ECOSTRESS is Successfully Downlinking all Five Thermal Infrared Bands

May 18, 2023
By: LP DAAC

The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) is pleased to announce that ECOSTRESS has now successfully returned to 5-band mode after being in 3-band mode since 2019. This feature was successfully enabled following a Data Processing Unit firmware update (version 4.1) to the payload on April 28, 2023. To better balance contiguous science data scene variables, 3-band collection is currently being interleaved with 5-band acquisitions over the orbital day/night periods.

The 8.285 μm and 9.060 μm TIR bands contain data values for ECOSTRESS data products acquired after the firmware update on April 28, 2023. For acquisitions between May 15, 2019 and April 28, 2023, the 8.285 μm and 9.060 μm TIR bands contain fill values.

ECOSTRESS Version 2 data products are available for download through NASA’s Earthdata Search.

Have questions? Contact LP DAAC User Services at lpdaac@usgs.gov.