Ortho-rectified Aerial Mosaic of Waukegan, Illinois from 2018

A 2018 ortho-rectified color mosaic of Waukegan, Illinois, created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The source imagery was acquired on May 11, 2018, using a Trimble Digital Sensor System from an airplane. The data is part of the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative.

Use Cases

• Coastal change detection based on ortho-rectified shoreline imagery.
• Urban land use classification from high-resolution aerial photographs.
• Creating base maps for geographic information systems using rectified image mosaics.
• Training object detection models for features visible in aerial photography.

Strengths

• Imagery is ortho-rectified, which likely corrects for geometric distortions.
• Source data was acquired at a higher resolution to support the final mosaic product.
• Produced by the authoritative National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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.
• Available file formats are PDF and HTML, which may not be optimal for direct machine learning use.

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

2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 21:58:02.786167; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Waukegan, Illinois, North America