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derecho-planet-rockvalley·dataset

Satellite View of Derecho Damage in Rock Valley, Iowa

Planet TrueColor Satellite Imagery (Rock Valley IA Derecho Damage)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. True-color satellite photos of Rock Valley, Iowa, after a derecho windstorm caused damage there on May 12, 2022.

How it's made. Made from PlanetScope optical satellite imagery captured by Planet Labs' small-satellite fleet.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders assess storm damage to the town from above.

What's measured

derechoplanetrockvalley

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2022-05-13 → 2022-05-13
  • Spatial extent-96.754, 43.099, -96.259, 43.359
  • 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

Commercial SmallSat PlanetScope Satellite Visible Imagery of select locations that experienced derecho damage on May 12th, 2022 in the United States. The location in this collection is Rock Valley, Iowa.

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("derecho-planet-rockvalley")
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).