2015 Near-Infrared Orthophoto Mosaic of San Francisco Bay Ports

An ortho-rectified mosaic of the ports of Oakland, Richmond, and San Francisco, California, created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The source imagery was acquired on September 4, 2015, using an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) as part of the Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative. The final product is a corrected, composite image suitable for geospatial analysis.

Use Cases

• Coastal land cover classification based on near-infrared spectral reflectance.
• Infrastructure mapping and change detection for port facilities using ortho-rectified imagery.
• Baseline environmental studies for the San Francisco Bay coastline.
• Validation and enhancement of other geospatial datasets for the specified region.

Strengths

• Imagery is ortho-rectified, correcting for geometric distortions.
• Source data was acquired with a high-resolution Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS).
• Produced by the authoritative National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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 via Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) and processed into an ortho-rectified mosaic.

Time Range

2015-09 - 2015-09

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 22:12:20.487663; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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