Ortho-rectified Aerial Mosaic of San Francisco Bay Ports from 2015

2015 ortho-rectified mosaic tiles created by the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative. The source imagery was acquired on September 4, 2015, using an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) from an aircraft. The data covers the ports of San Francisco, Oakland, and Richmond in California.

Use Cases

• Coastal infrastructure mapping based on ortho-rectified infrared imagery
• Change detection analysis for port areas based on high-resolution aerial photographs
• Creating base maps for GIS applications based on the rectified mosaic tiles
• Analyzing land cover in coastal urban areas based on the infrared wavelength data

Strengths

• Imagery is ortho-rectified, which corrects for geometric distortions
• Source data was acquired at a higher resolution to support the final mosaic quality
• Specific acquisition date (2015-09-04) and sensor (Applanix DSS) are documented

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to a single-day acquisition in 2015

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Aerial imagery acquired with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) and processed into ortho-rectified mosaics.

Time Range

2015-09-04

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 21:24:56.748557; freshness should be verified

Geography

Ports of San Francisco, Oakland, and Richmond, California, USA