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county_grasslands_pasture_2019-v1·dataset

U.S. County Grasslands and Pasture, 2019

County Grasslands and Pasture 2019
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Shows the amount of grassland and pasture land in each U.S. county for 2019.

How it's made. Compiled as county-level land-use data summarizing grassland and pasture extent.

How & where you'd use it. Supports agriculture, land-use, and conservation analysis at the county level.

What's measured

countygrasslandspasture2019

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2019-01-01 → 2019-01-01
  • Spatial extent-171.09, -14.549, 145.83, 71.353
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

County-level grasslands and pasture data for 2019

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("county_grasslands_pasture_2019-v1")
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).