IMEO MARS
Project Aerosol
The United Nations International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) is setting up a Methane Alert Response System (MARS) to support governments and businesses to reduce their methane emissions as promised under the Methane Pledge. SRON is one of the core partners of MARS. It will support mitigation efforts by using TROPOMI satellite data to find methane hot spots around the world and to help guide the high-resolution satellites that provide facility-level emissions.
TROPOMI methane data averaged over 2019-2020 shows a number of hot spots along the coast of West Turkmenistan. Zooming in with high spatial resolution satellites showed that many of the underlying sources are non-burning flares (Irakulis-Loitxate, 2022).
Experts who worked on this project:
Bram Maasakkers
Senior Scientist
Ilse Aben
Senior Scientist
Tobias de Jong
Scientist
Shubham Sharma
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UNEP
25 november 2022
Project
SPEXone for PACE
SPEXone is a compact five-angle spectropolarimeter instrument developed as a contributed payload for the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) observatory, to be launched in 2024.
25 november 2022
Project
TROPOMI
The Dutch Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) is flying onboard the Copernicus Sentinel-5p mission, launched in 2017. Every day it scans the entire globe for e.g. methane and carbon monoxide concentrations at city-scale level.
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