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Increasing Training and Technique Exchange for Siting MPAs in Remote Coral Reef Environments in the Caribbean

出版	2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZIkMNQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Through the NOAA International Coral Reef Conservation Program it was possible to congregate fifteen people associated with the management of remote coral reef environments which have been declared or are in the process of becoming marine protected areas (MPAs). The first training session was held at the Chinchorro Bank field station, Mexico during two weeks in April, 2005. The training focused on: a) how to collect and interpret fine scale remote sensing imagery from side scan sonar systems in order to generate multi-scale habitat mapping on remote coral reef areas; b) the use of existing coarse scale remote sensing imagery from passive sensors (satellite imagery and aerial photographs); c) the combination of technologies and information on several scales required for increase capacity building in GIS techniques and applications; d) habitat concepts based on biological and ecological criteria, incorporating them into MPA management and designation; and e) increase exchange of experience in planning field work at distant oceanic areas looking at international/ national cooperative alternatives by establishing working networks. As a result of this course a benthic map of coral reef habitats (