NOAA's Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative produced true color orthorectified mosaic tiles covering the Mississippi River from LaPlace to Venice. The imagery was captured on March 13-15, 2010 using an Applanix Digital Sensor System, with a ground sample distance of 0.35 meters per pixel. These tiles are ancillary products not intended for navigation.
Use Cases
- Analyze land cover changes along the Mississippi River using 0.35-meter resolution true color mosaic tiles.
- Assess coastal erosion or wetland extent by comparing orthorectified image tiles from 2010 with later datasets.
- Validate or benchmark other remote sensing products against these high-resolution DSS sensor images.
- Study riverbank features and infrastructure visible in the orthorectified true color mosaics.
Strengths
- High spatial resolution with a ground sample distance of 0.35 meters per pixel.
- True color imagery captured over three consecutive days in March 2010.
- Product is orthorectified, correcting for terrain displacement and sensor tilt.
Limitations
- Data is from a single three-day period in 2010, offering no temporal series.
- Specific tile count, file formats, and total data size are unknown.
- Product is explicitly not intended for mapping, charting, or navigation, limiting certain applications.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Accession 0075829.
- Collection Method
- Aerial imagery captured with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) and processed into orthorectified mosaic tiles.
- Time Range
- March 13, 2010 to March 15, 2010.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Mississippi River region from LaPlace to Venice, Louisiana, USA.