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Hurricane Ida Vegetation Greenness, Louisiana

NDVI for Pre and Post-Hurricane Ida from PlanetScope
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Plant greenness across southern Louisiana before and after Hurricane Ida, showing the state of vegetation around the storm.

How it's made. Made from PlanetScope commercial satellite imagery, using a vegetation greenness index.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders compare landscapes before and after the storm to assess damage.

What's measured

idandvi

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2021-08-23 → 2021-09-09
  • Spatial extent-90.864, 29.016, -90.045, 29.663
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

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

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index before and after Hurricane Ida in Southern Louisiana.

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("ida-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).