Dataset

Tropical Coral Reefs of the World (500-m resolution grid)

Marine EnvironmentsGlobalWorld Resources Institute (WRI), Data Basin

Dataset Objective

To show and visualize the global shallow and tropical coral reefs gridded at 500-m resolution.

Context

Organizations contributing to the data and development of the map include the Institute for Marine Remote Sensing, University of South Florida (IMaRS/USF), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UNEP-WCMC, The World Fish Center, and WRI.

What is included

Data contains the locations and boundaries of Tropical Coral Reefs.

Collection Methods

Data was collected using satellite images before being converted to a 500-m resolution raster grid.