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The annual SAV aerial photographic monitoring program provides a comprehensive and accurate measure of change in SAV relative abundance that has been used to link improving water quality to increases in bay living resources. This layer shows the Maryland location of the SAV foot print over a 5 year period (2015 - 2019) combined with Maryland County Boundary information. |
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The annual SAV aerial photographic monitoring program provides a comprehensive and accurate measure of change in SAV relative abundance that has been used to link improving water quality to increases in bay living resources. This layer shows the Maryland location of the SAV foot print over a 5 year period (2015 - 2019) combined with Maryland County Boundary information. |
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SAV Ecology, Monitoring, & Restoration Program, Virginia Institute of Marine Science |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The 2019 Chesapeake Bay SAV Coverage was mapped from digital multispectral imagery with a 25cm GSD to assess water quality in the Bay. WorldView 2 satellite imagery acquired from Digital Globe through the NGA NextView program was used to augment the aerial imagery for the Belmont Bay portion of the Potomac River. Each area of SAV was interpreted from the rectified imagry and classified into one of four density classes by the percentage of cover. The SAV beds were entered into an SDE GIS fetaure class using the quality control procedures documented below. The dataset contains all SAV areas that were identified from the areas flown. Some areas that are presumed to contain no SAV were not flown. Some small beds, particularly along narrow tributaries may not have been distinguishable on the aerial photography.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>This layer combines SAV presence from 2015 through 2019 with Maryland County boundaries to create a five-year SAV Habitat layer.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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["vegetative surface cover","DE","submerged aquatic vegetation","MD","SAV","US","Chesapeake Bay","Chincoteague Bay","51","10","24"] |
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