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Northeast Region: Long Island South Shore SAV Data Set 2002

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This project was initiated by the New York Department of State's Division of Coastal Resources office (NYDOS) and local government agencies to create a baseline submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) map of Long Island's South Shore Estuary Reserve. This baseline inventory is a key element of the Comprehensive Management Plan developed for the reserve. The data will be used for change detection in the future.

Conventional-color metric aerial photography was acquired in June 2002, and the habitat mapping and ortho mosaic development were accomplished by soft-copy photogrammetric methods. Center staff conducted initial fieldwork to support the image interpretation and conducted a field validation of the final SAV map in the early fall of 2003.

Download data: ny_liss02.zip

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