- Industria: Government
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A post-processing tool-set which has been developed to visualize, handle, and enhance images, videos and data recorded during IFREMER underwater vehicle dives.
Industry:Natural environment
A probability distribution of random occurrences in which one occurrence has no influence on any other occurrence. The variance of a poisson distribution is equal to its mean and therefore the standard deviation is equal to the square root of the mean of the distribution.
Industry:Natural environment
A program in the Microsoft Office suite which allows users to create presentations and handouts. By creating powerpoint "slides," users can add color, images, sounds, and movies to their text presentations.
Industry:Natural environment
A program that was established in order to provide a standardized method of characterizing the conditions of reef corals. It can and has been used by both researchers and non-scientists to document observations of reefs at specific points in time, which can be followed up in subsequent observations to assess changes in the state of individual coral colonies, selected coral species, or a reef as a whole.
Industry:Natural environment
A programming language created by Sun Microsystems which allows the user to create programs which run well in a networked environment (such as the World Wide Web). Java programs are commonly called "applets" and can be used to add anything from calculators to animated images to web sites.
Industry:Natural environment
A protein sequence database of classified and functionally annotated protein sequences that grew out of the Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure (1965-1978) .
Industry:Natural environment
A provision of the Clean Water Act (CWA) which prohibits discharge of pollutants into waters of the United States unless a special permit is issued by EPA, a state, or where delegated, a tribal government on an Indian reservation.
Industry:Natural environment
A reef formed by Lophelia pertusa, a deep-sea coral found in all oceans except the Arctic Ocean.
Industry:Natural environment
A region situated between the Mariana Trench in the west and the Line Islands in the east. The name "Micronesia" means "tiny islands." the Federated States of Micronesia consists of the states of Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae. This region is composed of thousands of small islands, mostly atolls.
Industry:Natural environment
A regional coral reef, seagrass and mangrove monitoring program and network involving a number of Caribbean laboratories, parks and reserves to study land-sea interaction processes in the wider Caribbean region. Twenty-seven institutions in 17 countries participate in CARICOMP.
Industry:Natural environment
