NOAA Ortho-rectified Aerial Mosaic of Fall River, Massachusetts from 2018

NOAA's Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative produced this ortho-rectified color mosaic. The source imagery was captured on May 5, 2018, using a Trimble Digital Sensor System (DSS) from an airplane. This dataset provides a geometrically corrected aerial view of the Fall River, Massachusetts shoreline.

Use Cases

• Coastal change analysis based on the ortho-rectified shoreline imagery
• Land use and land cover classification based on the high-resolution aerial mosaic
• Creating or updating base maps for GIS applications based on the rectified image
• Assessing infrastructure and development near the coastline based on the aerial photographs

Strengths

• Imagery is ortho-rectified, providing geometric accuracy for measurement
• Source data was acquired with a Trimble DSS on a specific date (20180505)
• Produced by NOAA's National Ocean Service and National Geodetic Survey

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Available file formats are PDF and HTML, which may not be standard for direct geospatial analysis

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Aerial photography from an airplane using a Trimble Digital Sensor System (DSS), processed into an ortho-rectified mosaic.

Time Range

Imagery acquired on 2018-05 -05.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 21:42:58.406211; freshness should be verified

Geography

Fall River, Massachusetts, North America.