CARIBCOAST: Coastal ecosystems distribution and Ecosystem Based Coastal Vulnerability Index (EBCVI) in the Caribbean

The dataset is composed of raster (mangrove, seagrass and coral distribution - geotiff format) and vector (caostal vulnerability index CVI - shapefile format) layers for the six areas of interest of the project (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidand and Tobago), including style files in qml format. For each area, files corresponding to selected pilot sites are available. The distribution maps of coastal ecosystems (mangrove, seagrass and coral) have been produced using Sentinel 2, Pleiades and Planetscope satellites images (provided by the ESA Copernicus program, the Dataterra DINAMIS platform and Planets) and a random forest supervised classification approach (carried out by La Telescop). The production of the EBCVI to erosion is based on the distribution maps of the ecosystems which were used to calculate a number of landscape metrics, that were combined to produce the EBCVI. Associated ressources provide different documents (in French and English) with more details on the methodology and some technical reports.

More details :

https://www.carib-coast.com/en/

Balouin, Y., de la Torre, Y., Pedreros, R., Filippini, A. G., Laigre, T., Videau, N., ... & Jack, C. (2023). Carib-coast project: Caribbean network for prevention of coastal risks related to climate change. The Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2023 In 5 Volumes, https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811275135_0116.

Date (Creation): 2025-06-11

Date (Publication): 2026-01-21

Citation identifier: EBCVI_caribbean

Code: 10.23708/33f2115e-3162-4848-83d2-ba56f1002f5f

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
UMR ESPACE-DEV - IRD, Univ.Montpellier, Univ.La Réunion, Univ.Guyane, Univ.Antilles, Univ. Nouvelle Calédonie, Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia - France	Catry, Thibault	thibault.catry@ird.fr	Author
UMR ESPACE-DEV - IRD, Univ.Montpellier, Univ.La Réunion, Univ.Guyane, Univ.Antilles, Univ. Nouvelle Calédonie, Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia - France	Catry, Thibault	thibault.catry@ird.fr	Point of contact
UMR ESPACE-DEV - IRD, Univ.Montpellier, Univ.La Réunion, Univ.Guyane, Univ.Antilles, Univ. Nouvelle Calédonie, Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia - France	Teillet, Claire	claire.teillet@ird.fr	Author
UMR SENS - CIRAD, IRD, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 - France	Pottier, Aurea	aurea.pottier@ird.fr	Author
UMR ESPACE-DEV - IRD, Univ.Montpellier, Univ.La Réunion, Univ.Guyane, Univ.Antilles, Univ. Nouvelle Calédonie, Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia - France	Poillerat, Nathan	nathan.poillerat@ird.fr	Author
La TeleScop - France	Nguyen, Bastien	bastien.nguyen@latelescop.fr	Author
La TeleScop - France	Dupaquier, Claire	claire.dupaquier@latelescop.fr	Author

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Keywords

Coastal ecosystems
coastal vulnerability
erosion
satellite imagery
Caribbean

Use limitation: This work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.fr).

Other constraints: Any use of this data is subject to citation as indicated opposite:

"Catry, Thibault; Teillet, Claire; Pottier, Aurea; Poillerat, Nathan; Nguyen, Bastien; Dupaquier, Claire (2026) “CARIBCOAST: Coastal ecosystems distribution and Ecosystem Based Coastal Vulnerability Index (EBCVI) in the Caribbean.” DataSuds-geo. doi: 10.23708/33F2115E-3162-4848-83D2-BA56F1002F5F"

Language: Français

Topic category

Environment

Reference system identifier: WGS84 - EPSG:4326

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
DataSuds-geo		data@ird.fr	Publisher

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OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
FILE:VECTOR		French Guiana - Brazil cross-border area at municipality level
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.carib-coast.com/en/	Website of the CARIBCOAST project
WWW:DOWNLOAD	https://datasuds-geo.ird.fr/geonetwork/umr_espace_dev/api/records/33f2115e-3162-4848-83d2-ba56f1002f5f/attachments/fiche_caribcoast.pdf	fiche_caribcoast.pdf
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811275135_0116	Y. Balouin, Y. de la Torre, R. Pedreros, A.G. Filippini, T. Laigre, et al.. CARIB-COAST - CARIBBEAN NETWORK FOR COASTAL RISKS RELATED WITH CLIMATE CHANGE. Coastal Sediments 2023, Apr 2023, nouvelle orleans, United States. pp.1247-1261
WWW:DOWNLOAD	https://datasuds-geo.ird.fr/geonetwork/umr_espace_dev/api/records/33f2115e-3162-4848-83d2-ba56f1002f5f/attachments/mangrove_style.sld	SLD file style (mangrove)
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WWW:DOWNLOAD	https://datasuds-geo.ird.fr/geonetwork/umr_espace_dev/api/records/33f2115e-3162-4848-83d2-ba56f1002f5f/attachments/coral_style.sld	SLD file style (coral)
WWW:DOWNLOAD	https://datasuds-geo.ird.fr/geonetwork/umr_espace_dev/api/records/33f2115e-3162-4848-83d2-ba56f1002f5f/attachments/CVI_style.sld	SLD file style (CVI)

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
DOI	https://doi.org/10.23708/33f2115e-3162-4848-83d2-ba56f1002f5f	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-05-03

Explanation: Non évalué

Statement: The vector data was built using the landscape metrics package in R. The data was built with Python, R and QGIS (OTB library) softwares.

Claire Teillet, Aurea Pottier, Nathan Poillerat and Thibault Catry contributed for UMR Espace-Dev, Bastien Nguyen and Claire Dupaquier contributed for La Telescop.

Included with dataset: No

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Metadata

File identifier: 33f2115e-3162-4848-83d2-ba56f1002f5f XML

Metadata language: Français

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-01-23T16:56:58.692978Z

Metadata standard name: ISO19115

Metadata standard version: 2010.04

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
UMR ESPACE-DEV - IRD, Univ.Montpellier, Univ.La Réunion, Univ.Guyane, Univ.Antilles, Univ. Nouvelle Calédonie, Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia - France	Catry, Thibault	thibault.catry@ird.fr	Author

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