HR: 1330h
AN: OS52B-0913    [PDF]
TI: Comparison of Airborne Lidar and Multibeam Bathymetric Data in the Florida Reef Tract Along Broward County
AU: * Morton, N E
EM: nate.morton@fwc.state.fl.us
AF: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission -- Florida Marine Research Institute, 100 Eighth Ave SE, St. Petersburg, Fl 33701 United States
AU: Burd, J J
EM: jim.burd@fwc.state.fl.us
AF: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission -- Florida Marine Research Institute, 100 Eighth Ave SE, St. Petersburg, Fl 33701 United States
AB: Although large, well-known concentrations of corals are found in deeper waters off Florida's eastern seaboard, most mapping of Florida's coral resources addresses the relatively shallow waters of the Florida Keys. To date, technological limitations precluded mapping corals in these deeper waters. Satellite imaging systems and natural color aerial photography, two mapping mainstays, are generally only effective in Florida waters shallower than 20 meters. Conservation of the northern portion of the Florida reef tract, which parallels the Atlantic coast in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, has been hampered by minimal or nonexistent coordinated management, monitoring, and mapping activities. In November 2000, the Simrad EM3000 multibeam system was used to collect data south of Port Everglades. Additionally, the Broward County shore protection project conducted a Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) survey in 2001. Wavelet analyses performed on overlapping transects of the two data sets compare the accuracy of reef bathymetry and complexity captured in the two data collection projects.
UR: http://www.floridamarine.org
DE: 3045 Seafloor morphology and bottom photography
DE: 3094 Instruments and techniques
DE: 4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes (0689)
DE: 4299 General or miscellaneous
DE: 4546 Nearshore processes
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting