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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A scanner system that simultaneously acquires images of the same scene in various wavelength bands.
Industry:Natural environment
A scanning radiometer with six spectral channels centred at 0.443, 0.520, 0.550, 0.670, 0.750 and 11.5 micrometres and selected to allow measurement of ocean colour and temperature, suspended sediment and chlorophyll concentrations, and ocean pollutants.
Industry:Natural environment
A series of deepwater coral pinnacles and ridges, 15 to 30 miles off the east coast of Florida, extending from Ft. Pierce to Cape Canaveral. Formed by a single species of coral, the Ivory Tree Coral, Oculina varicosa, they form pinnacles of up to 100 feet tall, growing below the Gulf Stream at depths of approximately 70 to 100 meters. This is a slow-growing, branching coral often associated with high biodiversity because they provide ideal habitats and spawning sites for numerous species of fishes and invertebrates.
Industry:Natural environment
A broad, collaborative programme to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical toolsmaintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry.
Industry:Natural environment
A broad-band, four or five channel (depending on the model) scanner, sensing in the visible, near-infrared, and thermal infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. This sensor is carried on NOAA's Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES). AVHRR is used for studying and monitoring vegetation conditions. Applications include agricultural assessment, land cover mapping, producing image maps of large areas and tracking regional and continental snow cover. AVHRR data are also used to retrieve various geophysical parameters such as sea surface temperatures (SST) and energy budget data.
Industry:Natural environment
A chart of the known chemical elements, arranged according to their atomic numbers. Elements with similar physical and chemical properties and similar electron arrangements are in the same column.
Industry:Natural environment
A class of arthropods in the subphylum Crustacea. The more than 20,000 described species of Malacostraca can be divided into two groups, the Phyllocarida, and the Eumalacostraca. Phyllocarida contains the oldest crustacean known and includes only one living group.The Eumalacostraca consists of all Malacostracan groups other than the Phyllocarida. Eumalacostracans generally possess a well-developed carapace and a long, muscular abdomen. It is the group that contains most of the animals the general public recognise as crustaceans, such as shrimp, crabs, lobsters .
Industry:Natural environment
A class of bony fishes comprising the ray-finned fishes, which make up about half of all vertebrate species known. They are found in most aquatic habitats from the abyssal depths of the ocean, greater than 10,000 m, to high altitude freshwater streams and ponds; a few species can even move about on land for short periods of time. Ray-finned fishes constitute a major human food source.
Industry:Natural environment
A class of Cnidaria that includes the stony corals, soft corals, sea anemones, gorgonians, and corallimorpharians.
Industry:Natural environment
