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          Geographic_Element: 
            Geographic_Bounding_Box: 
              Extent_Type_Code: 
                Boolean: 
                  1
              West_Bound_Longitude: 
                Decimal: 
                  145.823924715674
              East_Bound_Longitude: 
                Decimal: 
                  145.861525223777
              South_Bound_Latitude: 
                Decimal: 
                  17.2912461346099
              North_Bound_Latitude: 
                Decimal: 
                  17.3269846897986
      Coupling_Type: 
        Coupling_Type: 
          tight
      Contains_Operations: 
        Operation_Metadata: 
          Operation_Name: 
            GetCapabilities
          Distributed_Computing_Platforms: 
          Connect_Point: 
            Online_Resource: 
              Linkage: 
                URL: 
                  http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/PACIOOS/gwc/service/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=GetCapabilities&tiled=true
              Protocol: 
                OGC:WMS-C
              Name: 
                OGC-WMS-C
              Description: 
                Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service - Cached (WMS-C). 
                Use of WMS-C is similar to traditional WMS but with the 
                addition of the "tiled=true" parameter, which triggers 
                GeoServer to pull map tiles from GeoWebCache if they have been 
                previously generated. This can dramatically improve 
                performance, especially for larger datasets. Supported map 
                formats include JPEG and PNG. Supported info formats include 
                GeoJSON, GML, HTML, and plain text.
              Function: 
                OnLine_Function_Code: 
                  download
      Operates_On: 
  Content_Information: 
    Coverage_Description: 
      Attribute_Description: 
      Content_Type: 
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                acres
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    double
          Descriptor: 
            Area of benthic habitat polygons in acres.
          Value_Unit: 
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                area
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    double
          Descriptor: 
            Area of benthic habitat polygons in square meters.
          Value_Unit: 
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                cover
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    string
          Descriptor: 
            Concatenated field of major cover and percent cover used.
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                d_struct
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    string
          Descriptor: 
            Detailed reef structure.
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                geom
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    gml:MultiSurfacePropertyType
          Descriptor: 
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                id
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    int
          Descriptor: 
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                island
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    string
          Descriptor: 
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                m_cover
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    string
          Descriptor: 
            Major biological cover.
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                m_struct
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    string
          Descriptor: 
            Major reef structure.
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                p_cover
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    string
          Descriptor: 
            Percent biological cover of major cover type.
          Value_Unit: 
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                perimeter
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    double
          Descriptor: 
            Perimeter of benthic habitat polygons in meters.
          Value_Unit: 
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                polygonid
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    int
          Descriptor: 
            Polygon identifier: an incremental value generated for QA/QC 
            adjacency testing.
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                uniqueid
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    int
          Descriptor: 
            A four-digit numerical value representing a unique habitat 
            combination of structure and cover attributes.
      Dimension: 
        Band: 
          Sequence_Identifier: 
            Member_Name: 
              Name: 
                zone
              Attribute_Type: 
                Type_Name: 
                  Name: 
                    string
          Descriptor: 
            Geomorphologic zone.
  Distribution_Information: 
    Distribution: 
      Distributor: 
        Distributor: 
          Distributor_Contact: 
            Responsible_Party: 
              Individual_Name: 
              Organisation_Name: 
                Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)
              Contact_Information: 
                Contact: 
                  Address: 
                    Address: 
                      Electronic_Mail_Address: 
                        info@pacioos.org
                  Online_Resource: 
                    Online_Resource: 
                      Linkage: 
                        URL: 
                          http://pacioos.org
                      Protocol: 
                        http
                      Application_Profile: 
                        web browser
                      Function: 
                        OnLine_Function_Code: 
                          information
              Role: 
                Role_Code: 
                  publisher
          Distributor_Transfer_Options: 
            Digital_Transfer_Options: 
              Online: 
                Online_Resource: 
                  Linkage: 
                    URL: 
                      http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/
                  Protocol: 
                    http
                  Name: 
                    GeoServer
                  Description: 
                    This URL provides access to this dataset via GeoServer, 
                    which offers multiple output formats and an OpenLayers 
                    viewer.
                  Function: 
                    OnLine_Function_Code: 
                      download
          Distributor_Transfer_Options: 
            Digital_Transfer_Options: 
              Online: 
                Online_Resource: 
                  Linkage: 
                    URL: 
                      http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoexplorer/
                  Protocol: 
                    http
                  Name: 
                    GeoExplorer
                  Description: 
                    This URL provides a viewer for this dataset.
                  Function: 
                    OnLine_Function_Code: 
                      download
          Distributor_Transfer_Options: 
            Digital_Transfer_Options: 
              Online: 
                Online_Resource: 
                  Linkage: 
                    URL: 
                      http://pacioos.org/voyager/index.html?b=17.294183,145.827374,17.324092,145.854797&t=h&o=benth:1::d23l0o90
                  Protocol: 
                    http
                  Name: 
                    PacIOOS Voyager (Google Maps API)
                  Description: 
                    This URL provides a viewer and/or data access for this 
                    dataset.
                  Function: 
                    OnLine_Function_Code: 
                      download
          Distributor_Transfer_Options: 
            Digital_Transfer_Options: 
              Online: 
                Online_Resource: 
                  Linkage: 
                    URL: 
                      http://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/collections/benthic/e99us_pac/
                  Protocol: 
                    http
                  Name: 
                    Shapefiles: American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of 
                    the Northern Mariana Islands
                  Description: 
                    This NOAA/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Branch website provides 
                    documentation and data access to the original benthic 
                    habitat Shapefiles for American Samoa, Guam, and the 
                    Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
                  Function: 
                    OnLine_Function_Code: 
                      download
  Data_Quality_Information: 
    Data_Quality: 
      Scope: 
        Scope: 
          Hierarchy_Level: 
            Scope_Code: 
              dataset
      Lineage: 
        Lineage: 
          Statement: 
            2017-11-22T00:00:00Z OGC web services (WMS and WFS) enabled by 
            PacIOOS via GeoServer. Original data from source provider may have 
            been reformatted, reprojected, or adjusted in other ways to 
            optimize these capabilities.
  Metadata_Maintenance: 
    Maintenance_Information: 
      Maintenance_And_Update_Frequency: 
      Maintenance_Note: 
        This record was translated and enhanced from GeoServer OGC Web 
        Services (OWS) using PacIOOS software.