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True-Color Satellite View of the 2025 Eaton Fire

PlanetScope Satellite Imagery (2025 Eaton Fire)
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A natural-color satellite picture of the Eaton Fire north of Los Angeles on January 9, 2025.

How it's made. Captured by Planet Labs' commercial satellites and shared through NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program.

How & where you'd use it. Gives responders a clear everyday-color view of the fire's footprint and damage.

What's measured

firesplanet

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2025-01-09 → 2025-01-09
  • Spatial extent-118.359, 33.822, -117.892, 34.343
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

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

TrueColor RGB commercial satellite imagery from Planet Labs of the Eaton Fire on January 9, 2025 north of Los Angeles, CA. This data was made available through the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program

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-planet")
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).