinCollection_SumCollection_UniqueConcatenatecontainsContourconvertconvexHullcosCountCropCoveragecrossesdateFormatdateParsedensifydifferencedimensiondisjointdisjoint3Ddistancedistance3Ddouble2boolendAngleendPointenvenvelopeEqualIntervalequalsExactequalsExactToleranceequalToexpexteriorRingFeaturefloorgeometryTypegeomFromWKTgeomLengthGeorectifyCoverageGetFullCoveragegetGeometryNgetXgetYgetzgreaterEqualThangreaterThanGridHeatmapidIEEEremainderif_then_elseImportin10in2in3in4in5in6in7in8in9InclusionFeatureCollectionint2bboolint2ddoubleinteriorPointinteriorRingNInterpolateintersectionIntersectionFeatureCollectionintersectsintersects3DisClosedisCoverageisEmptyisLikeisNullisometricisRingisSimpleisValidisWithinDistanceisWithinDistance3DJenkslengthlessEqualThanlessThanlistlogLRSGeocodeLRSMeasureLRSSegmentmaxmax_2max_3max_4minmin_2min_3min_4mincircleminimumdiameterminrectanglemoduloMultiplyCoveragesNearestnotnotEqualTonumberFormatnumberFormat2numGeometriesnumInteriorRingnumPointsoctagonalenvelopeoffsetoverlapsPagedUniqueparameterparseBooleanparseDoubleparseIntparseLongpiPointBufferspointNPointStackerPolygonExtractionpolygonizepowpropertyPropertyExistsQuantileQueryrandomRangeLookupRasterAsPointCollectionRasterZonalStatisticsRecodeRectangularCliprelaterelatePatternreprojectReprojectGeometryrintroundround_2roundDoubleScaleCoveragesetCRSsimplifysinSnapsplitPolygonsqrtStandardDeviationstartAnglestartPointStoreCoveragestrCapitalizestrConcatstrEndsWithstrEqualsIgnoreCasestrIndexOfstrLastIndexOfstrLengthstrMatchesstrPositionstrReplacestrStartsWithstrSubstringstrSubstringStartstrToLowerCasestrToUpperCasestrTrimstrTrim2StyleCoveragesymDifferencetantoDegreestoRadianstouchestoWKTTransformunionUnionFeatureCollectionUniqueUniqueIntervalVectorToRasterVectorZonalStatisticsverticeswithin