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ps-lakeview-winchester-tornadoes-2024·dataset

Winchester IN and Lakeview OH Tornado Damage, Spring 2024

Planet TrueColor Satellite Imagery (Winchester IN, Lakeview OH Tornado Damage)
hydrosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. True-color satellite photos of Winchester, Indiana and Lakeview, Ohio, showing damage from the tornadoes that struck in spring 2024.

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

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders and officials assess tornado destruction across both towns.

What's measured

lakeviewwinchestertornadoes2024

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-03-16 → 2024-03-16
  • Spatial extent-85.054, 40.059, -83.692, 40.622
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Follow rainfall, floods and surface-water extent
  • Track soil moisture and the onset of drought
  • Monitor lakes, rivers and groundwater storage
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 locations in this collection include Winchester, IN and Lakeview, OH.

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-lakeview-winchester-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).