Florida Keys Coral Sampling Locations

Citation:

Citation Information:

Originator: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI)
Publication Date: 1996
Title: camra_mrgis_coral_sites_keys_1996
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
Series Information:

Publication Information:

Publication Place: St. Petersburg, FL
Publisher: FMRI

Description:

Abstract:
This GIS data set represents sampling sites of the Coral Reef Monitoring Program. The Coral Reef Monitoring Project is a multi-agency collaborative effort between three institutions: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Florida Marine Research Institute (FWC-FMRI), University of Georgia Institute of Ecology (UGA), and University of Charleston, South Carolina Department of Biology (UCSC). Data describes stony coral composition and percent cover values for stony corals, octocorals, sponges, zooanthids, macroalgae, seagrass, and substrate. Four different habitat types are sampled annually from 40 different sites beginning in 1996. Data is collected at each site through video data analysis using twelve 22m permanent video transects 40 cm off the benthos. Raw video is digitized by framegrabbing and post-processing. Digital images are analyzed using "Point Count for Coral Reefs" software which randomly places ten points on each image for categorization of benthos. ASCII files are generated for each station ranging from 1500-1800 analyzed records.
Purpose:
This data set represents coral sampling sites in the Florida Keys.
Supplemental Information: Part of the FKNMS Water Quality data set
Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency: None planned

Spatial Domain:

Description of Geographic Extent:
Bounding Coordinates:

West Bounding Coordinate: -81.924435
East Bounding Coordinate: -80.20625
North Bounding Coordinate: 25.331825
South Bounding Coordinate: 24.415816

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme Keyword Thesaurus: FMRItheme
Theme Keyword: corals (reefs, etc.)
Theme Keyword: benthic
Theme Keyword: GIS
Theme Keyword: mapping
Theme Keyword: marine
Theme Keyword: habitat (rivers, estuaries, ecology, hard bottom)
Theme Keyword: marine vegetation (mangroves, seagrasses, seaweeds, sea oats)

Place:

Place Keyword Thesaurus: FMRIplace
Place Keyword: Florida Keys
Place Keyword: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Place Keyword: Florida
Place Keyword: south Florida

Stratum:

Temporal:

Taxonomy:

Access Constraints: Available with Caution
Use Constraints: FWC-FMRI and all originators of the data must be credited.
Point of Contact:

Contact Information:

Contact Person Primary:

Contact Person: FWC-FMRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Florida Marine Research Institute)
Contact Organization: FWC-FMRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Florida Marine Research Institute)

Contact Address:

Address Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Florida Marine Research Institute 100 8th Ave. SE
City: St. Petersburg
State or Province: FL
Postal Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: 727-896-8626
Hours of Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Data Set Credit:
Primary personnel for this study were Jennifer Wheaton, Project Manager (FWC-FMRI), and three principal investigators, Walter C. Jaap (FWC-FMRI), James W. Porter (UGA), and Phillip Dustan (UCSC).
Security Information:

Security Classification System: FMRI-DC
Security Classification: Available with caution

Native Data Set Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.1.1.649

Attribute Accuracy:

Attribute Accuracy Report:
All entities and attributes have been identified. The accuracy of the attributes has not been verified by FMRI.
Completeness Report:
QA/QC incomplete
Lineage:
Source Information:

Source Citation:

Citation Information:

Originator: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Florida Marine Research Institute (FWC-FMRI), University of Georgia Institute of Ecology (UGA), and University of Charleston, South Carolina Department of Biology (UCSC)
Publication Date: 1996
Title: Video Transects - Florida Keys
has record - parent_ID null - SRParent_ID = 99999

Source Time Period of Content:

Time Period Information:

Range of Dates/Times:

Source Currentness Reference: ground condition

Source Citation Abbreviation: FKNMS
Source Contribution: FKNMS water quality data set

Direct Spatial Reference Method: Vector
Point and Vector Object Information:

SDTS Terms Description:

SDTS Point and Vector Object Type: Entity point
Point and Vector Object Count: 160

Horizontal Coordinate System Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude Resolution: 0.0
Longitude Resolution: 0.0

Planar:

Map Projection:

Map Projection Name: Albers Conical Equal Area

Standard Parallel: 24.0
Standard Parallel: 31.5
Longitude of Central Meridian: -84.0
False Easting: 400000.0
False Northing: 0.0

Planar Coordinate Information:

Planar Coordinate Encoding Method: Coordinate Pair
Coordinate Representation:
Abscissa Resolution: 0.005724
Ordinate Resolution: 0.005724

Planar Distance Units: meters

Horizontal Datum Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis: 6378137.0
Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 298.257

Detailed Description:

Entity Type:

Entity Type Label: fmri.coral_sites_keys_1996_point
Entity Type Definition: Coral sampling in the Florida Keys, 1996 study.
Entity Type Definition Source:

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ACROPORA_C

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ACROPORA_P

Attribute:

Attribute Label: AGARICIA_A

Attribute:

Attribute Label: AGARICIA_F

Attribute:

Attribute Label: AGARICIA_L

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ANGLE

Attribute:

Attribute Label: COLPOPHYLL

Attribute:

Attribute Label: CORALCOV_96_
Attribute Definition: Internal ID used by ArcINFO

Attribute:

