NOAA Coastal Orthorectified Imagery for Port of Mobile

This dataset consists of true color orthorectified mosaic image tiles covering the Port of Mobile, Alabama. It was created by NOAA's Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping initiative using aerial imagery captured by an Applanix Digital Sensor System on February 17, 2011. The final product provides high-resolution geospatial data in GeoTIFF format with associated metadata.

Use Cases

• Coastal change analysis using georeferenced true-color imagery.
• Port infrastructure inventory and planning based on detailed orthophotos.
• Habitat mapping in coastal zones leveraging the 0.50-meter ground sample distance.
• Validation of other remote sensing datasets using the orthorectified mosaic tiles.

Strengths

• High spatial resolution with a ground sample distance of 0.50 meters per pixel.
• Includes Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata for standardized use.
• Orthorectification process corrects for geometric distortions, improving positional accuracy.

Limitations

• Source imagery is from a single day (February 17, 2011), limiting temporal analysis.
• Conflicting last updated dates (2011-02-17 vs. 2026-03-05) create uncertainty about metadata freshness.
• Specific column names, row counts, and dataset size are unknown.

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 orthorectified mosaics.

Time Range

2011-02-17

Freshness

2026-03-05 22:36:39.783875

Geography

Port of Mobile, Alabama, USA.