Universal spatial properties of coral reefs

DOI10.5281/zenodo.10025083Zenodo10025083MaRDI QIDQ6687139FDOQ6687139

Dataset published at Zenodo repository.

Alex Giménez-Romero, Carlos M. Duarte, Manuel A. Matias

Publication date: 20 October 2023

Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Description

Georeferenced database on the spatial properties of all individual shallow-water tropical coral reefs worldwide. The dataset was obtained by processing and analyzing the global-scale coral reef benthic data provided by the Allen Coral Atlas (ACA), a publicly available dataset of high-resolution satellite imagery and machine learning-based coral reef classifications. The original data, already divided into different coral provinces, was segmented to identify the individual reefs of each province using a label assignment algorithm. This allows to analyze several spatial properties of coral reefs such as the size distribution, area-perimeter relationship, fractal dimensions and shape measures. The dataset contains the following measures for each individual reef in each coral province: Area (m) Perimeter (m) Surface fractal dimension Perimeter fractal dimension Compactness Diameter ratio Distance to nearest reef Longitude Latitude Geometry

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