NOAA Ortho-rectified Aerial Mosaic of Charlevoix, Michigan from 2016

2016 NOAA NGS Ortho-rectified Color Mosaic of Charlevoix, Michigan is a set of ortho-rectified mosaic tiles produced under the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative. The source imagery was captured from September 12-15, 2016, using an Applanix Digital Sensor System. The original images were acquired at a higher resolution to support the final ortho-rectified mosaic product.

Use Cases

• Coastal change detection based on ortho-rectified aerial imagery.
• Land cover classification using high-resolution color mosaic data.
• Training object detection models for coastal infrastructure based on aerial photographs.
• Creating base maps for geographic information systems using rectified imagery.

Strengths

• Imagery was acquired at a higher resolution than the final product, suggesting detailed source data.
• Data is ortho-rectified, which corrects for geometric distortions.
• Specific acquisition dates (20160912 - 20160915) are provided.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Aerial imagery captured with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS).

Time Range

2016-09-12 to 2016-09-15

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 21:39:56.567945; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Charlevoix, Michigan, North America