NOAA Ortho-rectified 4-Band Aerial Mosaic of Pensacola, Florida from 2023

Pensacola, Florida is covered by ortho-rectified mosaic tiles created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The data contains 8-bit RGB and near-infrared (NIR) band stacked mosaics with an alpha channel, produced from the Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative. Source imagery was acquired from October 8 to October 17, 2023 using an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) mounted on an airplane.

Use Cases

• Classifying coastal landforms and beaches based on the 4-band (RGB+NIR) spectral information.
• Monitoring shoreline changes over time based on high-resolution ortho-rectified imagery.
• Developing training data for land cover segmentation models based on the aerial photography.
• Analyzing geomorphic processes based on the detailed, geographically corrected image tiles.

Strengths

• Imagery is ortho-rectified, which corrects for geometric distortions.
• Contains four spectral bands (RGB and NIR) plus an alpha channel for analysis.
• Source imagery was acquired over a defined 10-day period in October 2023.
• 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 and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary file format listed is PDF, which may not be the standard format for raw image data.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Aerial imagery acquired via an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) mounted on an airplane, processed into ortho-rectified mosaics.

Time Range

2023-10 08 to 2023-10-17

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 21:28:49.731619; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Pensacola, Florida, United States, North America