Spatial data layers for Sogod Bay in Southern Leyte, Philippines include administrative boundaries and coastal habitats derived from WorldView-2 imagery. Alessia Kockel created this dataset to investigate planning options for a marine protected area network. The study region encompasses coastal waters of five municipalities.
Use Cases
- Design marine protected area networks based on spatial habitat and boundary data.
- Analyze coastal habitat distribution based on remote sensing and underwater video transects.
- Compare community-supported and systematically planned conservation sites based on MPA location data.
- Assess administrative and jurisdictional boundaries for coastal management based on barangay and municipal water layers.
Strengths
- Includes multiple spatial data layers: boundaries, habitats, and MPA locations.
- Habitats derived from high-resolution WorldView-2 satellite imagery.
- MPA sites identified through multiple methods including community input and systematic planning software.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Alessia Kockel
- Collection Method
- Remote sensing analysis and spatial prioritization software.
- Geography
- Sogod Bay, Southern Leyte province, Philippines; coastal waters of Pintuyan, San Francisco, Liloan, Padre Burgos, and Limasawa municipalities.