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Mapping Coastal Elevations and Water Depths Using Unmanned Vehicles ...
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Many organizations need imagery, and elevation and depth data to effectively manage our nation’s coastlines. However, coastal areas are expensive and ...
Home - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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NCCOS provides coastal managers with the scientific information necessary to decide how best to protect environmental resources and public health ...
Guidelines Published for Mapping Nearshore Coastal Seafloor Using ...
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NOAA and its partners have published guidelines for using aerial drones to map the nearshore coastal seafloor. Several organizations need imagery and ...
NCCOS | Benthic Habitat Mapping - National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
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Benthic Habitat Mapping. NCCOS is producing benthic/seafloor habitat maps to help coastal managers assess, protect, and preserve the condition of coas ...
Guidelines for Bathymetric Mapping and Orthoimage Generation using sUAS ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/guidelines-for-bathymetric-mapping-and-orthoimage-generation-using-suas-and-sfm-an-approach-for-conducting-nearshore-coastal-mapping/
The absence of accurate, contemporary, or detailed bathymetric data in nearshore coastal waters impedes coastal research, conservation, disaster ...
Advanced Flood Mapping Helps Visualize Flood Risks on Shifting ...
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This research team is a leader in advancing data collection methods, improving water level and wave model prediction, running coastline change models ...
Mapping Data Visualizations and Online Tools - NCCOS Coastal Science ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/science-areas/habitat-mapping-and-characterization/mapping-data-visualizations-and-online-tools/
3D mapping platforms, such as Living Shipwrecks 3D, are freely available online and allow diverse audiences to directly engage with remote sensing ...
Habitat Mapping and Characterization - NCCOS - NCCOS Coastal Science ...
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Habitat Mapping and Characterization Maps that depict and characterize the physical features and arrangement of seafloor habitats are the foundation ...
Coastal Resilience Mapping Portal - NCCOS - National Centers for ...
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The Nature Conservancy examines nature’s role in reducing coastal flood risk. The program consists of an approach, a web mapping tool, and a network ...
NOAA NCEI Coastal Ecosystem Maps
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This Portal provides access to coastal ecosystem maps (physical data, biotic data, living marine resources, socioeconomic conditions, environmental ...
Mapping Seafloor Relative Reflectance and Assessing Coral Reef ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/mapping-seafloor-relative-reflectance-and-assessing-coral-reef-morphology-with-eaarl-b-topobathymetric-lidar-waveforms/
Topobathymetric lidar is becoming an increasingly valuable tool for benthic habitat mapping, enabling safe, efficient data acquisition over coral ...
Coastal Aquaculture Planning Portal (CAPP) - NCCOS
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The Mariculture Map is a web-based tool for planning and permitting marine aquaculture projects in Alaska. Here you can view and download ...
Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean - NCCOS Coastal Science ...
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Our seafloor mapping of high priority sites using the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster and NOAA aircraft has been supported by NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation ...
Mapping the Long Island Sound Seafloor - NCCOS - NCCOS Coastal Science ...
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This partnership exemplifies NOAA’s commitment to integrated ocean and coastal mapping–to “map once, use many times.” The philosophy emphasizes ...
Benthic Mapping, Ground-Truthing, and Habitat Modeling to Support Great ...
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We are part of a collaborative multi-agency effort that is developing high-resolution benthic habitat maps in key areas of the Great Lakes. Our maps ...
Coastal and Marine Planning - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal ...
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Competition among many users for coastal and marine resources has been on the rise for decades and will continue to increase. Coastal and marine ...
Spatial Prioritization Widget: A Tool to Identify Mapping Priorities ...
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In Washington, after a prioritization exercise was completed in 2015, NOAA’s Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping Office (IOCM) mapped these high ...
Comprehensive Seafloor Substrate Mapping and Model Validation in the ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/comprehensive-seafloor-substrate-mapping-and-model-validation-in-the-new-york-bight/
Prior to this study, NOAA NCCOS has conducted previous efforts to characterize the ocean floor offshore NY. For example, as part of the NY Department ...
Defining Future Seafloor Mapping Priorities to Inform Shallow Coral ...
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NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) uses benthic mapping data on coral reef ecosystems to support a variety of science-based management ...
Benthic Habitat Mapping of Florida Coral Reef Ecosystems to Support ...
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Prior to its completion, only an inconsistent patchwork of smaller map pieces had been available. The Unified Florida Reef Map integrates existing ...