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burma-eq-planet-pre·dataset

Mandalay Before the 2025 Burma Earthquake (Satellite Photo)

PlanetScope Satellite Imagery (2025 Burma Earthquake - Pre)
deformation NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Natural-color satellite imagery of the Mandalay, Burma area taken before the 2025 earthquake.

How it's made. Captured by Planet Labs' commercial satellites, provided through NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program.

How & where you'd use it. Serves as the baseline 'before' view for measuring earthquake damage in Mandalay.

What's measured

burmaplanetpre

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2025-03-28 → 2025-03-28
  • Spatial extent95.931, 21.751, 96.325, 22.142
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Measure ground motion and subsidence (InSAR)
  • Track earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides
  • Map elevation and terrain change
Official description

TrueColor RGB commercial satellite imagery from Planet Labs of the Mandalay, Burma area from before the 2025 earthquake. This data was made available through the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program.

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("burma-eq-planet-pre")
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).