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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The collection of information about an object or event without being in physical contact with the object or event. Remote sensing is restricted to methods that record the electromagnetic radiation reflected or radiated from an object, which excludes magnetic and gravity surveys that record force fields.
Industry:Natural environment
The most anterior of three coelomic spaces that appear during larval development of echinoderms.
Industry:Natural environment
The smallest unit of information that a computer can store and process. A bit has two possible values, 0 or 1, which can be interpreted as yes/no, true/false, or on/off.
Industry:Natural environment
A body shape which is flattened laterally, bringing the right and left sides closer together, e.g., a butterfly fish or a flounder.
Industry:Natural environment
A diverticulum of the rectum of most cephalopods, where an 'inky" melanin solution is stored. The ink is ejected from a duct opening at the base of the siphon. It serves to cloud the water, and enable these animals to escape from predators.
Industry:Natural environment
A line on a map or chart that connects all points having the same depth below a water surface.
Industry:Natural environment
A planktonic larva that gains its nutrition from yolk (semi-crystalline phospholipoprotein granules). In most bony fishes, yolk is supplied by the yolk sac, a bag-like ventral extension of the gut containing yolk granules.
Industry:Natural environment
A solid structure built at an angle from a shore prevent erosion from currents, tides and waves, or to trap sand.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of motility of a cell in which cytoplasmic streaming (directional flow of cytoplasm) extrudes outward of the cell to form pseudopodia (false feet) so that the cell can change its location.
Industry:Natural environment
