gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:47849 eng UTF8 dataset Office for Coastal Management resourceProvider NOAA Office for Coastal Management (843) 740-1202 2234 South Hobson Ave Charleston SC 29405-2413 coastal.info@noaa.gov https://coast.noaa.gov WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA Office for Coastal Management Website NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page information pointOfContact 2024-02-29T00:00:00 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) complex 569 Klawock Lagoon, Alaska Benthic Habitats 2011 Substrate ak_kl11-substrate_Metadata 2015 publication NOAA/NMFS/EDM 47849 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/47849 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Full Metadata Record View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. information https://iocm.noaa.gov/cmecs WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link CMECS Home Page Information and resources on the CMECS standard and how to apply it download https://coast.noaa.gov/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA's Office for Coastal Management (OCM) website Information on the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) download http://www.cmecscatalog.org/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link CMECS Catalog Searchable online catalog of CMECS units, descriptions, and source references download https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA's Office for Coastal Management (OCM) Digital Coast Data section The website provides not only coastal data, but also the tools, training, and information needed to make these data truly useful. Content comes from many sources, all of which are vetted by NOAA. download mapDigital The Klawock River on Alaska's Prince of Wales Island drains a 29,061 acre watershed with 132 miles of streambed habitat supporting seven salmon and trout species. Traditionally the river and lagoon supported salmon harvests exceeding 30,000 fish annually. The salmon fishery is an important economic factor and food source in the Klawock area. It is also an important cultural resource to local inhabitants. In 1964 a causeway was constructed blocking access to the lagoon from adjacent Klawock Bay. This has resulted in dramatic decreases in salmon harvests. The Nature Conservancy has lead a broad partnership to construct a culvert through the causeway thus re-establishing free passage between the river and Klawock Bay which is expected to help restore a full use of the river as spawning habitat by salmon and generally improve the quality of the lagoon. Benthic habitats in the lagoon and adjacent Klawock Bay and Klawock Harbor were mapped in spring 2011 to establish a baseline of benthic communities in the area with emphasis on eelgrass beds which are essential to the early survival of salmon fry. The habitat map will guide ongoing monitoring activities in the lagoon and form the basis of future change detection efforts. Aerial multi-spectral imagery was collected over the lagoon, bay, and harbor during the week of April 19, 2011. The mission was timed to coincide with the breaching of the causeway. The environmental considerations important to successful benthic mapping were incorporated into the mission planning. These included, imagery to be collected within 1.5 hours of a zero or negative tide, clear water conditions (no algal blooms, or sediment plumes from runoff), low winds to avoid surface waves, and sufficient solar illumination to image submerged areas. These collection parameters were defined by the Office for Coastal Management prior to collection of the imagery. Despite weather and water conditions which were not ideal, imagery adequate to map most of the habitats in the lagoon was successfully collected on April 19, 2011. Eelgrass habitats in the Lagoon did not have sufficient biomass or illumination through the water column at the time of the aerial mission to be mapped from that source so eelgrass habitats were determined by two field-digitizing processes, one in August 2010 and one in September 2011. The final hybrid map captures habitats 10m x 10m or larger and has the same positional accuracy as the source imagery. Field data to guide the mapping was supplied by several project partners. A comparison between the field data and the map shows high levels of agreement, although no traditional quantitative accuracy assessment was conducted. Original contact information: Contact Org: NOAA Office for Coastal Management Phone: 843-740-1202 Email: coastal.info@noaa.gov The data was developed to establish a baseline of benthic habitats in the lagoon and support future change detection activities. These data contribute to assessing conditions prior to opening of a new culvert between the Klawock River, the lagoon, and Klawock Bay to re-establish salmon use of the Klawock River. The focus of the mapping was on shallow water benthic habitats with particular concern for eelgrass meadows. completed NOAA Office for Coastal Management (843) 740-1202 2234 South Hobson Ave Charleston SC 29405-2413 coastal.info@noaa.gov https://coast.noaa.gov WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA Office for Coastal Management Website NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page information pointOfContact NOAA Office for Coastal Management (843) 740-1202 2234 South Hobson Ave Charleston SC 29405-2413 coastal.info@noaa.gov https://coast.noaa.gov WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA Office for Coastal Management Website NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page information custodian asNeeded https://coast.noaa.gov/data/Images/Collections/BenthicCover_thumbnail.jpg Sample of benthic cover data JPEG EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > ESTUARY theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords 17.0 CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ALASKA place Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords 20.8 Benthic CMECS Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard Environmental Monitoring Habitat NOAA Substrate Component The Nature Conservancy theme Alaska Klawock Bay Klawock Harbor Klawock Lagoon U.S. place DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCM > Office of Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2017-04-24 publication 8.5 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian Benthic project InPort otherRestrictions Cite As: Office for Coastal Management, [Date of Access]: Klawock Lagoon, Alaska Benthic Habitats 2011 Substrate [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/47849. NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. 