ECOSTRESS land surface temperature data from the ECO_L2_LSTE product over California, United States, acquired on November 29, 2022.
View full-size imageThe ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) mission measures the temperature of plants to better understand how much water plants need and how they respond to stress. ECOSTRESS is attached to the International Space Station (ISS) and collects data globally between 52° N and 52° S latitudes. A map of the acquisition coverage can be found in figure 2 on the ECOSTRESS website.
The ECOSTRESS Swath Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Instantaneous L2 Global 70 m (ECO_L2_LSTE) Version 2 data product provides atmospherically corrected land surface temperature and emissivity (LST&E) values derived from five thermal infrared (TIR) bands. The ECO_L2_LSTE data product was derived using a physics-based Temperature and Emissivity Separation (TES) algorithm. The ECO_L2_LSTE is provided as swath data and has a spatial resolution of 70 meters (m). The corresponding ECO_L1B_GEO data product is required to georeference the ECO_L2_LSTE data product.
The ECO_L2_LSTE Version 2 data product contains layers of LST, emissivity for bands 1 through 5, quality control for LST&E, LST error, emissivity error for bands 1 through 5, wideband emissivity, Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV), cloud mask, and water mask.
| Characteristic | Description |
|---|---|
| Collection | ECOSTRESS |
| DOI | 10.5067/ECOSTRESS/ECO_L2_LSTE.002 |
| File Size | ~150 MB |
| Temporal Resolution | Varies |
| Temporal Extent | 2018-07-09 to Present |
| Spatial Extent | Global (+/- 52 degrees latitude) |
| Coordinate System | N/A |
| Datum | N/A |
| File Format | HDF5 |
| Geographic Dimensions | 400 km x 400 km |
| Characteristic | Description |
|---|---|
| Number of Science Dataset (SDS) Layers | 17 |
| Columns/Rows | 5400 x 5632 |
| Pixel Size | 70 m |
| SDS Name | Description | Units | Data Type | Fill Value | No Data Value | Valid Range | Scale Factor | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LST | Land Surface Temperature | Kelvin | 16-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 7500 to 65535 | 0.02 | N/A |
| QC | Quality Control for LST and emissivity | N/A | 16-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 0 to 65535 | N/A | N/A |
| Emis1 | Band 1 Emissivity | N/A | 8-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 255 | 0.002 | 0.49 |
| Emis2 | Band 2 Emissivity | N/A | 8-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 255 | 0.002 | 0.49 |
| Emis3 | Band 3 Emissivity | N/A | 8-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 255 | 0.002 | 0.49 |
| Emis4 | Band 4 Emissivity | N/A | 8-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 255 | 0.002 | 0.49 |
| Emis5 | Band 5 Emissivity | N/A | 8-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 255 | 0.002 | 0.49 |
| LST_err | Land Surface Temperature error | Kelvin | 8-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 255 | 0.04 | N/A |
| Emis1_err | Band 1 Emissivity error | N/A | 16-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 65535 | 0.0001 | N/A |
| Emis2_err | Band 2 Emissivity error | N/A | 16-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 65535 | 0.0001 | N/A |
| Emis3_err | Band 3 Emissivity error | N/A | 16-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 65535 | 0.0001 | N/A |
| Emis4_err | Band 4 Emissivity error | N/A | 16-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 65535 | 0.0001 | N/A |
| Emis5_err | Band 5 Emissivity error | N/A | 16-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 65535 | 0.0001 | N/A |
| EmisWB | Wide Band Emissivity | N/A | 8-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 255 | 0.002 | 0.49 |
| PWV | Precipitable Water Vapor | cm | 16-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 1 to 65535 | 0.001 | N/A |
| cloud_mask | Final cloud mask | N/A | 8-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 0, 1 | N/A | N/A |
| water_mask | water mask | N/A | 8-bit unsigned integer | N/A | N/A | 0, 1 | N/A | N/A |
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | Clear |
| 1 | Cloudy |
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | Land |
| 1 | Water |
Quality information, including the bit definition index for the quality layer, is provided in Section 2.4 of the User Guide.
Data acquisition gap: ECOSTRESS was launched on June 29, 2018, and moved to autonomous science operations on August 20, 2018, following a successful in-orbit checkout period. On September 29, 2018, ECOSTRESS experienced an anomaly with its primary mass storage unit (MSU). ECOSTRESS has a primary and secondary MSU (A and B). On December 5, 2018, the instrument was switched to the secondary MSU and science operations resumed. On March 14, 2019, the secondary MSU experienced a similar anomaly, temporarily halting science acquisitions. On May 15, 2019, a new data acquisition approach was implemented, and science acquisitions resumed. To optimize the new acquisition approach TIR bands 2, 4, and 5 are being downloaded. The data products are as previously, except the bands not downloaded contain fill values (L1 radiance and L2 emissivity). This approach was implemented from May 15, 2019, through April 28, 2023.
Data acquisition gap: From February 8 to February 16, 2020, an ECOSTRESS instrument issue resulted in a data anomaly that created striping in band 4 (10.5 micron). These data products have been reprocessed and are available for download. No ECOSTRESS data were acquired on February 17, 2020, due to the instrument being in SAFEHOLD. Data acquired following the anomaly have not been affected.
Data acquisition: 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.