Global Airborne Observatory: Hawaiian Islands Live Coral Cover 2020

An airborne mapping approach combining laser-guided imaging spectroscopy and deep learning models was used to quantify the geographic distribution of live corals to 16 m water depth throughout the eight main Hawaiian Islands in 2020.  Full methods are provided in:

Asner, G.P., N.R. Vaughn, R.E. Martin, S.A. Foo, J. Heckler, B.J. Neilson, J.M. Gove. 2022. Mapped coral mortality and refugia in an archipelago-scale marine heatwave. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(9) e2123331119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2123331119

The data are in standard GeoTIFF file format organized by island.

Acknowledgements: This study was supported by the Lenfest Ocean Program, State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, and NOAA Fisheries Pacific.  The results are a product of the Hawaii Office of Coastal Zone Management Program, pursuant to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Award No. NA1 7NOS4l90102, funded in part by the Coastal Zone Management Act f 1972, as amended, administered by the Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NOAA or any of its sub-agencies.