An orthophoto mosaic of the Westerschelde estuary created from stereo aerial images captured on June 17, 2015. The dataset was commissioned by Rijkswaterstaat Water, Traffic and the Environment to support a geomorphology monitoring programme. It is published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a CC0-1.0 license.
Use Cases
- Monitor coastal erosion and sedimentation patterns based on the high-resolution aerial imagery.
- Analyze land cover and habitat changes in the estuary for environmental management.
- Support geomorphological modeling and validation using the orthorectified image base.
- Create baseline maps for infrastructure and water management planning in the region.
Strengths
- Provides a high-resolution, orthorectified base map for a specific date (June 17, 2015).
- Commissioned by a national water management authority (Rijkswaterstaat) for a specific monitoring programme.
- Available in multiple geospatial service formats (WMS, WCS) for direct integration into GIS workflows.
Limitations
- Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; the dataset represents a single snapshot in time.
Provenance
- Source
- Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties
- Collection Method
- Created from stereo aerial images.
- Time Range
- June 17, 2015
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Westerschelde estuary, Netherlands