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Confirmed Landslides From Hurricane Helene

USGS Landslides Inventory - Hurricane Helene
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Marks the locations of landslides confirmed to have been caused by Hurricane Helene.

How it's made. Compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey from field and remote observations.

How & where you'd use it. Gives responders a verified map of where slopes failed during the storm.

What's measured

landslidesinventory

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-09-29 → 2024-09-29
  • Spatial extent-84.44, 34.673, -80.899, 36.865
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Locations of confirmed landslides per the USGS that occurred as a result of Hurricane Helene.

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("landslides-inventory")
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).