NOAA Ortho-rectified Near-Infrared Aerial Mosaic of Monroe, Michigan, 2016

Ortho-rectified mosaic tiles were created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as part of the Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative. The source imagery was acquired on November 12, 2016, using an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) from an aircraft. The final product is a rectified, composite image covering the Monroe, Michigan area.

Use Cases

• Land cover classification based on near-infrared spectral information.
• Coastal zone change detection using ortho-rectified aerial imagery.
• Geographic feature extraction from high-resolution, rectified mosaic tiles.

Strengths

• Imagery is ortho-rectified, correcting for geometric distortions.
• Source data was acquired at a higher resolution to support the final mosaic.
• Data has a specific acquisition date of November 12, 2016.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2016-11-12

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 22:10:25.428990; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Monroe, Michigan, North America