Reef Mapping
87
Habitat map of Cockburn Harbour. South Caicos, based on a supervised classification of CASI muUispectral
imaging data, and showing the very good resolution and habitat differentiation which can be achieved from
these sensors (reproduced by permission of UNESCO, from Green et al 12000]].
N
S
-50
50
100
Metres
xmmr
r *
Habitat type
(with user accuracies)
^^^^Kj-'
a
Acropora palmata zone - 90%
Soft corals & Microdictyon sp - 81%
Soft corals & bare substratum - 80%
Montastraea spp & bare substratum -
Lobophora sp dominated - 82%
Sand - 75%
Penlcitlus & Halimeda algal dominated
Seagrass: low-medium standing crop
Seagrass: medium-high standing crop
Land, sunglinl & unimaged areas
83%
-77%
72%
-93%
ft
Map Information
Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator grid zone 19
Spheroid: Clarke 1866
Datum: NAD27 (Bahamas)
Image date: 16 July 1995
Map derived from airborne
CASI imagery with 1 m
spatial resolution
Overall accuracy of map = 81')
87
Habitat map of Cockburn Harbour. South Caicos, based on a supervised classification of CASI muUispectral
imaging data, and showing the very good resolution and habitat differentiation which can be achieved from
these sensors (reproduced by permission of UNESCO, from Green et al 12000]].
N
S
-50
50
100
Metres
xmmr
r *
Habitat type
(with user accuracies)
^^^^Kj-'
a
Acropora palmata zone - 90%
Soft corals & Microdictyon sp - 81%
Soft corals & bare substratum - 80%
Montastraea spp & bare substratum -
Lobophora sp dominated - 82%
Sand - 75%
Penlcitlus & Halimeda algal dominated
Seagrass: low-medium standing crop
Seagrass: medium-high standing crop
Land, sunglinl & unimaged areas
83%
-77%
72%
-93%
ft
Map Information
Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator grid zone 19
Spheroid: Clarke 1866
Datum: NAD27 (Bahamas)
Image date: 16 July 1995
Map derived from airborne
CASI imagery with 1 m
spatial resolution
Overall accuracy of map = 81')