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EPA-daily-emissions_5_Forest_Fires·dataset

U.S. Methane From Forest Fires (Daily Map)

Gridded 2012 EPA Methane Emissions - Forest Fires (daily)
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A day-by-day map of methane released by forest fires across the United States, from the EPA's 2012 emissions inventory, showing how this source changes over time.

How it's made. Built by the EPA by estimating daily methane from forest fires and placing the totals onto a grid of map cells.

How & where you'd use it. Lets researchers see how wildfire methane rises and falls through the year for finer climate analysis.

What's measured

EPAdailyemissionsForestFires

Coverage & cadence

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

What you can do with it

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

Emissions from sector 5 from forest fires (daily).

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-daily-emissions_5_Forest_Fires")
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).