The satellite will be able to pinpoint individual emitters such as coal-fired power plants or cement production sites.
. Detecting the additional plume coming from human-made sources on top of this high background therefore requires sensitive sensors that have not been available before. In comparison, there are only about 1,900 parts of methane per billion parts of air in Earth's atmosphere, which makes the detection of additional sources much easier.
However, after fine-tuning their technology for the past six years, GHGSat said their new GHGSat-C10 satellite will be able to detect spot sources of carbon dioxide with a resolution of 82 feet , enough to reliably call out individual polluters. "GHGSat-C10 will use a similar optical design and the same patented infrared sensor as its methane-detecting predecessors, but tuned to carbon dioxide specific wavelengths," the company said in aGHGSat flew its first carbon dioxide-detecting sensor already on its 2016 demonstration satellite. The company's focus, however, later shifted to methane due to market demand, the company added.
Other satellites currently orbit Earth with missions to monitor fluctuations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. These satellites, such as
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