A March 2022 natural colour orthophotography dataset captured by Fugro following storm events Dudley, Eunice, and Franklin. The survey covers soft sedimentary areas along the north coast of Northern Ireland, including Curran Strand, Portrush East Strand, Portstewart Strand, and Downhill Beach to Magilligan. It was commissioned to ascertain coastal change since a 2021 baseline survey and provided in a format consistent with a 3-Dimensional Coastal Survey for comparison.
Use Cases
- Assess coastal erosion and storm damage based on high-resolution aerial imagery.
- Monitor changes in soft sediment coastlines by comparing with a 2021 baseline survey.
- Support coastal management and planning decisions for specific beaches mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Data is temporally specific, captured in March 2022 following a series of named storm events.
- Spatial coverage is explicitly defined for four specific coastal areas in Northern Ireland.
- Data format is consistent with a prior 2021 survey, enabling direct change detection.
Limitations
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific surveyed coastlines.
Provenance
- Source
- OpenDataNI
- Collection Method
- Post-storm LiDAR and orthophotography survey commissioned to Fugro.
- Time Range
- March 2022
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-18 11:23:56.639283; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- North coast of Northern Ireland (Curran Strand, Portrush East Strand, Portstewart Strand, Downhill Beach to Magilligan)