A5032827752- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine and fisheries research
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Cruise Tourism Development and Management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Q Methodology Applications
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
Arizona State University
2024
National Geographic Society
2021
Coral reefs underpin the environmental, social, and economic fabrics of much world's tropical coast. Yet, fine-scale distribution composition coral have never been reported consistently across planet. Here, we present new area estimates enabled by global geomorphic zone benthic substrate maps at 5 m pixel resolution. We revise reef to 348,361 km2 shallow 80,213 (46,237–106,319 km2, 95% confidence interval) habitat. The mapping used more than 1.5 million training samples supported 480+ data...
Our ability to completely and repeatedly map natural environments at a global scale have increased significantly over the past decade. These advances are from delivery of range on-line satellite image archives global-scale processing capabilities, along with improved spatial temporal resolution imagery. The accurately train validate these scale-mapping programs what we will call “reference data sets” is challenging due lack coordinated financial personnel resourcing, standardized methods...