APA Digital Coast Needs Assessment Survey

Needs: Data

Caribbean Sea Region

TABLE 11b.

a. Responses to Question #13 (What other data needs do you have to best support your planning practice/ analysis/research?) are provided in the Raw Survey Response Matrix.

Table 11b lists 21 data sets for which Caribbean coastal region respondents were asked to identify needs to support planning practice, analysis, and research.

The three data sets with the highest percentage of respondents indicating they had no need are:

1. Navigational (33%);
2. Wages/Earnings by Business Sector (27%); and
3. Water Quality (27%).

The four data sets with the highest percentage of respondents indicating they needed current data are:

1. Marine Jurisdictional Boundaries (80%);
2. Archaeological/Cultural Resources (67%);
3. Bathymetric Elevation (67%); and
4. Benthic Environmental Data (67%).

The three data sets with the highest percentage of respondents indicating they needed time-series data are:

1. Land Cover and Land Cover Change (47%);
2. Land Use (40%); and
3. Water Quality (40%).

The three data sets with the highest percentage of respondents indicating they needed data projections are:

1. Relative Sea Level Rise (53%);
2. Shoreline Erosion (47%); and
3. Risk Management Data (40%).