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EPA-annual-emissions_6A_Landfills_Industrial·dataset

U.S. Methane From Industrial Landfills (Yearly Map)

Gridded 2012 EPA Methane Emissions - Industrial Landfills
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A map of methane released by landfills that handle industrial solid waste (not household trash) across the United States over a year, from the EPA's 2012 emissions inventory.

How it's made. Built by the EPA by estimating methane from industrial waste landfills and placing the totals onto a grid of map cells.

How & where you'd use it. Helps identify where landfill methane is produced so it can be tracked and curbed in national climate plans.

What's measured

EPAannualemissionsLandfillsIndustrial

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 6A from non-municipal solid waste landfills used to to dispose of industrial solid waste.

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_6A_Landfills_Industrial")
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).