EDF Announces Satellite Mission to Locate and Measure Methane Emissions
https://www.edf.org/media/edf-announces-satellite-mission-locate-and-measure-methane-emissions
Source: By Environmental Defense Fund
Excerpt: New TED Talk ...about plans to develop and launch a new satellite purpose-built to identify and measure methane emissions from human-made sources worldwide, starting with the oil and gas industry. Data from MethaneSAT is intended to give both countries and companies robust data to spot problem areas, identify savings opportunities, and measure their progress over time. ...“Cutting methane emissions from the global oil and gas industry is the single fastest thing we can do to help put the brakes on climate change right now, even as we continue to attack the carbon dioxide emissions most people are more familiar with,” Krupp said. ...It was 1978 when NASA’s Nimbus-7 satellite was first launched. It was that satellite that verified the hole in the ozone layer, and sparked a movement that led to one of the greatest environmental success stories humanity has ever achieved. Our new MethaneSAT will... [provide] global high-resolution coverage of methane emissions. As a single-purpose platform, it will be quicker and less expensive to launch than the complex multifunction satellites built by government space agencies, so we can get data sooner. And we will use that data to give industry, investors, and regulators an essential tool to spot problem areas, identify reductions, and measure progress....
Source: By Environmental Defense Fund
Excerpt: New TED Talk ...about plans to develop and launch a new satellite purpose-built to identify and measure methane emissions from human-made sources worldwide, starting with the oil and gas industry. Data from MethaneSAT is intended to give both countries and companies robust data to spot problem areas, identify savings opportunities, and measure their progress over time. ...“Cutting methane emissions from the global oil and gas industry is the single fastest thing we can do to help put the brakes on climate change right now, even as we continue to attack the carbon dioxide emissions most people are more familiar with,” Krupp said. ...It was 1978 when NASA’s Nimbus-7 satellite was first launched. It was that satellite that verified the hole in the ozone layer, and sparked a movement that led to one of the greatest environmental success stories humanity has ever achieved. Our new MethaneSAT will... [provide] global high-resolution coverage of methane emissions. As a single-purpose platform, it will be quicker and less expensive to launch than the complex multifunction satellites built by government space agencies, so we can get data sooner. And we will use that data to give industry, investors, and regulators an essential tool to spot problem areas, identify reductions, and measure progress....