Atmospheric remote sensing for anthropogenic methane emissions: Applications and research opportunities

S Zhang, J Ma, X Zhang, C Guo - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Methane is the second most significant greenhouse gas (GHG) only after carbon dioxide.
Human activities substantially increase the atmospheric methane concentration globally, but …

Recent advances toward transparent methane emissions monitoring: a review

BM Erland, AK Thorpe, JA Gamon - Environmental Science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Given that anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be immediately reduced
to avoid drastic increases in global temperature, methane emissions have been placed …

Automatic detection of methane emissions in multispectral satellite imagery using a vision transformer

B Rouet-Leduc, C Hulbert - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Curbing methane emissions is among the most effective actions that can be taken to slow
down global warming. However, monitoring emissions remains challenging, as detection …

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 …

Automated detection and monitoring of methane super-emitters using satellite data

BJ Schuit, JD Maasakkers, P Bijl… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
A reduction in anthropogenic methane emissions is vital to limit near-term global warming. A
small number of so-called super-emitters is responsible for a disproportionally large fraction …

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 …

Map** methane point emissions with the PRISMA spaceborne imaging spectrometer

L Guanter, I Irakulis-Loitxate, J Gorroño… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The detection and repairment of methane leaks from fossil fuel production activities have
been identified as a key climate change mitigation strategy. Several types of optical satellite …

Improving quantification of methane point source emissions from imaging spectroscopy

Z Pei, G Han, H Mao, C Chen, T Shi, K Yang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The matched filter (MF) method is widely used for hyperspectral imaging spectrometers to
detect and quantify methane point sources due to its high computational efficiency …

Satellites detect abatable super-emissions in one of the world's largest methane hotspot regions

I Irakulis-Loitxate, L Guanter… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Reduction of fossil fuel-related methane emissions has been identified as an essential
means for climate change mitigation, but emission source identification remains elusive for …