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Greenfield, Iowa Tornado Before-and-After Comparison

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

What it measures. Highlights what changed in Greenfield, Iowa by comparing satellite photos from before and after the spring 2024 tornado, making the damage stand out.

How it's made. Created from Planet's commercial satellite imagery by differencing the before and after natural-color views.

How & where you'd use it. Quickly pinpoints the hardest-hit areas to focus response efforts.

What's measured

tornadoes2024difference

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-05-21 → 2024-05-21
  • Spatial extent-94.574, 41.261, -94.345, 41.431
  • 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 Planet Satellite Imagery difference of tornado damage at Greenfield, Iowa in the spring 2024 tornado season.

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-tornadoes-2024-difference")
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).