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Damaged Roofs After Hurricane Ida (Blue Tarp Map)

Hurricane Ida - Detected Blue Tarps
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A map flagging blue tarps spotted on damaged buildings after Hurricane Ida, which mark roofs hit by the storm.

How it's made. Created with an algorithm that picked out blue pixels on buildings in Planet satellite imagery.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders locate damaged homes and direct recovery efforts after the hurricane.

What's measured

bluetarpdetection

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2017-02-11 → 2022-02-12
  • Spatial extent-90.274, 18.304, -65.976, 30.052
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Blue tarps were detected in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida using Planet Imagery. The detection algorithm involved segmenting out blue pixels from the buildings in the affected region.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("blue-tarp-detection")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).