CaribbeanSeaMap 2025 Broad-Scale Predictive Habitat Map - Confidence in Classification of Seabed Substrate Type (Habitat Descriptor)

Confidence in the classification of substrate type in the 2025 CaribbeanSeaMap broad-scale predictive habitat map, this was updated in the 2025 version.

Values are on a range from 1 to 3 (1=low confidence, 2=medium confidence, 3=high confidence).

Substrate type is one of the layers of information used to categorise physical habitat types in CaribbeanSeaMap ; these layers of information are collectively known as 'habitat descriptors'. The substrate layer confidence was obtained from reclassification and standardisation of the confidence scores associated with each primary layer used to create the Substrate types layer.

A report on the methods used in the 2025 version of the CaribbeanSeaMap will be published in due course and the report on previous version (v2023) is linked in lineage.

Credit: Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 from the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Seabed Habitats initiative (https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/seabed-habitats), funded by the European Commission.