From 2001 to 2003, IKONOS satellite imagery was collected for Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. The project was a cooperative effort involving the National Ocean Service, the University of Hawaii, and Analytical Laboratories of Hawaii. The imagery includes one-meter panchromatic and four-meter multispectral data, processed to minimize atmospheric and water column effects for coral reef analysis.
Use Cases
- Mapping coral reef habitat boundaries based on high-resolution panchromatic and multispectral imagery.
- Analyzing coral reef community structure over time based on the time-series data mentioned.
- Assessing coral health using the enhanced spectral resolution of the multispectral data.
- Digitizing coastal features for GIS projects using the described Habitat Digitizer software interface.
Strengths
- Includes both one-meter panchromatic and four-meter multispectral data for each study area.
- Imagery was processed to minimize atmospheric and water column effects, which can improve feature clarity.
- Data was acquired to support specific, peer-reviewed mapping activities by the National Ocean Service.
Limitations
- Last updated 2003-01-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI
- Collection Method
- Purchased IKONOS satellite imagery, processed to minimize atmospheric and water column effects.
- Time Range
- 2001-2003
- Freshness
- 2003-01-01 00:00:00
- Geography
- Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands