Seagrass cover map for the optically complex waters of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia (2015) XXX

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The aim of this study was to create a seagrass presence/absence map for the optically complex waters of Moreton Bay. The capability to map seagrass meadows in waters of varying clarity using a consistent and repeatable method is an invaluable resource for conservation and management of seagrass regionally and globally. The map was created using an adaptation of a Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud processing and machine learning algorithm which for seagrass, utilized citizen science spot check field data, Landsat 8 OLI imagery pulled directly from GEE, a bathymetry layer (30 m), slope derived from depth and a coral mask. This dataset consists of a shapefile that shows seagrass presence (≥ 25 % cover) and substrate mapped simultaneously for the turbid waters of the Western Bay coastline and the optically clear waters of the Eastern Banks, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.937501
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.937501
Provenance
Creator Kovacs, Eva M ORCID logo; Roelfsema, Christiaan M ORCID logo; Phinn, Stuart R ORCID logo; Lyons, Mitchell; Udy, James; Baltais, Simon
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/zip
Size 1.2 MBytes
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (153.310 LON, -27.365 LAT); Moreton Bay, Brisbane, South East Queensland, Coral Sea, Australia