{"id":22547,"date":"2019-04-26T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=22547"},"modified":"2019-04-26T14:13:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:13:49","slug":"the-worlds-coral-reefs-mapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/the-worlds-coral-reefs-mapped\/","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s remote coral reefs, mapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly published, a <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.lof.org\/lof\">&#8220;High-resolution habitat and bathymetry maps for 65,000\u00a0sq. km of Earth\u2019s remotest coral reefs&#8221;<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a new world-map of such coral reefs, in an interactive map where the data appears to be Attribution open access&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation embarked on a 10-yr survey of a broad selection of Earth\u2019s remotest reef sites \u2014 the Global Reef Expedition. [producing a] meter-resolution seafloor habitat and bathymetry maps developed from DigitalGlobe satellite imagery and calibrated by field observations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are particularly grateful to our long-standing partnership with Dr. Sam Purkis\u2019 remote sensing lab at the NOVA Southeastern University Oceanographic Center. From the satellite acquisition process, to ground-truthing field work, to creating the habitat maps and bathymetry products, Dr. Purkis\u2019 lab is world-class. Additionally, this magnificent web application was created by an outstanding project management team from Geographic Information Services, Inc (GISi). GIS, Inc. was an absolute pleasure to work with on this exciting project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my example zoom of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.lof.org\/lof\">the interactive map<\/a>, down into the Red Sea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/04\/map1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/04\/map1.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"282\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22551\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/04\/map2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/04\/map2.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"566\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/04\/banks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/04\/banks.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"674\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22549\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/04\/banks2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/04\/banks2.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22548\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The red dots in the top screenshot are the reefs, and the red dots in the last screenshot indicates the project&#8217;s video locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly published, a &#8220;High-resolution habitat and bathymetry maps for 65,000\u00a0sq. km of Earth\u2019s remotest coral reefs&#8221;. It&#8217;s a new world-map &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/the-worlds-coral-reefs-mapped\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}