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eis_fire_perimeter·dataset

Wildfire Boundaries

Fire Perimeters
biosphere NASA VEDA active COG
In plain English

What it measures. Outlines of the total area burned by wildfires, drawn from satellite fire detections.

How it's made. Estimated from VIIRS satellite detections of active fires and burned ground.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders and scientists track how big a fire has grown and where its edges are.

What's measured

eisfireperimeter

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span— → ongoing
  • Spatial extent-171.791, 18.916, -66.965, 71.358
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

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

Perimeter of cumulative fire-area estimated from VIIRs detections

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("eis_fire_perimeter")
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).