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OAS accession Detail for 0002429, meta_version: 4. Current meta_version is: 10
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| Title: | Digital collection of aerial photographs from the California Coastal Kelp Resources Project, 1999 (NODC Accession 0002429) |
| Abstract: | The dynamic and sometimes vulnerable nature of the California coastal kelp resource, critical as habitat and food for hundreds of related species, required the development of systematic methods for accurately assessing its extent and vitality. Until 1989,the California state-wide coastal kelp resource had only been sporadically mapped and analyzed since an initial state-wide visual survey conducted in 1915 (Rigg 1915). Earlier ground based estimates of kelp canopy extent have given way to modern aerial surveys, which cost effective and accurate methodology for the mapping and quantifying shore kelp resources (Jamison 1971). A substantial portion of the kelp resource habitat falls within the NOAA/National Ocean Service, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS). As part of its conservation and management mandate, the MBNMS established and conducted a kelp resource inventory program within the sanctuary-wide coastal zone in 1999 and 2000. Data acquisition was accomplished utilizing cost-effective medium format (70 mm) vertical aerial infrared photography. This data set contains app. 1,000 infrared aerial photos digitized to archival format directly from the original 70mm slides of the California Coastal Kelp Resource Project 1999 and 2000. Data slides were digitized in archival format as part of a joint MBNMS and NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) project for the Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP) of the National Climatic Data Center in 2005. CDMP Task Order Number L-24. |
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| Start date: | 19991007 |
| End date: | 19991009 |
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| West boundary: | -123.14009 |
| East boundary: | -121.09803 |
| North boundary: | 37.88163 |
| South boundary: | 35.55327 |
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| Submitter: | King, Chad |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NOS; ONMS; Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary |
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| Number of observations: | 532 |
| Supplementary information: | California Coastal Kelp Resources Project data were collected in 1999 and 2000. Images from 1999 are archived in this accession. Images from 2000 are archived in accession 0036513.
This data set consists of images from 70 mm slides. The slides have been digitized. |
| Availability date: | 20060401 |
| Metadata version: | 4 |
| Keydate: | 2005-11-08 15:55:10+00 |
| Editdate: | 2007-12-03 12:24:51+00 |