Ortho-Rectified Aerial Mosaic of Everett, Washington from 2017

NOAA's Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative produced this ortho-rectified mosaic from aerial imagery captured on July 29, 2017. The source data was acquired with a Trimble Digital Sensor System (DSS) at a higher resolution to support the final product. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the authoritative organization for this dataset.

Use Cases

• Coastal change analysis based on ortho-rectified near-infrared imagery
• Land-use and land-cover classification based on aerial mosaic tiles
• Shoreline delineation and mapping based on high-resolution coastal imagery
• Validation of other remote sensing products based on rectified aerial photographs

Strengths

• Imagery was acquired on a single, known date (2017-07-29).
• Source data was captured at a higher resolution than the final mosaic, suggesting detailed source material.
• Produced by the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) initiative, a federal program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 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 acquired with a Trimble Digital Sensor System (DSS) and processed into an ortho-rectified mosaic.

Time Range

2017-07-29

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 21:24:09.969672; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Everett, Washington, United States, North America