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… Map of the protected areas for Tonga with country-level summary statistics on the amount of …
… Map of the protected areas for the Niuas Group, Tonga with country-level summary statistics on the amount of …
… Map of the protected areas for the Tongatapu Group, Tonga with country-level summary statistics on the amount of …
… Map of the protected areas for the Vava'u Group, Tonga with country-level summary statistics on the amount of …
… Map of the protected areas for the Ha'apai Group, Tonga with country-level summary statistics on the amount of …

The Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS) at the University of South Florida (USF) was funded by the Oceanography Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide an exhaustive worldwide inventory of coral reefs using high-resolution satellite imagery. By using a consistent dataset of high-resolution (30 meter) multispectral Landsat 7 images acquired between 1999 and 2002, USF characterized, mapped and estimated the extent of shallow coral reef ecosystems in the main coral reef provinces (Caribbean-Atlantic, Pacific, Indo-Pacific, Red Sea).

… and associated ecosystem services. Effective management of Tonga’s marine ecosystems therefore depends on accurate and … decisions. Although the near-shore marine ecosystem of Tonga is extensive, the resources available for its … we provide a marine socio-environmental dataset covering Tonga’s near-shore marine ecosystem as compiled from various …