Table 1,
cont’d.
Scale Data Source, date, update frequency
Availability
Derived from Remote Sensing
Global Land Cover
Characteristics Database
(IGBP DISCover)
1 km grid AVHRR
8
satellite assessment of land
cover, including land cover near coasts;
1992-1993 data
U.S. Geological Survey et al., (Loveland et al. 2000). Available
online at http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/glcc/glcc.asp
MODIS Land Cover
Product
1 km MODIS
9
satellite assessment, quarterly (Friedl et al., 2002). Available
online through http://geography.bu.edu/landcover/userguidelc/
LandScan 30
grid
(1 km)
National population censuses, U.S.
Bureau of the Census P-95 data, Global
Demography Project census data, roads,
slope, land cover, Nighttime Lights of the
World, WVS coastlines; 2000, 2001,
2002, annual updates
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Dobson 2000). Available online
at http://www.ornl.gov/sci/gist/landscan/index.html
SeaWiFS Global Shallow
Bathymetry
1 km grid Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor
(SeaWiFS), gives bathymetry from 1-100
m in depth, 2002.
SeaWiFS project and NOAA (Stumpf et al., 2003b). Available
online at http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/reefs.pl and ftp://samoa.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/seawifs_bathymetry/
Sea Surface Temperature
Operational Products for
Coral Bleaching
Prediction: (1)
Anomalies, (2) Coral
Bleaching Hotspots, (3)
Degree Heating Weeks
(1) 36 km
(2) 50 km
(3) 50 km
Advanced Very High Resolution
Radiometer (AVHRR) data; 1996present, monthly
NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch (Strong et al., 2000). Available
online at
http://orbitnet.nesdis.noaa.gov/orad/ coral_bleaching_ index.html; higher resolution (9 km) “Pathfinder” temperatures
and climatologies also available
(Kilpatrick et al., 2001). Available online at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/sst/
SRTM Digital
Topographic data
90 m grid Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
(SRTM), 30 m resolution for U.S., 90 m
globally, 2000.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Werner, 2001), distributed by U.S. Geological Survey. Available online at http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/cbanddataproducts.html
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cont’d.
Scale Data Source, date, update frequency
Availability
Derived from Remote Sensing
Global Land Cover
Characteristics Database
(IGBP DISCover)
1 km grid AVHRR
8
satellite assessment of land
cover, including land cover near coasts;
1992-1993 data
U.S. Geological Survey et al., (Loveland et al. 2000). Available
online at http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/glcc/glcc.asp
MODIS Land Cover
Product
1 km MODIS
9
satellite assessment, quarterly (Friedl et al., 2002). Available
online through http://geography.bu.edu/landcover/userguidelc/
LandScan 30
grid
(1 km)
National population censuses, U.S.
Bureau of the Census P-95 data, Global
Demography Project census data, roads,
slope, land cover, Nighttime Lights of the
World, WVS coastlines; 2000, 2001,
2002, annual updates
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Dobson 2000). Available online
at http://www.ornl.gov/sci/gist/landscan/index.html
SeaWiFS Global Shallow
Bathymetry
1 km grid Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor
(SeaWiFS), gives bathymetry from 1-100
m in depth, 2002.
SeaWiFS project and NOAA (Stumpf et al., 2003b). Available
online at http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/reefs.pl and ftp://samoa.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/seawifs_bathymetry/
Sea Surface Temperature
Operational Products for
Coral Bleaching
Prediction: (1)
Anomalies, (2) Coral
Bleaching Hotspots, (3)
Degree Heating Weeks
(1) 36 km
(2) 50 km
(3) 50 km
Advanced Very High Resolution
Radiometer (AVHRR) data; 1996present, monthly
NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch (Strong et al., 2000). Available
online at
http://orbitnet.nesdis.noaa.gov/orad/ coral_bleaching_ index.html; higher resolution (9 km) “Pathfinder” temperatures
and climatologies also available
(Kilpatrick et al., 2001). Available online at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/sst/
SRTM Digital
Topographic data
90 m grid Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
(SRTM), 30 m resolution for U.S., 90 m
globally, 2000.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Werner, 2001), distributed by U.S. Geological Survey. Available online at http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/cbanddataproducts.html
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