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delta-disasters-planet-flood·dataset

Satellite View of the 2019 Yazoo Backwater Flood

PlanetScope Satellite Imagery (2019 Yazoo Backwater Flood)
hydrosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Commercial satellite imagery of the Mississippi Delta at the peak of the 2019 backwater flooding, with colors enhanced so floodwater and vegetation stand out clearly.

How it's made. Made from PlanetScope optical satellite imagery by Planet Labs, processed as a false-color composite and provided through NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program.

How & where you'd use it. Shows responders and officials how far the floodwaters spread across the Delta.

What's measured

deltadisastersplanetflood

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2019-05-23 → 2019-05-23
  • Spatial extent-91.128, 32.721, -90.549, 33.056
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Follow rainfall, floods and surface-water extent
  • Track soil moisture and the onset of drought
  • Monitor lakes, rivers and groundwater storage
Official description

False Color Composite (FCC) commercial satellite imagery from Planet Labs of the Mississippi Delta area from the peak of the 2019 backwater flooding. 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("delta-disasters-planet-flood")
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).