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la-fires-sea·dataset

Protected Natural Areas in Los Angeles County

LA County Significant Ecological Areas (SEA)
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Outlines Significant Ecological Areas and Coastal Resource Areas in Los Angeles County, California.

How it's made. Compiled from Los Angeles County maps of ecologically important lands.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders understand which sensitive habitats lie in a fire's path.

What's measured

firessea

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2025-01-01 → 2025-01-01
  • Spatial extent-118.973, 33.292, -117.645, 34.827
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

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

Significant Ecological Areas and Coastal Resource Areas in Los Angeles County, California.

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-sea")
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).