HydroDataCube4EU project

About

Project launch planning.

September 2025

Proposal application

Proposal submitted for the call
February 2026

Decision

Grant Agreement Preparation in process. Adjustments of deliverables and dates.
September 2026

Project start

Project kick-off has been planned at the Soils for Europe conference!
March 2027

First batch of deliverables

Planned delivery of the implementation plan and several other strategic documents.
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Deliverables

Key planned project deliverables.

Novel data sets

Numerous high resolution data sets at 10 m or coarser: SoilHydro10m data set (includes both static and dynamic soil variables from the period 2000–2025+ including soil bulk density, soil texture fractions, soil water holding capacity, saturated hydraulic conductivity), flood simulations and drought risk maps for pan-EU, high-resolution surface soil moisture, SoilSuite+, Fractional Vegetation Cover at 20 m spatial resolution.

Pilots

To demonstrate, validate, and upscale our innovative HydroDataCube4EU modelling framework, the project will establish six pilot catchment sites. The pilot sites were selected at the catchment scale to fully capture soil-water interactions under real land use and hydrological conditions.

Software

Number of algorithms will be extended and new created aiming at full integration of soil-hydrology, soil-vegetation-climate (+soil biodiversity) and ML could lead to significant improvements in mapping accuracy. Modelling and satellite data at high resolution (1 km to 100 m resolution) will be integrated and processed to compute anomaly indices to be used directly as drought risk indicators.

Project lead

OpenGeoHub foundation

Dr. Tomislav (Tom) Hengl

Principal Investigator (project lead)

Dr. Leandro Parente

WP lead / data management

Tianyu Yang

Project coordinator assistant

Soil-hydrology data cube for EU (HydroDataCube4EU): A 10 m resolution soil-water-climate modeling platform to support mitigating flood, drought, wildfire events and help raise awareness of soil biodiversity's relevance for managing European landscapes. The project is currently in the GAP phase. The planned start of the project is: 1st of September 2026.