The Nature Conservancy Caribbean Benthic Habitat Maps 2021: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

This map shows benthic habitats surrounding Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is produced and owned by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and derived from PlanetScope Dove Classic imagery. This map is part of the The Nature Conservancy Caribbean Benthic Habitat dataset.

Alternate title: VC004001

Date (Creation): 2021-10-21

Citation identifier: aa1f5def-81ee-47f1-b9e8-40e640598ac6

Credit: Schill, S.R.; McNulty, V.P.; Pollock, F.J.; Luthje, F.; Li, J.; Knapp, D.E.; Kington, J.D.; McDonald, T.; Raber, G.T.; Escovar-Fadul, X.; et al. Regional High-Resolution Benthic Habitat Data from Planet Dove Imagery for Conservation Decision-Making and Marine Planning. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 4215. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214215. Visit CaribbeanMarineMaps.tnc.org for more information and data access or contact caribgis@tnc.org. caribgis@tnc.org Visit CaribbeanMarineMaps.tnc.org for more information and data access or contact caribgis@tnc.org.

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)		caribgis@tnc.org	Owner

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3

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Other constraints: Data licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/)

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 13000

Language: English

Topic category

Biota
Oceans

Begin date: 2017-10-01

Reference system identifier: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3857

Distribution format

Name	Version
ESRI Shapefile	1
GML	3.2.1

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view_maplibrary/wms	vc004001

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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass: Yes

Statement: The Nature Conservancy created this map using PlanetScope (PS) Dove Classic SmallSat constellation, which delivers high-resolution imagery (4 m) and near-daily global coverage that facilitates the compilation of a cloud-free and optimal water column image composite of the Caribbean's nearshore environment. These data were used to develop a first-of-its-kind regional thirteen-class benthic habitat map to 30 m water depth using an object-based image analysis (OBIA) approach; maps were sectioned by Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). SAERI converted the TNC raster files to polygons, translated raster values into assigned habitat, cleaned the maps in mapshaper.com using the -clean function, edited the data to fit with the Data Exchange Format, and removed any holes with an area less than 25m^2.

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File identifier: aa1f5def-81ee-47f1-b9e8-40e640598ac6 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2023-10-30T14:22:47.492Z

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
South Atlantic Environmental and Research Institue (SAERI)		info@saeri.ac info@saeri.ac.fk	Point of contact

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