NOAA Ortho-rectified Aerial Mosaic of Sacramento, CA from 2018

2018 NOAA NGS Ortho-rectified Color Mosaic of Sacramento, CA contains ortho-rectified mosaic tiles produced under the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative. The source imagery was acquired on October 28, 2018, using an Applanix Digital Sensor System from an airplane. The data is provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce.

Use Cases

• Conducting land use and land cover change analysis based on high-resolution aerial imagery.
• Training computer vision models for object detection in urban environments based on ortho-rectified images.
• Creating base maps for GIS applications based on the rectified mosaic tiles.
• Monitoring shoreline and coastal features based on imagery from the IOCM initiative.

Strengths

• Imagery is ortho-rectified, which corrects for geometric distortions.
• Source data was acquired at a higher resolution to support the final mosaic.
• Specific acquisition date (2018-10 28) is documented.

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 bias inherent to the single location and date.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Aerial imagery acquired with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) and processed into ortho-rectified mosaic tiles.

Time Range

2018-10-28

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 22:00:57.466106; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sacramento, California, USA