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hls-l30-002-ej-reprocessed·dataset

Landsat Imagery for Environmental Justice Events

HLSL30.002 Environmental Justice Events
land NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A curated selection of Landsat satellite snapshots chosen to illustrate specific events tied to environmental justice concerns.

How it's made. Made from NASA's Harmonized Landsat satellite imagery (the Landsat-based L30 product).

How & where you'd use it. Helps communities and researchers visualize environmental changes affecting vulnerable or overburdened neighborhoods.

What's measured

hlsl30002reprocessed

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2017-06-06 → 2021-10-21
  • Spatial extent-90.933, 17.962, -65.11, 30.716
  • 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

A subset of HLS L30 data to support visualization of specific events. Read more about the source data on the NASA CMR Landing page: https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2021957295-LPCLOUD.html

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("hls-l30-002-ej-reprocessed")
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).