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EPA-annual-emissions_1B1a_Coal_Mining_Surface·dataset

U.S. Methane From Surface Coal Mines (2012)

Gridded 2012 EPA Methane Emissions - Surface Coal Mines
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A map of 2012 methane emissions across the U.S. released by open-pit surface coal mining.

How it's made. Compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency into a gridded national emissions inventory.

How & where you'd use it. Helps researchers and policymakers see where surface coal mining adds methane to the air.

What's measured

EPAannualemissions1B1aCoalMiningSurface

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2012-01-01 → 2012-12-31
  • Spatial extent-130, 20, -60, 55
  • 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

Emissions from sector 1B1a from surface coal mining.

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("EPA-annual-emissions_1B1a_Coal_Mining_Surface")
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).