What is EddyPro™?

EddyPro™ is software for processing raw eddy covariance (EC) data to compute biosphere/atmosphere fluxes of CO₂, H₂O, CH₄, other trace gases, and energy. It is based on the ECO₂S¹ package, which was released as free software by the consortium participating in the IMECC-EU European project². EddyPro is customized to efficiently process eddy covariance data logged to LI-COR^® gas analyzers (.ghg files). It also supports other raw file types, including data stored as ASCII tables, binary files in the TOB1 format, and SLT (EddySoft and EdiSol) formats.

ECO₂S is the result of a software development and validation effort that started in 2006 in the framework of the CarboEurope IP project³, was partially supported by the ICOS European Infrastructure⁴. This project came to a conclusion in 2011 with the release of ECO₂S 1.6.5. During the IMECC-EU project, the first complete versions of the software were thoroughly validated against six other eddy covariance packages, including EdiRe and EddySoft software.

In 2010, LI-COR® selected this software platform as the foundation for the EddyPro data processing and analysis package. EddyPro 3.0 is the latest result of this effort. It is designed to provide easy, accurate EC flux computations.

EddyPro is released as open source software, with one official version that is fully documented, maintained, and supported by LI-COR®, Inc.