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Benthic Habitat Mapping
Coastal Bend, Texas 2004/2007 Benthic Data Set
The Texas coastal bend project has been conducted in 3 phases. Phase I of this project covers Corpus Christi Bay, Redfish Bay, Upper Laguna Madre, Baffin Bay, and Aransas and Copano Bays (which include the new Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve). Phase IIa consists of Lower Laguna Madre, and Phase IIb includes San Antonio and Espritu Santo Bays. The mapping for the whole system has been conducted by a team of private sector vendors using extensive field work and semi-automated methods. Existing digital camera (ADS 40) imagery, originally collected for the National Agriculture Imagery Program, served as the primary source imagery to create the benthic habitat maps for Phase I and IIa. UltraCam imagery, acquired in late 2007, is being used to map the Phase IIb areas. The seagrass monitoring program in Texas will use these benthic maps to help locate, monitor, and protect seagrass beds as well as shallow-water shellfish resources. The Center provided direct funding to the project partners and private sector mapping firms as well as validation of the derived habitat data. Mapping for Phase IIb of the project, San Antonio Bay and, Espiritu Santo Bay is expected to be complete in 2008.
Corpus Christi Bay, Texas 1994 SAV Data Set The geographic extent of the study area was the entire Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program including Copano Bay, Aransas Bay, Redfish Bay, Nueces Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, Baffin Bay, and Upper Laguna Madre. The SAV distribution data is used for resource management, assessing natural and man-made impacts on SAV, and as a data source for bay and estuary modeling. Staff from the Center provided early consultation support to this effort and furnished protocols for conducting the SAV mapping. For more information and access to the data, please visit the Texas General Land Office Web site.
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This project was initiated by the 
This
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