NOAA Ortho-rectified Aerial Mosaic of Redwood City, CA from 2018

Redwood City, California is covered by ortho-rectified mosaic tiles created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The imagery was acquired on October 20, 2018, using an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) from an airplane. This dataset is a product of the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) initiative.

Use Cases

• Coastal change analysis based on ortho-rectified shoreline imagery
• Urban planning and land use mapping based on high-resolution aerial photographs
• Creating base maps for GIS applications based on the rectified image mosaic
• Validating other remote sensing data based on the orthophoto reference

Strengths

• Imagery was acquired on a specific date: 20181020.
• Source data was captured at a higher resolution to support the final mosaic.
• Produced by the authoritative National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to a single aerial survey.

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

2018-10-20

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 21:58:40.656860; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Redwood City, California, USA