GENERATING BIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT ENVIRONMENTAL

DATA FROM REMOTE SENSING IMAGERIES AND

OCEANOGRAPHIC MODELS TO SUPPORT SPATIAL
PRIORITIZATION OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
AND MANAGEMENT IN INDONESIA
Safran Yusri1, Vincentius P. Siregar2, Suharsono3
1Yayasan TERANGI
2Fakultas Perikanan dan Ilmu Kelautan, Institut Pertanian Bogor
3Pusat Penelitian Oseanografi, Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia

safran.yusri@terangi.or.id
 Background
• Both ecosystem managers and modelers
require environmental data that influenced
the distribution of a species.
• During the zonation process, spatial
prioritization requires input of environmental
variables (habitat)
• Data are abundant but downloading and
analysis difficult
 Cloud computing
• The rise of cloud computing boosted the
availability of environmental data and provide the
computing power needed for large scale analysis
of such data.
• Google Earth Engine (GEE)
• Objective: to generate biologically relevant
environmental variables to support to support
spatial prioritization of marine biodiversity
conservation and management in Indonesia using
GEE
Methodology
Results
 GEBCO -
Bathymet
ry
MODIS AQUA
Chlorophyll A
Concentration
Modis Aqua Normalized
Fluorescence Line
Height
MODIS AQUA Particulate
Organic Carbon
HYCOM Salinity
HYCOM Scalar Water Speed
MODIS AQUA Sea
Surface
Temperature
HYCOM Sea
Surface
Elevation
HYCOM Eastward
Water Velocity
 Discussion
• One of the most used of environmental
variables is determining the probability of a
species or a group of organism presences in a
particular area.
• some areas in Indonesia with sea surface
temperature higher the limit and up to 38°C.
These area are more susceptible to coral
bleaching
• Results shows that offshore reefs in Seribu
Island tend to experience higher water speed
and sea surface elevation.
• These two variables are representing water
energy.
• Franklin et al. (2013) also found that location
high coral cover sites tend to have low water
energy characteristic.
 Conclusion
• This script can ingest long term earth
observation and oceanographic model in
order to develop biologically meaningful
environmental variables on marine
environment.
• The data generated from this script can be
used directly in spatial prioritization or
inderctly from species distribution models and
other biodiversity research