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North Carolina Before Hurricane Helene (Planet Imagery)

PlanetScope Satellite Imagery (NC Hurricane Helene - Pre)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Natural-colour satellite photos of parts of North Carolina taken before Hurricane Helene struck, as a baseline.

How it's made. Commercial true-colour imagery from Planet Labs satellites, obtained through NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program.

How & where you'd use it. Serves as a before picture so analysts can measure exactly what changed after the storm.

What's measured

landslidesplanetpre

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-09-21 → 2024-09-21
  • Spatial extent-82.962, 35.342, -82.131, 35.892
  • 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

TrueColor RGB commercial satellite imagery from Planet Labs of portions of North Carolina from before Hurricane Helene's impacts. This data was made available through the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program.

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-planet-pre")
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).