Brief description
This data consists of 1867 records derived from 6 tows covering 5.125 km at 2.75m resolution, over a depth range of 59.9 to 45.6 meters. Classification of the benthos and substrate was based on 17 benthic classes and 6 substrate classes.Summary of the primary benthic categories recorded
Hard Coral 10.44%
Macroalgae 80.88%
NoBenthos 5.36%
Other 3.32%
Summary of substrates recorded
NoSub 10.12%
Rubble 0.37%
SandCoarse 89.50%
A custom interface has been developed by AIMS staff for reading Towed Video tapes.
Full description
Point of truth URL of this metadata record -http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Resources/valids/archives/keyword_list.html -
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Subjects
Aquatic Ecosystems |
Benthic Habitat |
Biological Classification |
Biosphere |
Cnidarians |
Coastal Processes |
Coral Reefs |
Coral bleaching |
Oceans |
Reef Habitat |
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Identifiers
- Local : towed-video-benthic-survey-of-lihou-reef-2004-10-07-to-2004-10-14
- URI : data.gov.au/data/dataset/c6281cf5-28a6-4e1f-8eba-3305bc20050d
