NOAA Coastal Orthoimagery Mosaics for Buzzards Bay, 2009

Ortho-rectified true color (RGB) mosaic tiles of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, created from aerial imagery acquired between August 10 and October 21, 2009. The dataset was produced by NOAA's Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative and contains GeoTIFF images with a ground sample distance of 0.50 meters per pixel. Associated metadata and browse images are provided in FGDC, ASCII, HTML, and JPG formats.

Use Cases

• Coastal change detection and shoreline mapping using georeferenced RGB image tiles.
• Land cover classification and habitat analysis based on true color pixel values.
• Validation and ground-truthing for other remote sensing datasets via ortho-rectified imagery.
• Creation of base maps for regional planning and environmental assessments.

Strengths

• High spatial resolution with a ground sample distance of 0.50 meters per pixel.
• Imagery is ortho-rectified, correcting for sensor tilt and terrain relief for accurate geolocation.
• Temporal coverage is precisely defined from August 10 to October 21, 2009.

Limitations

• Exact dataset size, row count, and specific column names are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the 'last updated' date, reporting both 2009-10-21 and 2026-03-05.

Provenance

Source

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), via the Coastal Mapping Program.

Collection Method

Aerial imagery acquired with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) and processed into ortho-rectified mosaics.

Time Range

2009-08-10 to 2009-10-21

Freshness

2026-03-05 23:25:53.414356

Geography

Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, USA