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 remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward

N Pettorelli, H Schulte to Bühne… - Remote Sensing in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Societal, economic and scientific interests in knowing where biodiversity is, how it is faring
and what can be done to efficiently mitigate further biodiversity loss and the associated loss …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Interpreting contemporary trends in atmospheric methane

AJ Turner, C Frankenberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Atmospheric methane plays a major role in controlling climate, yet contemporary methane
trends (1982–2017) have defied explanation with numerous, often conflicting, hypotheses …

California's methane super-emitters

RM Duren, AK Thorpe, KT Foster, T Rafiq, FM Hopkins… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is targeted for emissions mitigation by the US
state of California and other jurisdictions worldwide,. Unique opportunities for mitigation are …

Satellite observations of atmospheric methane and their value for quantifying methane emissions

DJ Jacob, AJ Turner, JD Maasakkers… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Methane is a greenhouse gas emitted by a range of natural and anthropogenic sources.
Atmospheric methane has been measured continuously from space since 2003, and new …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying methane point sources from fine-scale satellite observations of atmospheric methane plumes

DJ Varon, DJ Jacob, J McKeever… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - amt.copernicus.org
Anthropogenic methane emissions originate from a large number of relatively small point
sources. The planned GHGSat satellite fleet aims to quantify emissions from individual point …