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Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific

Atlas of Southeast Papua New Guinea Coral Reefs

atlas Authors:

Serge Andréfouët
Céline Chauvin
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Centre de Nouméa, Unité de Recherche CoRéUS (UR128)

Christine J. Kranenburg
Frank E. Muller-Karger
Institute for Marine Remote Sensing, University of South Florida, USA

Marco Noordeloos
The WorldFish Center, Reefbase Project, Penang, Malaysia

Table of Contents
Full Report PDF File
(17866 KB)
Full Report with no cover page PDF File
(10586 KB)
Context

LANDSAT imagery

A global coral reef typology

    The different levels of classification
    The main types of reef complexes (Levels 1, 2 and 3)

      Island reef complexes
      Barrier reef complexes
      Fringing reef complexes
      Patch reef complexes

The reefs Southeast Papua New Guinea

    Synthesis of computed surface areas and remarkable features
    Detail for each geomorphological unit (Levels 2, 4 and 5)

Maps specification

Bibliography

PDF File
(799 KB)

List of maps

    Index (zones 1 - 9)
    1 - Louisade East
    2 - Louisade West
    3 - Milne Bay
    4 - Papuan Barrier Reef
    5 - D'entrecasteaux Island
    6 - Muyua Island - Budibudi Atoll
    7 - Marshal-Bennet Island - Egum Atoll
    8 - Troriand Island
    9 - Lusancay Island - Collingwood Bay
PDF File
(9687 KB)
Appendices

    Table 1 : List of Southeast Papua New Guinea geomorphological units and their surface areas
    Table 2: Reefbase attributes and surface for each Southeast Papua New Guinea geomorphological unit
PDF File
(70 KB)

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