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
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!
The EEH project was presented at the 2023 ESA International Workshop on High Resolution Thermal EO in May at Rome, Italy.