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tx-flood-maxar-pre·dataset

Satellite View of the 2025 Texas Flood (Before)

MAXAR Commercial Satellite Imagery (2025 Texas Flood - Pre)
hydrosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. True-color satellite imagery of the Guadalupe River in central Texas taken on March 12, 2025, before the devastating July 4 flash flood, showing the area in normal conditions.

How it's made. High-resolution commercial satellite imagery from Maxar, provided through NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program.

How & where you'd use it. Serves as a baseline to compare against after-flood imagery and reveal damage.

What's measured

floodmaxarpre

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2025-03-12 → 2025-03-12
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • 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

TrueColor commercial satellite imagery from MAXAR taken on March 12, 2025 of the Guadalupe River in central Texas prior to a devastating flash flood on July 4, 2025. 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("tx-flood-maxar-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).