Hurricane Sandy Coastal Impact Aerial Mosaic at 0.35m Resolution

2014 ortho-rectified aerial imagery mosaics created for NOAA's Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative. The source imagery was acquired from January to April 2014 using Intergraph/Leica DMC Sensor Systems over areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The final mosaic tiles have a ground sampling distance of 0.35 meters.

Use Cases

• Assessing coastal erosion and damage based on high-resolution aerial imagery.
• Creating baseline maps for coastal management based on ortho-rectified mosaics.
• Training computer vision models for change detection based on pre- and post-event imagery.
• Supporting habitat mapping and land cover classification based on infrared wavelength data.

Strengths

• High-resolution imagery with a ground sampling distance of 0.35 meters.
• Source imagery acquired with specialized Intergraph/Leica DMC Sensor Systems.
• Covers a defined temporal range from 2014-01-01 to 2014-04 21.
• Data is ortho-rectified, which reduces geometric distortion.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Available file formats are PDF and HTML, which may not be the primary data formats.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Aerial imagery acquired with sensor systems and processed into ortho-rectified mosaics.

Time Range

2014-01-01 to 2014-04-21

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 22:14:09.834879; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Hurricane Sandy coastal impacted areas, including New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware