Remote sensing by satellite: How satellites revolutionize data collection and analysis
GHGSat provides accurate, cost-efficient remote sensing by satellite, delivering detailed insights on greenhouse gas emissions. As a global leader in high-resolution remote sensing of greenhouse gases from space, GHGSat provides industrial operators, governments and financial institutions with unique emissions data and intelligence to help organizations optimize their performance and uphold environmental standards.
Emission monitoring using satellites offers several benefits compared to more traditional ground-based methods. With a remote technology solution, there are no on-site deployment costs and no risk of exposing an on-site engineer to safety and health hazards. With a growing constellation of satellites, GHGSat can offer operators frequent overpasses of a particular site. Given the field of view of each GHGSat satellite is 12km*12km, we can also observe multiple sites in one observation, particularly in areas densely populated with facilities such as the Permian Basin.
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What is remote sensing technology?
Remote sensing refers to acquiring information and data regarding territory and phenomena without needing direct contact. Different kinds of techniques are associated with remote sensing, such as “active” remote sensing. This refers to a signal directly emitted by an aircraft or satellite, then reflected by an object and ultimately detected by a sensor such as LiDAR or RADAR.
Today, remote sensing technology improves our understanding of climate change and its effects on our planet. It offers us the opportunity to successfully monitor the Earth’s surface and atmosphere in a variety of scales safely.
Remote sensing technology is one of the safest technologies as it does not involve direct contact with the environment or object being studied. Instead, remote sensing uses satellites, airplanes, and ground-based sensors to detect and measure the characteristics of the target environment or object. This radiation includes non-ionizing radiation.
Non-ionizing radiation has lower energy levels than its ionizing counterparts and does not have enough energy to ionize atoms and cause harm to living organisms, such as infrared. Remote sensing instruments are also designed to operate to comply with safety regulations.
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How GHGSat uses remote sensing technology
Remote sensing from space provides an opportunity to advance the world’s understanding of greenhouse gas emissions, and take appropriate action to reduce them.
GHGSat is the world leader in high-resolution remote sensing of greenhouse gas emissions from space. GHGSat pioneered high-resolution methane emissions sensing technology from space. We developed the first sensor for small satellites that can detect methane (CH4) emissions and locate individual sources of CH4 from around 500 km above the Earth’s surface – a huge leap forward in global emissions monitoring technology innovation.
GHGSat’s constellation of satellites circle the Earth in a sun-synchronous polar orbit at around 500 kms above the surface of the Earth. A polar orbit is where each satellite travels in a north to south pattern passing over or near the Earth’s poles taking approximately 90 minutes for a full rotation of the planet. Sun-synchronous means the satellites are synchronized to be in a fixed position relative to the sun. This means that the satellites operate in almost consistent light each time it’s overhead and this is critical for satellites that image the Earth using infrared wavelengths.
Providing the best quality remote sensing satellite technology is just one part of the GHGSat’s offering. The precision emissions data from remote sensing satellites can be transformed into actionable insights to help customers optimize their operations, reduce emissions and uphold environmental standards. Some of the services offered by GHGSat include:
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DATA.SAT: Our customer satellite constellation from space identifies point sources of methane emissions down to the individual facility. This technology provides accurate detection, measurement and year-round monitoring of methane emissions. The GHGSat satellites provide consistent and reliable intelligence on methane emissions data to organizations, governments and regulators worldwide.
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Global Survey: Leverage third-party and public satellite data near industrial sites. Be the first to know if monitored facilities are emitting methane detectable by public satellites with GHGSat’s Global Survey service.
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SPECTRA: Measuring and managing methane emissions requires a fully integrated view of your data. SPECTRA centralizes all of GHGSat’s products and services into a clean and intuitive interface to allow for easy emissions data management and communication.
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How businesses can grow with emissions intelligence technology
GHGSat remote sensing satellite technology and emissions data analytics empowers carbon intensive industries, sectors and governments to achieve emission reduction goals and lower their carbon footprint.
By measuring emissions, operators are able to better manage them and do their part in fighting climate change. The tracking and reporting of emissions also helps businesses increase transparency to investors, shareholders and clients while increasing production efficiency and lowering unnecessary energy costs.
GHGSat’s remote sensing satellite technology is able to measure, monitor and our data empowers organizations to identify opportunities to mitigate emissions. With remote sensing technology and accurate data analytics, organizations are able to receive actionable metrics and insights that are vital to environmental, production and financial decisions making.
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Get in touch today
As a leading-edge space and data technology company, GHGSat’s remote sensing satellite technology helps accelerate the decarbonization of our planet. Through advanced emission monitoring solutions and analytics tools, we provide actionable metrics and insights that empower your business to grow.
With evolving climate dynamics, we thrive to collaborate with the global communities to share our expertise and create a compelling perspective for the future of humanity.
Discover the power of satellite data to accurately track your carbon footprint from anywhere in the world, with GHGSat. Contact us today.
