Earth Data School
About
Full catalog/landfill-emit
landfill-emit·dataset

Methane Plumes Over Landfills

EMIT Landfill Plumes
land NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Identifies plumes of methane gas rising from landfills in June and August 2023.

How it's made. Detected by NASA's EMIT instrument on the International Space Station, which senses gases by their light signature.

How & where you'd use it. Helps pinpoint major methane leaks to support cleaner air and environmental justice efforts.

What's measured

landfillemit

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2023-06-22 → 2023-08-25
  • Spatial extent-121.191, 32.521, -96.673, 37.883
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

EMIT landfill plumes in June and August 2023 supporting Environmental Justice

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("landfill-emit")
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).