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Coral Reefs


SVS >> Coral Reefs
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Located in tropical latitudes, the hard structures we know as coral are really the incremental build-ups of calcium carbonate deposited from the skeletal remains of these tiny colonial animals. 2012 Landsat 7 Looks at Pseudo Atolls
Near infrared data makes some areas on the reef jump out in bright red relief. The near infrared band best gathers the electromagnetic signature of a thriving ecosystem. 2011 Landsat 7 Looks at Barriers
But over time, while the surrounding ocean wears away the main body of the island, the coral ring remains. 2010 Landsat 7 Looks at Banks
Detailed images of reefs from nearly 900 locations around the world have been collected in the first year of the Landsat 7 mission. 2009 Landsat 7 Looks at Coral Reefs: (2 of 2)
These elegant whorls of color are atolls, enclosed coral reefs almost always surrounding a lagoon. Generally speaking, atolls are the products of volcanic islands that have eroded away. 2008 Landsat 7 Looks at Coral Reefs: (1 of 2)
With the Landsat 7 data we can rigorously test hypotheses about how entire reef ecosystems form,-- says coral reef ecologist Bruce Hatcher of Dalhousie University--We no longer are limited to the observations we can collect by wandering around in small boats and sampling individual reefs to infer large-scale processes from a few samples. 2007 Coral Reef Flyover of the Florida Keys
Highway U.S. 1 in Florida, built on Coral Reefs. Here is a MPEG of the Animation. 2006 US1 Flyover of the Florida Keys
Coral Reefs in Puerto Rico 934 Northwest Corner of Puerto Rico Showing Shallow Waters and Coral Reefs

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