Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Earlier this year, GHGSat launched the world’s first satellite capable of measuring greenhouse gas emissions from targeted industrial facilities around the world. We will offer a single solution to measure emission rates of carbon dioxide and methane from selected targets with greater precision and lower cost than ground-based alternatives, across a wide range of industries. GHGSat will derive the emission rates of these sources from 12 x 12 km2 maps of the atmospheric column densities of carbon dioxide and methane produced using its patented sensor at a spatial resolution better than 50 m. Satellite mass is less than 15 kg. Our solution will provide industrial site operators and government regulators with the information they need to understand and manage their greenhouse gas emissions better and ultimately to reduce them more economically. We will describe the system, including the sensor and satellite specifications. We will also describe our products and services and provide an early look at imagery from our first satellite.
Authors: Stéphane Germain, Berke O. A. Durak, Jason McKeever, Vincent Latendresse, Cordell Grant, J. J. Sloan
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2504413553