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Marine Bioregions of the Southwest Pacific - Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Management in Pacific Island Countries (MACBIO)
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Bioregions, of course, are just one of the important data layers in indentifying an ecologically representative system of marine protected areas. To be truly ecologically representative...
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Deep Water Fisheries Catch - Sea Around Us
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Sea Around Us is a research initiative at The University of British Columbia (located at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, formerly Fisheries Centre) that assesses the...
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Aggregated Catch/Effort Data - Western and Central Fisheries Commission
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Western and Central Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) have compiled a public domain version of aggregated catch and effort data using operational, aggregate and annual catch estimates data...
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Ocean Data from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra (originally known as EOS AM-1) and Aqua (originally known as EOS PM-1) satellites. Terra's...
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Ocean Currents - Ocean Surface Current Analysis Real-time (OSCAR)
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
OSCAR (Ocean Surface Current Analysis Real-time) contains near-surface ocean current estimates, derived using quasi-linear and steady flow momentum equations. The horizontal velocity is...
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Global Mangrove Distribution - Global Mangrove Watch
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) is a collaboration between Aberystwyth University (U.K.), solo Earth Observation (soloEO; Japan), Wetlands International the World Conservation Monitoring...
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Volcanoes of the World - Global Volcanism Program
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) is housed in the Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, in Washington D.C. We are devoted to a...
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Global Distribution of Seamounts and Knolls
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This dataset shows the global distribution of seamounts and knolls identified using global bathymetric data at 30 arc-sec resolution. A total of 33,452 seamounts and 138,412 knolls were...
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Global Seafloor Geomorphic Features - Blue Habitats
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Conservation International, GRID-Arendal and Geoscience Australia recently collaborated to produce a map of the global distribution of seafloor geomorphic features. The global seafloor...