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Preliminary hard and soft bottom seafloor substrate map derived from an unsupervised classification of gridded backscatter and bathymetry derivatives at Tutuila Island, American Samoa, South Pacific.

Metadata Updated: January 31, 2026

Preliminary hard and soft seafloor substrate map derived from an unsupervised classification of multibeam backscatter and bathymety derivatives at Tutuila Island, American Samoa, South Pacific. The dataset was derived using a combination of Simrad em3002d and Reson 8101 backscatter, bathymetric variance and bathymetric rugosity. The sonar frequencies are 300 kHz and 240 kHz for the em3002d and the 8101 data respectively and all data were resampled to 5 m grid cell size prior to the classification. Initial supervised classifications of the backscatter data into hard and soft seafloor substrates, using seafloor photographs for groundtruthing and to define regions of interest, were used to define unsupervised class types and to visually evaluate the accuracy of the unsupervised classification seafloor substrate map.

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License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Date December 15, 2024
Metadata Created Date January 31, 2026
Metadata Updated Date January 31, 2026
Reference Date(s) June 2, 2008 (publication)
Frequency Of Update asNeeded

Metadata Source

Harvested from CoRIS FGDC Metadata

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Hard and Soft Seafloor Substrate

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date December 15, 2024
Metadata Created Date January 31, 2026
Metadata Updated Date January 31, 2026
Reference Date(s) June 2, 2008 (publication)
Responsible Party Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (Point of Contact)
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Guid tut_unspv_hardvsoft_5m
Access Constraints Use Constraints: These data are not to be used for navigation purposes. Please acknowledge the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) and the Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), and the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR) and School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaii as the sources of this information., Access Constraints: None
Bbox East Long -170.484814
Bbox North Lat -14.195351
Bbox South Lat -14.384053
Bbox West Long -170.928197
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update asNeeded
Graphic Preview Description Hard and Soft Seafloor Substrate
Graphic Preview File https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/amsamoa_images/TUT_unspv_hardvsoft_5m_445.jpg
Graphic Preview Type JPEG
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Harvest Source Id d96f14c5-3e35-4b0a-a3b8-9392afeb50fa
Harvest Source Title CoRIS FGDC Metadata
Licence These data are not to be used for navigational purposes. NOAA makes no warranty regarding these data, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data, nor as a result of the failure of these data to function on a particular system.
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Metadata Language eng; USA
Metadata Type geospatial
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Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2004-02-25
Temporal Extent End 2006-02-26

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