NOAA Coastal Orthoimagery of Louisiana Shoreline and Mississippi River 2010

March 2010 ortho-rectified mosaic tiles provide true color imagery of the Mississippi River and Louisiana shoreline. The dataset was created by NOAA's Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative using an Applanix Digital Sensor System. It covers areas from Baton Rouge to LaPlace, the Louisiana shoreline, Lake Charles, and LaPlace to Venice.

Use Cases

• Coastal change analysis using true color RGB imagery of barrier islands.
• Support for nautical chart creation with digital shoreline data.
• Environmental monitoring of the Mississippi River delta region.
• Validation of land cover classification models with 0.5-meter ground sample distance imagery.

Strengths

• Imagery has a high spatial resolution with a 0.5-meter ground sample distance.
• Covers a specific, documented time period with source imagery acquired on March 13-15, 2010.
• Produced by a authoritative organization, NOAA, through its Coastal Mapping Program.

Limitations

• No column names, row counts, or dataset size information is provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date, listing both 2010-03-15 and 2026 03-05.
• Explicitly not intended for mapping, charting, or navigation purposes.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Acquired via an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS) and processed into ortho-rectified mosaic tiles.

Time Range

March 13-15, 2010

Freshness

2026-03 05 22:42:23.977390

Geography

Mississippi River (Baton Rouge to LaPlace), Louisiana shoreline (Barrier Islands of Terrebonne and Timbalier Bays), Lake Charles area, and LaPlace to Venice.