ECOSTRESS
European Hub
Your centralized source for land surface temperature and evaporation data from the ECOSTRESS mission for Europe and Africa
OBJECTIVES
The European ECOSTRESS Hub (EEH) project develops land surface temperature (LST) and evaporation (ET) products for Europe and Africa using high spatial and temporal resolution information from the ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on the ISS
The ECOSTRESS (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station) mission of NASA has the unique remote sensing capability of observing and acquiring diurnal earth surface temperature images at a spatial resolution of 70 m.
This gives a new opportunity to exploit the earth surface temperature images for observing the water stress of terrestrial ecosystems during different times of a day.
The European ECOSTRESS Hub (EEH) processes these temperature images into the ECOSTRESS Level 2 and 3 land surface temperature (LST) and Evaporation (ET) products to detect the timing, location, and responsible factors leading to water stress, plant-water uptake, its decline, recovery, and cessation over the diurnal cycle. To support this objective globally, the European ECOSTRESS Hub (EEH) generates continental-scale LST and ET products over Europe and Africa.
European ECOSTRESS Hub (EEH) is a centralized system that implemented a host of structurally different LST and ET models to generate data products over Europe and Africa.
For an assured data access to a large science community, all the data hosting, model implementation and data product developments are carried out in a cloud environment.
This will allow the scientists not only use the data products, but also exploit the hub to test and fine-tune the algorithms, to prototype tailored products and to prepare new potential data stream within the Copernicus Space Component
The overarching objective of EEH project is to develop Cloud mask, LST and ET products for Europe and Africa using high spatial and temporal resolution information from multiple thermal infrared (TIR) bands of ECOSTRESS.
The data products are available for all the acquisitions over Europe and Africa from 08/2018 to 12/2021.
European ECOSTRESS Hub (EEH) is a project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) under the EOEP-5 (Earth Observation Envelop Programme). It is a two-year project with a funding amount of 300,000 €.
Datasets
All datasets have a 70m resolution corresponding to the ECOSTRESS Level-1 products.
FREE DATA ACCESS
The platforms offer free access to the EEH products, and a comprehensive set of tools and possibilities to process, analyse and integrate them with other EO data
Please refer to the platforms for more advanced features and their prices
The EEH is hosted on WASDI Earth Observation platform and also available on CREODIAS
GLOBAL CONSORTIUM
News & scientific publications
Online publications
Printed publications
EEH News
Mallick K., and coauthors (2024), A reflection on closed-form equation linking ET and canopy-scale conductances with thermal remote sensing for global missions, International Science Workshop for High Resolution Thermal Earth Observation, 19 – 21 November 2024, Ahmedabad, India
Mallick K., and coauthors (2024), Evapotranspiration Response to LST Variability due to Biophysical Regulation: An Outlook for Upcoming Thermal Remote Sensing Missions, RAQRS 2024, 23 – 27 September 2024, Valencia, Spain
Mallick K., coauthors (2023), Conjugate Biophysical Regulation of Stomatal and Aerodynamic Conductance Determines Terrestrial Evaporation Response to Land Surface Temperature Variability, Hydrospace 2023, 27 November – 1 December 2023, Lisbon, Portugal (plenary talk).
Mallick K., coauthors (2023), Putting Biology with Physics in Thermal Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Evaporation and Implications for the Future LST Missions, IGARSS 2023, 16 – 21 July 2023, Pasadena, US.
Mallick K., coauthors (2023), Consort of Conductances: The Missing Biophysical Link in Thermal Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Evaporation and Inclusion for the Future LST missions, High Resolution Thermal EO workshop 2023, 10 -12 May, Rome, Italy.
Mallick K. A reflection on closed-form equation linking ET and canopy-scale conductances with thermal remote sensing for global missions, NASA Ames Research Centre (online), 12/2024 (invited talk).
Mallick K. Thermal Remote Sensing for Advanced Modelling of Terrestrial Ecosystem Processes – A TRISHNA Perspective, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, 11/2024 (invited talk).
Mallick K. Thermal Remote Sensing for Advanced Modelling of Terrestrial Ecosystem Processes – A TRISHNA Perspective, Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organization, Ahmedabad, India, 08/2024 (invited talk).
Mallick K. Integrating Theory and Data Science with Thermal Remote Sensing for Advanced Modelling of Terrestrial Ecosystem Processes, Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Resources (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 07/2024 (invited talk).
Mallick K. Thermal and Shortwave Infrared Remote Sensing of Ecosystem Processes: Opportunities, Synergies, and Future Perspectives, Dept. Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ohio State University, Ohio, United States, 04/2024 (invited talk).
Mallick K. Thermal, VNIR, and Shortwave Infrared Remote Sensing of Ecosystem Processes: Opportunities, Synergies, and Future Perspectives, Biosphere2, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States, 03/2023 (invited talk).
Hu T., Mallick K. High-resolution Mapping of Terrestrial Evapotranspiration using ECOSTRESS – Insights into Surface Energy Balance Modeling, EGU 2024, Vienna, Austria
Hu T., Mallick K. European ECOSTRESS Hub for agricultural water stress monitoring -Implications for future high-resolution thermal missions, ESA EO for Agriculture under PRESSURE Seminar 2024, Frascati, Italy
Hu T. Synergy of multi-source satellite observations for crop stress monitoring under global climate change, UN FAO, 2024 (invited talk)
Hu T., Mallick K. Terrestrial Ecosystem Functioning from High-resolution Thermal Infrared Satellite Observations – Insights from European ECOSTRESS Hub, RAQRS 2024, Valencia, Spain
Hu T. Earth Observation for Water Resource Sustainability in Smart Agriculture, UN GEONOW, 2024, Deqing, China (invited talk)
The second phase of the European ECOSTRESS Hub (EEH) will generate key datasets, including Land Surface Temperature (LST), evaporative fraction, daily evapotranspiration (ET), daily gross primary production (GPP), and water use efficiency (WUE) across Europe and Africa. These datasets will span seven years, covering the period from August 2018 to August 2025.
Using Level-1B radiance from ECOSTRESS Collection-2, the data production is currently underway. We anticipate completing the LST dataset by mid-March 2025, followed by ET and evaporative fraction by summer 2025. The processing of baseline GPP and WUE is set to begin in June 2025.
Stay tuned for further updates!
The EEH2 project was presented at the 2023 IGARSS conference in July at Pasadena, C.A., U.S.
Our research paper “Evaluating European ECOSTRESS Hub evapotranspiration products across a range of soil-atmospheric aridity and biomes over Europe” focusing on EEH ET product evaluation was just accepted by the top hydrology journal Water Resources Research!