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houston-lst-day·dataset

Houston Daytime Land Temperature

Houston land surface temperature during daytime - decadal average
land NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. How hot the ground surface gets during the day across the Houston metro area, averaged over a decade.

How it's made. Made from NASA's MODIS satellite land-surface-temperature measurements.

How & where you'd use it. Helps identify urban heat hotspots that put residents at risk during hot weather.

What's measured

houstonlstday

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2000-01-01 → 2019-01-01
  • Spatial extent-97, 27.993, -94, 31.01
  • 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-calculated Land Surface Temperature (LST) Daytime over the Houston metro area, decadally averaged.

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("houston-lst-day")
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).