Coral Reefs: Spatial Distribution
Coral Reefs: Spatial Distribution
Posted March 19, 2013Voyager’s “fish & wildlife” category now includes a global spatial distribution map for coral reefs. It was compiled in 2010 from numerous data sources by UNEP-WCMC and the WorldFish Center in collaboration with the World Resources Institute and The Nature Conservancy. This is the highest resolution global coral reef dataset to date, with the majority (85%) of the data mapped at 30-meter resolution. Clicking on a reef polygon within Voyager produces a pop-up with further information, such as what type of reef it is (barrier, fringe, patch, shelf, etc.) as well as its location name.
Coral reef distribution for Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi:
Coral reef distribution for Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM):
PacIOOS has generated a Web Map Service (WMS) from the UNEP-WCMC Shapefile. This interoperable Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard will help users who may want to incorporate map imagery of this layer into other mapping applications: WMS GetCapabilities.
For more information about this dataset, please visit UNEP-WCMC’s Ocean Data Viewer for documentation and Shapefile access: http://data.unep-wcmc.org