Attribute Label: CORALCOV_96_ID
Attribute Definition: Internal ID used by ArcINFO

Attribute:

Attribute Label: CSTAT_U_

Attribute:

Attribute Label: CSTAT_U_ID

Attribute:

Attribute Label: DATE_
Attribute Definition: Date data is collected

Attribute:

Attribute Label: DENDROGYRA

Attribute:

Attribute Label: DEPTH
Attribute Definition: Numeric values for the depth of each site

Attribute:

Attribute Label: DIADEMA_AN

Attribute:

Attribute Label: DICHOCOENI

Attribute:

Attribute Label: DIPLORIA_C

Attribute:

Attribute Label: DIPLORIA_L

Attribute:

Attribute Label: DIPLORIA_S

Attribute:

Attribute Label: EUSMILIA_F

Attribute:

Attribute Label: FAVIA_FRAG

Attribute:

Attribute Label: fmri.coralcov_96_point.AREA

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ISOPHYLLAS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ISOPHYLLIA

Attribute:

Attribute Label: LAT_DD_
Attribute Definition: Latitude of site in decimal degrees

Attribute:

Attribute Label: LAT_DDMM
Attribute Definition: Latitude of site in degrees and decimal minutes

Attribute:

Attribute Label: LEPTOSERIS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: LON_DD
Attribute Definition: Longitude of site in decimal degrees

Attribute:

Attribute Label: LON_DDMM
Attribute Definition: Longitude of site in degrees and decimal minutes

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MACROALGAE

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MADRACIS_D

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MADRACIS_M

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MANICINA_A

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MEANDRINA_

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MILLEPORA_

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MILLEPORA_A

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MONTASTRAE

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MONTASTRAEA

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MUSSA_ANGU

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MYCETOPHYL

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MYCETOPHYLA

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MYCETOPHYLAA

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MYCETOPHYLAAA

Attribute:

Attribute Label: OBJECTID
Attribute Definition: Internal ID used by SDE

Attribute:

Attribute Label: OCTOCORALL

Attribute:

Attribute Label: OCULINA_DI

Attribute:

Attribute Label: OTHER

Attribute:

Attribute Label: PERIMETER

Attribute:

Attribute Label: POLYGONID

Attribute:

Attribute Label: PORIFERA

Attribute:

Attribute Label: PORITES_AS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: PORITES_PO

Attribute:

Attribute Label: REF
Attribute Definition: Reference to buoy location

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SCALE

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SCLERACTIN

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SCOLYMIA_C

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SCOLYMIA_L

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SEAGRASS

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SEGMENT

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SHAPE
Attribute Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute Definition Source: ESRI
Attribute Domain Values:

Unrepresentable Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SIDERASTRE

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SIDERASTREA

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SITE_ID
Attribute Definition: ID name used for site

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SITECODE
Attribute Definition: Alphanumeric code for each site.

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SITENAME
Attribute Definition: Name used for site

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SITETYPE
Attribute Definition: Alpha code for the type of the site

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SOLENASTRE

Attribute:

Attribute Label: STATION
Attribute Definition: Number of station at the site

Attribute:

Attribute Label: STEPHANOCO

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SUBSTRATE

Attribute:

Attribute Label: TOTAL_STON

Attribute:

Attribute Label: ZOANTHIDEA

Distributor:

Contact Information:

Contact Person Primary:

Contact Person: GIS Data Librarian
Contact Organization: FWC-FMRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Florida Marine Research Institute)

Contact Position: GIS Data Librarian
Contact Address:

Address Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Florida Marine Research Institute 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
City: St. Petersburg
State or Province: Florida
Postal Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: 727-896-8626
Contact Facsimile Telephone: 727-893-1679
Contact Electronic Mail Address: gislibrarian@fwc.state.fl.us
Hours of Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Distribution Liability: This data set is in the public domain, and the recipient may not assert any proprietary rights thereto nor represent it to anyone as other than a FWC-FMRI produced data set or the appropriate originator; it is provided "as-is" without warranty of any kind, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The user assumes all responsibility for the accuracy and suitability of this data set for a specific application. In no event will the staff of the Florida Marine Research Institute be liable for any damages, including lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages arising from the use of or the inability to use this data set.

Metadata Date: 02/07/2002
Metadata Review Date: 09/30/2003
Metadata Contact:

Contact Information:

Contact Person Primary:

Contact Person: GIS Data Librarian
Contact Organization: FWC-FMRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Florida Marine Research Institute)

Contact Position: GIS Data Librarian
Contact Address:

Address Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Florida Marine Research Institute 100 Eighth Avenue Southeast
City: St. Petersburg
State or Province: Florida
Postal Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: 727-896-8626
Contact Facsimile Telephone: 727-893-1679
Contact Electronic Mail Address: gislibrarian@fwc.state.fl.us
Hours of Service: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time

Metadata Standard Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata Time Convention: local time
Metadata Access Constraints: No restrictions on metadata.
Metadata Use Constraints: Metadata must be distributed with the data set.
Metadata Security Information:

Metadata Security Classification System: FMRI-MC
Metadata Security Classification: Available
Metadata Security Handling Description: Metadata must be distributed with the data set.

Metadata Extensions:

Online Linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
Profile Name: ESRI Metadata Profile