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la-fires-gedi·dataset

Forest Mass Before the 2025 LA Fires

Eaton and Palisades Fires (2025) Above Groud Biomass
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Estimates how much living plant material (above-ground biomass) stood over the burn areas of the 2025 Eaton and Palisades Fires in Southern California.

How it's made. Drawn from NASA's GEDI space laser, which measures the height and density of vegetation from orbit.

How & where you'd use it. Helps gauge how much fuel and forest was lost, and the amount of carbon released by the fires.

What's measured

firesgedi

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2025-01-07 → 2025-01-07
  • Spatial extent-118.686, 34.03, -118.013, 34.238
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

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

Satellite-derived above-ground biomass (extracted from GEDI data) over the burn scar extents of the Eaton and Palisades Fires in Southern California (2025).

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("la-fires-gedi")
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).