The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Deep-Sea Research Technology Program has been collecting coral and sponge location data since 2007. To enhance their database, they would like to add raster values such as slope and shaded relief to the individual points. The DSRT want this analysis to be user-friendly and incorporated into an ArcGIS Learn Lesson for users to be able to complete on their own. The maps created for this project are created with NOAA data and geoprocessing tools in ArcGIS Pro to perform raster analysis on a Southern California CRM File.
All coral and sponge locations were extracted from an excel file that showed latitude and longitude values, data of collection, and species type. ArcGIS Pro geoprocessing tools can input the CRM file into a raster layer. This layer is then used for raster analysis and inputting into the coral and sponge point layer. An ArcGIS Learn Lesson will help users understand how to perform and visualize raster analyses and enhance the NOAA Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge database with the values that come from the analysis.