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- Title
Methane Mapping with Future Satellite Imaging Spectrometers.
- Authors
Ayasse, Alana K.; Dennison, Philip E.; Foote, Markus; Thorpe, Andrew K.; Joshi, Sarang; Green, Robert O.; Duren, Riley M.; Thompson, David R.; Roberts, Dar A.
- Abstract
This study evaluates a new generation of satellite imaging spectrometers to measure point source methane emissions from anthropogenic sources. We used the Airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Next Generation(AVIRIS-NG) images with known methane plumes to create two simulated satellite products. One simulation had a 30 m spatial resolution with ~200 Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) in the Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) and the other had a 60 m spatial resolution with ~400 SNR in the SWIR; both products had a 7.5 nm spectral spacing. We applied a linear matched filter with a sparsity prior and an albedo correction to detect and quantify the methane emission in the original AVIRIS-NG images and in both satellite simulations. We also calculated an emission flux for all images. We found that all methane plumes were detectable in all satellite simulations. The flux calculations for the simulated satellite images correlated well with the calculated flux for the original AVIRIS-NG images. We also found that coarsening spatial resolution had the largest impact on the sensitivity of the results. These results suggest that methane detection and quantification of point sources will be possible with the next generation of satellite imaging spectrometers.
- Subjects
REMOTE-sensing images; SPECTROMETERS; METHANE; INFRARED imaging; MATCHED filters
- Publication
Remote Sensing, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 24, p3054
- ISSN
2072-4292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rs11243054