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Spatial Extent of Data

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ISO 19115 Topic Category

geoscientificInformation, environment

Other Subject Keywords

aquatic vascular vegetation, mapping, aquatic vegetation, Habitat alteration and disturbance, habitat map, seagrass bed

Place Keywords

Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi, United States of America

Seagrass map, Cat Island and Ship Island, Mississippi, 2014

This product depicts the spatial coverage of seagrass beds from 0.5-m color-infrared orthoimagery for Cat Island and Ship Island, Mississippi from early fall of 2014. Specifically, the map includes presence and absence of seagrass beds within a potential seagrass extent that was based on topobathymetric data. A minimum mapping unit of 4 square meters was used for this mapping effort.

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Author(s) Nicholas M Enwright orcid, Rosemary Mouton orcid
Publication Date 2022-05-17
Beginning Date of Data 2014-09-22
Ending Date of Data 2014-09-22
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Nicholas M Enwright
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QT07CZ
Citation Enwright, N.M., and Mouton, R., 2022, Seagrass map, Cat Island and Ship Island, Mississippi, 2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QT07CZ.
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Nicholas M. Enwright
Metadata Date 2022-08-16
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