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

NOAA's National Geodetic Survey produced an ortho-rectified mosaic from aerial imagery captured on November 13, 2016. The data covers the coastal areas of Muskegon, Grand Haven, and Holland in Michigan. It was created under the Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative using an Applanix Digital Sensor System.

Use Cases

• Coastal land cover classification based on near-infrared spectral information.
• Change detection analysis for shoreline monitoring based on ortho-rectified imagery.
• Validation and calibration of satellite imagery based on high-resolution aerial reference data.
• Infrastructure and habitat mapping in coastal zones based on the ortho-rectified mosaic.

Strengths

• Imagery was acquired with a high-resolution Applanix Digital Sensor System.
• Data is ortho-rectified, which corrects for terrain displacement and sensor tilt.
• Source imagery was captured on a single date (2016-11-13), providing a consistent snapshot.

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 may reflect geographic bias inherent to datagov, being limited to three Michigan cities.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2016-11-13

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 13 21:07:28.284850; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Coastal areas of Muskegon, Grand Haven, and Holland, Michigan, USA.