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Greenfield, Iowa Before the Tornado, Spring 2024

Planet TrueColor Satellite Imagery (Greenfield IA Tornado Damage - Pre)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. True-color satellite photos of Greenfield, Iowa taken before the spring 2024 tornado, providing a baseline view of the town.

How it's made. Captured by Planet's commercial PlanetScope small-satellite fleet as natural-color visible imagery.

How & where you'd use it. Serves as a before picture to compare against post-tornado damage.

What's measured

greenfieldpretornadoes2024

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-05-20 → 2024-05-20
  • Spatial extent-94.574, 41.209, -94.174, 41.433
  • 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

Commercial SmallSat PlanetScope Satellite Visible Imagery of select locations that experienced tornado damage during the spring of 2024 in the United States. The location in this collection is Greenfield, Iowa before the tornado strike.

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("ps-greenfield-pre-tornadoes-2024")
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).