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greenville-nightlights-tornadoes-2024·dataset

Greenville, Ohio tornado damage seen in night lights, from NASA's Black Marble (VIIRS)

Black Marble Night Lights (Greenville OH Tornado Damage)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Night-time lighting over Greenville, Ohio, showing where power and lights went dark after tornadoes struck during the spring 2024 tornado season.

How it's made. Made from NASA's Black Marble night-time lights imagery.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders see which neighborhoods lost power and were hardest hit, guiding recovery efforts.

What's measured

greenvillenightlightstornadoes2024

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-05-07 → 2024-05-08
  • Spatial extent-85.037, 39.748, -84.198, 40.416
  • 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

Black Marble night lights imagery of tornado damage at Greenville, Ohio 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("greenville-nightlights-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).