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EPA-monthly-emissions_4F_Field_Burning·dataset

U.S. Methane From Crop-Field Burning (Monthly Map)

Gridded 2012 EPA Methane Emissions - Field Burning (monthly)
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A month-by-month map of methane released when farmers burn crop residue in their 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 agricultural field burning and placing the totals onto a grid of map cells.

How & where you'd use it. Helps track methane from farm-field burning for national greenhouse-gas accounting.

What's measured

EPAmonthlyemissionsFieldBurning

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 4F from agricultural field burning (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_4F_Field_Burning")
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).