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houston-lst-diff·dataset

Houston Daytime Land-Heating Change Over Time

Houston LST (Diff)
land NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. How much the daytime ground-surface temperature across the Houston metro area increased between decades, with higher values showing bigger rises.

How it's made. Made from NASA's MODIS satellite land-surface-temperature measurements, comparing decade-long averages.

How & where you'd use it. Helps reveal where the city is warming fastest, guiding heat-resilience and cooling efforts.

What's measured

houstonlstdiff

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

Changes in decadally averaged land surface temperature (LST, daytime) in the Houston metro area. The higher the value, the larger the increase.

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-diff")
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).