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Landslide Damage Hot Spots, Hurricane Helene

Impactful Landslides Kernel Density - Hurricane Helene
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Highlights areas where Hurricane Helene's landslides clustered and directly hit buildings, roads, or rivers.

How it's made. A kernel-density analysis that turns confirmed landslide locations into a map of impact concentration.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders prioritize the places where landslides did the most damage to people and infrastructure.

What's measured

landslidesimpactedstructures

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-09-29 → 2024-09-29
  • Spatial extent-122.054, 31.847, -18.24, 39.355
  • 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

Kernel density analysis of confirmed landslides that per the USGS directly impacted structures, roads, or rivers and 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-kd-impacted-structures")
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).