Post-Storm Coastal Orthophotography of Northern Ireland, 2022

March and September 2022 orthophotography collected via LiDAR surveys commissioned by Fugro along the soft sedimentary north coast of Northern Ireland. The data captures the intertidal area to 10m inland at 0.5m resolution to assess damage and recovery from storms Dudley, Eunice, and Franklin. It was provided by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Quantifying coastal erosion and accretion based on repeat aerial imagery.
• Training models for shoreline detection and feature extraction from high-resolution orthophotos.
• Analyzing post-storm landscape recovery patterns along soft sediment coastlines.
• Comparing geospatial changes against a 2021 baseline LiDAR survey.

Strengths

• High-resolution 0.5m data collection for detailed analysis.
• Directly comparable data from two time points (March and September 2022) for change detection.
• Specific geographic coverage of four named coastal areas in Northern Ireland.

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.
• Data collection was restrictive, requiring specific tidal, weather, and daylight conditions.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Aerial LiDAR and photographic survey commissioned from Fugro.

Time Range

March 2022 and September 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 11:23:18.421687; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Soft sedimentary north coast of Northern Ireland, covering Curran Strand, Portrush East Strand, Portstewart Strand, Downhill Beach to Magilligan, and White Rocks to Magilligan.