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Inshore Fisheries Habitat Project

A long-term (1985 to 1996) AVHRR turbidity/reflectance time series is currently being processed for the northern Gulf of Mexico region. The study area will encompass the coastal region from Galveston, Texas to Point St. George, Florida, including Atchafalaya Bay, the Mississippi Delta outflow region, Mobile Bay and Apalachicola River. The offshore region will extend to the 500 meter isobath. The turbidity image data set will be co-registered with a resolution of 1.3 kilometers and available in a GEOTIFF format with an Albers Equal Area projection. Coincident sea surface temperature imagery will also be available.

The purpose of this turbidity time series is to monitor and document the interannual, seasonal, and event-specific changes in water clarity in these regions that potentially have important consequences for fish habitat suitability and overall ecosystem health. The turbidity images may have additional utility as inputs to regional hydrographic circulation models.

Near-real time reflectance image for the Mississippi Delta region. Images from other locations and dates are available from the Coastal Remote Sensing (CRS) program at www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/composite/0day .

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