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

2018 ortho-rectified mosaic tiles created from aerial imagery acquired on October 20, 2018. The data is a product of the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative, sourced from an Applanix Digital Sensor System. The original imagery was acquired at a higher resolution to support the final mosaic.

Use Cases

• Coastal change detection and shoreline mapping based on ortho-rectified near-infrared imagery.
• Land cover classification and vegetation analysis based on near-infrared spectral data.
• Creating base maps for geographic information systems based on ortho-rectified aerial mosaics.

Strengths

• Imagery is ortho-rectified, which corrects for geometric distortions.
• Source data was acquired at a higher resolution to support the final mosaic product.
• Data originates from the authoritative NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative.

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 the primary raster data formats.

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

2018-10-20

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 20:57:15.519551; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Redwood City, California, USA