Ortho-rectified Aerial Mosaic of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 2011

New Bedford, Massachusetts is covered by ortho-rectified mosaic tiles produced by the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative. The source imagery was acquired on October 5, 2011, using an Applanix Digital Sensor System aircraft. The final mosaic is derived from higher-resolution original images.

Use Cases

• Coastal land cover change analysis based on ortho-rectified infrared imagery.
• Urban planning and infrastructure mapping based on high-resolution aerial photographs.
• Creating base maps for GIS applications based on georeferenced mosaic tiles.
• Assessing coastal features and vegetation based on infrared wavelength data.

Strengths

• Imagery is ortho-rectified, correcting for terrain displacement and sensor tilt.
• Source data has a specific acquisition date of October 5, 2011.
• Original images were 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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Aerial imagery acquired via an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) aircraft.

Time Range

2011-10-05

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 20:49:53.935114; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA