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Greenville, Ohio Tornado Damage Seen From Night Lights

Black Marble Night Lights (Greenville OH Tornado Damage)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Night-time lighting over Greenville, Ohio, showing where power and lights went dark after tornadoes struck during the spring 2024 tornado season.

How it's made. Made from NASA's Black Marble night-time lights imagery.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders see which neighborhoods lost power and were hardest hit, guiding recovery efforts.

What's measured

greenvillenightlightstornadoes2024

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-05-07 → 2024-05-08
  • Spatial extent-85.037, 39.748, -84.198, 40.416
  • 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

Black Marble night lights imagery of tornado damage at Greenville, Ohio in the spring 2024 tornado season.

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("greenville-nightlights-tornadoes-2024")
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).