NOAA Ortho-rectified Aerial Mosaic of Louisiana Coast, January 2018

Ortho-rectified mosaic tiles were created from aerial imagery acquired by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in January 2018. The source imagery was captured using an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) over the Port of Plaquemine and Empire-Venice areas in Louisiana. This data is a product of the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) initiative.

Use Cases

• Coastal land-use classification based on ortho-rectified near-infrared imagery.
• Shoreline change analysis based on high-resolution aerial photographs.
• Infrastructure mapping for ports and industrial areas based on the orthophoto mosaic.
• Training computer vision models for feature detection in aerial imagery.

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 range from January 18-19, 2018.
• Produced by the authoritative NOAA National Ocean Service and National Geodetic Survey.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific Louisiana coastal areas covered.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

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 mosaics.

Time Range

2018-01 18 to 2018-01-19

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 21:50:25.398203; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Port of Plaquemine and Empire-Venice, Louisiana, USA