NOAA Ortho-rectified Near-Infrared Mosaic of Two Harbors, Minnesota, 2015

NOAA's Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative produced this ortho-rectified mosaic using imagery from an Applanix Digital Sensor System. The source data was captured on September 29, 2015, focusing on the port of Two Harbors, Minnesota. This dataset provides a geometrically corrected, composite aerial view in the near-infrared spectrum.

Use Cases

• Coastal infrastructure change detection based on ortho-rectified near-infrared imagery.
• Land cover classification for port areas based on spectral information in the near-infrared band.
• Creating base maps for coastal planning based on geometrically corrected aerial mosaics.
• Monitoring vegetation health near water bodies based on near-infrared reflectance data.

Strengths

• Ortho-rectified for geometric accuracy, removing distortions.
• Imagery captured in the near-infrared spectrum, useful for vegetation analysis.
• Produced by NOAA's Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) initiative, a authoritative source.

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.
• Data is from a single day in 2015, limiting temporal analysis.

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 an ortho-rectified mosaic.

Time Range

2015-09-29

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 22:10:56.257268; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Port of Two Harbors, Minnesota, USA