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landsat-nighttime-thermal·dataset

Night-Time Heat View of the Lahaina Fire

Landsat 8 Nighttime Thermal Imagery
land NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Detects heat from the Lahaina, Hawaii wildfire while it was still actively burning.

How it's made. From Landsat 8's thermal infrared sensor, which reads heat given off by the ground.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders locate active fire fronts and hot spots even in darkness.

What's measured

landsatnighttimethermal

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2023-08-08 → 2023-08-08
  • Spatial extent-156.697, 20.842, -156.643, 20.912
  • 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

Landsat-8 thermal IR data over Lahaina as the fire was active.

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("landsat-nighttime-thermal")
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).