2011 NOAA Near-Infrared Aerial Mosaic of New Jersey's Delaware Bay Shoreline

New Jersey's Delaware Bay shoreline is covered by ortho-rectified near-infrared aerial imagery. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) created this mosaic from imagery captured between April 21 and June 8, 2011, using an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS). The final product is derived from higher-resolution source images.

Use Cases

• Coastal change detection based on near-infrared ortho-rectified imagery.
• Land cover classification using the infrared wavelength data.
• Baseline mapping for environmental studies based on the 2011 aerial survey.
• Shoreline delineation and analysis from the orthophoto mosaic.

Strengths

• Imagery is ortho-rectified, which corrects for terrain displacement and sensor tilt.
• Source data has a specific acquisition period from 20110421 to 20110608.
• Original imagery was acquired at a higher resolution than the final mosaic.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Aerial imagery acquired with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) and processed through the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) initiative.

Time Range

2011-04 21 to 2011-06-08

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 21:27:19.276219; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New Jersey: Delaware Bay - New Jersey Shoreline