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

2018 NOAA NGS Ortho-rectified Near-Infrared Mosaic of Sacramento, CA is a set of ortho-rectified mosaic tiles produced by the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative. The source imagery was captured 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

• Coastal change detection based on ortho-rectified near-infrared imagery.
• Urban land cover classification using high-resolution aerial photography.
• Shoreline mapping and analysis based on the rectified mosaic tiles.

Strengths

• Imagery is ortho-rectified, which corrects for geometric distortions.
• Source data was acquired at a higher resolution to support the final mosaic.
• Imagery has a specific acquisition date of October 28, 2018.

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.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Aerial imagery acquired with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) from an airplane.

Time Range

2018-10-28

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 13 21:32:25.070589; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sacramento, California, USA