Orthorectified Coastal Mosaic Tiles for Intracoastal City, Louisiana

NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative provides orthorectified mosaic image tiles for Intracoastal City, Louisiana. The data consists of aerial imagery acquired by an Applanix Digital Sensor System on March 15, 2011. These tiles are ancillary products from NOAA's Coastal Mapping Program, designed to support multiple uses of coastal data.

Use Cases

• Analyzing coastal land cover change using the 0.50-meter ground sample distance (GSD) imagery from 2011.
• Training object detection models for marine infrastructure using orthorectified mosaic tiles to minimize geometric distortion.
• Validating shoreline extraction algorithms against the geometrically corrected orthorectified mosaic product.
• Conducting habitat classification for wetlands by leveraging the consistent spatial reference of the ortho-rectified tiles.

Strengths

• Imagery has a high spatial resolution with a ground sample distance of 0.50 meters per pixel.
• Data is orthorectified, providing a consistent geometric correction for accurate spatial analysis.

Limitations

• Dataset is from a single acquisition date (2011-03-15), offering no temporal series for change detection.
• Specific spatial extent (beyond Intracoastal City, LA) and tile count are unknown, limiting assessment of coverage.

Provenance

Source

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), via the Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) initiative.

Collection Method

Aerial imagery acquired with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) and processed into orthorectified mosaic tiles.

Time Range

2011-03-15

Freshness

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Geography

Intracoastal City, Louisiana, USA.