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delta-disasters-planet-tornado·dataset

Satellite View After the 2023 Rolling Fork Tornado

PlanetScope Satellite Imagery (2023 Rolling Fork Tornado)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Commercial satellite imagery of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, after an EF-4 tornado struck on March 24, 2023, with colors enhanced so damage and vegetation stand out.

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. Helps responders see the tornado's path and where the worst damage occurred.

What's measured

deltadisastersplanettornado

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2023-03-25 → 2023-03-25
  • Spatial extent-91.177, 32.71, -90.743, 33.089
  • 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

False Color Composite (FCC) commercial satellite imagery from Planet Labs of the Rolling Fork, Mississippi area after an EF-4 tornado strike on March 24, 2023. 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-tornado")
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).