NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms

K Cawse-Nicholson, PA Townsend, D Schimel… - Remote sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2017–2027 National Academies' Decadal Survey, Thriving on Our Changing
Planet, recommended Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) as a “Designated Targeted …

UAV-based remote sensing for the petroleum industry and environmental monitoring: State-of-the-art and perspectives

S Asadzadeh, WJ de Oliveira… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), popularly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a
human pilot aboard. Recent developments in sensor technology and navigation systems …

Global assessment of oil and gas methane ultra-emitters

T Lauvaux, C Giron, M Mazzolini, A d'Aspremont… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Methane emissions from oil and gas (O&G) production and transmission represent a
considerable contribution to climate change. These emissions comprise sporadic releases …

Assessment of methane emissions from the US oil and gas supply chain

RA Alvarez, D Zavala-Araiza, DR Lyon, DT Allen… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Methane emissions from the US oil and natural gas supply chain were estimated by using
ground-based, facility-scale measurements and validated with aircraft observations in areas …

Using satellites to uncover large methane emissions from landfills

JD Maasakkers, DJ Varon, A Elfarsdóttir… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
As atmospheric methane concentrations increase at record pace, it is critical to identify
individual emission sources with high potential for mitigation. Here, we leverage the synergy …

Attribution of individual methane and carbon dioxide emission sources using EMIT observations from space

AK Thorpe, RO Green, DR Thompson, PG Brodrick… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Carbon dioxide and methane emissions are the two primary anthropogenic climate-forcing
agents and an important source of uncertainty in the global carbon budget. Uncertainties are …

Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane

DJ Jacob, DJ Varon, DH Cusworth… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We review the capability of current and scheduled satellite observations of atmospheric
methane in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) to quantify methane emissions from the global …

Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space

Y Zhang, R Gautam, S Pandey, M Omara… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Using new satellite observations and atmospheric inverse modeling, we report methane
emissions from the Permian Basin, which is among the world's most prolific oil-producing …

Machine learning for the geosciences: Challenges and opportunities

A Karpatne, I Ebert-Uphoff, S Ravela… - … on Knowledge and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Geosciences is a field of great societal relevance that requires solutions to several urgent
problems facing our humanity and the planet. As geosciences enters the era of big data …

Satellite-based survey of extreme methane emissions in the Permian basin

I Irakulis-Loitxate, L Guanter, YN Liu, DJ Varon… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Industrial emissions play a major role in the global methane budget. The Permian basin is
thought to be responsible for almost half of the methane emissions from all US oil-and gas …