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EPA-monthly-emissions_4C_Rice_Cultivation·dataset

U.S. Methane From Rice Farming (Monthly Map)

Gridded 2012 EPA Methane Emissions - Rice Cultivation (monthly)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A month-by-month map of methane released by growing rice in flooded fields across the United States, from the EPA's 2012 emissions inventory.

How it's made. Built by the EPA by estimating monthly methane from rice cultivation and placing the totals onto a grid of map cells.

How & where you'd use it. Helps track seasonal rice-paddy methane for national climate accounting and farming emission studies.

What's measured

EPAmonthlyemissionsRiceCultivation

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 4C from rice cultivation (monthly).

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-monthly-emissions_4C_Rice_Cultivation")
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).