How I built a free carbon credit risk model using NASA satellite data, dbt, and Streamlit

likithasree Yarabarla — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:41:07 +0000

I spent 3 weeks building an open-source pipeline
that scores permanence risk for every blue carbon
project on Verra registry.

Here's the stack:

→ NASA FIRMS API — live satellite fire alerts
→ World Bank API — 9 years of deforestation data
→ dbt + DuckDB — data modeling and testing
→ Streamlit — deployed dashboard
→ GitHub Actions — CI on every push

The tricky parts:

NASA FIRMS uses MAP_KEY not bearer token
World Bank WGI indicators changed endpoint
Merging Verra IDs (numeric) with Berkeley IDs (VCS1234 format) required string parsing

Live dashboard: (https://likitha-blue-carbon.streamlit.app/)

Full code:(https://github.com/likitha-sree-data/dbt-carbon-mrv)

Happy to answer any technical questions in comments.

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How I built a free carbon credit risk model using NASA satellite data, dbt, and Streamlit