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ERCOT-MODIS·dataset

Texas Land Surface Heat During the 2023 Heatwave

MODIS LST for Texas on June 23, 2023
land NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A map of how hot the land surface was across Texas on June 23, 2023, during the 2023 heatwave that strained the state's power grid.

How it's made. Made from MODIS satellite measurements of land-surface temperature, which sense heat radiating from the ground.

How & where you'd use it. Helps show where extreme heat was most intense to support heat-emergency and power-grid planning.

What's measured

ERCOTMODIS

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2023-06-23 → 2023-06-23
  • Spatial extent-106.647, 25.833, -93.511, 36.512
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

MODIS Land-Surface Temperatures over the state of Texas on June 23, 2023 during the 2023 Heatwave

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("ERCOT-MODIS")
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).