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houston-ndvi·dataset

Houston Vegetation Greenness

Houston NDVI: decadal average
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. How green and plant-covered the Houston metro area is, averaged over a decade, with higher values meaning more vegetation.

How it's made. Made from NASA's MODIS satellite vegetation greenness measurements.

How & where you'd use it. Helps track greenery and tree cover, which can cool neighborhoods and improve livability.

What's measured

houstonndvi

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2000-01-01 → 2019-01-01
  • Spatial extent-97, 27.999, -94, 31.01
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

MODIS-calculated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) 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-ndvi")
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).