| Titre | Bay-scale habitat mapping of American lobster (Homarus americanus) |
| Télécharger | Téléchargement (publication entière) |
| Auteur | McKee, A; Grant, J |
| Source | Program and abstracts: 2017 GeoHab Conference, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; par Todd, B J; Brown, C J; Lacharité, M; Gazzola, V; McCormack, E; Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 8295,
2017 p. 83, https://doi.org/10.4095/305891 (Accès ouvert) |
| Liens | GeoHab 2017
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| Année | 2017 |
| Éditeur | Ressources naturelles Canada |
| Réunion | 2017 GeoHab: Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping; Dartmouth, NS; CA; mai 1-4, 2017 |
| Document | dossier public |
| Lang. | anglais |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4095/305891 |
| Media | en ligne; numérique |
| Référence reliée | Cette publication est contenue dans Todd, B J;
Brown, C J; Lacharité, M; Gazzola, V; McCormack, E; (2017). Program and abstracts: 2017 GeoHab Conference, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 8295 |
| Formats | pdf |
| Sujets | techniques de cartographie; océanographie; milieux marins; études côtières; conservation; organismes marins; écologie marine; gestion des ressources; peuplements biologiques; etudes de l'environnement;
écosystèmes; benthos; planification; interprétations géophysiques; levés acoustiques marins; levés au sonar; photographie; biologie; système d'information géographique; pêcheries; gestion des pêches; aquaculture; géologie marine; géologie des dépôts
meubles/géomorphologie; géologie de l'environnement; géophysique |
| Programme | Géoscience de la gestion des océans, Géoscience en mer |
| Diffusé | 2017 09 26 |
| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
Bay-scale habitat maps for benthic organisms, especially those of economically important species, are important for the comprehensive development of Marine
Spatial Planning (MSP) initiatives. However, few such maps of that scale exist for the American lobster (Homarus americanus) in Canada's Maritime provinces. There are several coastal activities considered by MSP which occur at scales of less than 1
km (e.g. aquaculture, etc.), but which have limited spatial placement options because of the broadly binned or patchy lobster habitat data available.
Therefore, the objective of this project is to develop a standard method of bay-scale lobster
habitat mapping specifically for the purposes of adding scientific GIS layers to the MSP process of finfish aquaculture lease placement. Two bays in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have been surveyed and mapped using acoustic data (backscatter from a
single-beam echosounding system), ground-truth video, and various forms of lobster presence data. Through different procedures, the acoustic data have been split into substrate category bins and interpolated between tracks, then compared to the
ground-truth video to create error matrices and provide estimates of accuracy. The accuracy of the maps created through these differing procedures has been evaluated and the early results of this work will discussed. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 305891 |
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