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It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose. unclassified NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA/NMFS/EDM 47849 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/47849.pdf WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. information crossReference vector eng; US environment -133.105445 -133.074666 55.542561 55.558106 | Currentness: Ground Condition 2011-04-19 The study area covers Klawock Lagoon, Klawock Harbor, and Klawock Bay, Borough of Juneau, Alaska. false eng false Substrate 2017-11-16 publication NOAA Office for Coastal Management (843) 740-1202 2234 South Hobson Ave Charleston SC 29405-2413 coastal.info@noaa.gov https://coast.noaa.gov WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA Office for Coastal Management Website NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page information distributor ftp://ftp.coast.noaa.gov/pub/benthic/Benthic_Cover_Data/AK_KlawockLagoon.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Bulk Download FTP download of data files. download dataset Accuracy Polygon labels and boundaries were visually inspected for delineation precision and attribute accuracy. In August 2011 a draft habitat map was reviewed by OCM staff and project partners to identify areas of error or confusion. The users did not identify any significant errors in the map. In September, TNC staff visited 59 sites in the bay and lagoon and collected field photography to refine the map and further assess its quality. These field photos were collected at pre-selected sites to confirm conditions on the ground. A hand-held GPS unit was used to ensure that the photo was taken to obtain a coordinate for the photo to ensure successful comparison to the map. In this initial assessment, X of X photos were in agreement with the draft map. Horizontal Positional Accuracy An independent NSSDA spatial accuracy assessment was not performed on the imagery; however, imagery from the GeoScanner system typically produces ortho-rectified products with a spatial accuracy meeting or exceeding +/- 3m of position on the group CE95. Completeness Measure Cloud Cover: 0 Completeness Report Minimum mapping unit for habitat polygons was 100 square meters. The study area boundary for the project was defined by TNC. Benthic habitat features were captured and classified according to the rules, conventions, and descriptions in the Statement of Work. Conceptual Consistency Polygon topology present. Every polygon has a label, there are no multiple labels within polygons, there are no contiguous polygons. The imagery was flown on 4/19/2011 between 9:35 and 10:24 A.M. by Geovantage Inc. The horizontal spatial accuracy of the imagery reported by the vendor is within +/- 3 meters CE95 of position on the ground. The radiometric resolution of the 4 band image composites is 12-bit. The imagery was processed to remove atmospheric effects such as haze and to highlight the spectral response of submerged areas. The imagery has some exposure variation between adjacent flight lines and between sunlit and cloud shaded areas. The 4 band imagery is provided in GeoTIFF format. The imagery was captured at a spatial resolution (pixel size) of 0.25m x 0.25m and was delivered in a Universal Transverse Mercator - Zone 8 projection using the NAD1983 datum. 2011-04-01T00:00:00 The benthic habitat map was developed through image segmentation using the Trimble eCognition Developer software. Image segments representing spectrally homogenous area in the source imagery were generated using a scale factor 20-25. A draft map was generated by classifying the image segments into one of 5 habitat classes (coastal marsh, unconsolidated sediments, unconsolidated bottom, macroalgae, and eelgrass) using the Nearest Neighbor classifier in Trimble eCognition Developer. Training data was derived through photo interpretation using available provided field information as a reference. The resulting draft map was reviewed by the project team through visual inspection and comparison to ground photos. Additional edits were made through manual labeling of the segments. Due to poor water clarity in Klawock Lagoon eelgrass habitat boundaries in the lagoon were generated by staff kayaking along the perimeter of the beds with a GPS logging their position every second. Two of these kayak-digitized polygons (one collected in August 2010 and one in September 2011) were merged to create a maximum extent of eelgrass polygon which was incorporated into the final benthic habitat map. 2011-10-01T00:00:00 The data were converted from a single ESRI polygon shapefile classified according to the System for Classifying Habitats in Estuarine and Marine Environments (SCHEME) to the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) 2012 format (which can be found at https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/cmecs-crosswalk) which produces separate geoform, substrate, and substrate feature layers from the original input benthic habitat dataset. This substrate feature layer contains CMECS substrate component attributes where an "Equal" or "Nearly Equal" SCHEME value was present in the original data. Polygons for which no substrate information was present have been removed. No other changes to the original polygon boundaries or any other alterations of the original SCHEME data were made during this process. 2015-01-01T00:00:00 Source Contribution: photographic signature for interpretation of benthic habitat data. | Type of Source Media: Digital orthophotos 12000 2011 Benthic Habitat GeoScanner Imagery 2011-01-01 publication Geovantage, Inc 2011-04-19