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la-fires-slope·dataset

Terrain Steepness, 2025 LA Fire Areas

Eaton and Palisades Fires (2025) Slope
biosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Shows how steep the land is across the burn areas of the 2025 Palisades and Eaton Fires.

How it's made. Calculated from a digital elevation model, a 3D map of the land's surface height.

How & where you'd use it. Steep slopes raise the risk of mudslides and debris flows after a fire, helping responders plan ahead.

What's measured

firesslope

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2025-01-09 → 2025-01-09
  • 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

Computed slope from a digital elevation model (DEM) of the 2025 Palisades and Eaton Fires' burn scar extent.

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-slope")
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).