Satellite Technology Landfill Methane Detection: How GHGSat Sees What Ground Crews Can’t

What the Webinar Covers

GHGSat’s Jason McKeever (Director of Science and Systems) and Krish Kataria (Director of Global Industry) spend close to an hour unpacking the full technical picture behind satellite technology landfill methane detection. Register to watch and hear:

• How GHGSat’s satellites actually detect methane from 500 km above the Earth—the absorption spectrometry behind every concentration map, explained from first principles
• Why spatial resolution drives detection limit far more than most operators realize, and what the difference between 25-meter satellite resolution and 1-meter aircraft resolution means for finding emissions other tools miss
• How GHGSat validates its technology through controlled release testing, including single-blind third-party experiments and what the detection probability curve actually looks like at different wind speeds
• The real quantification accuracy data: how close GHGSat’s estimates land to known release rates, and why wind modeling is the primary source of uncertainty
• How satellite and aircraft data work together including a side-by-side example from the same landfill showing one large emission from space versus 23 individual emissions from the air
• How operators are starting to combine emissions data with topography, operational data, and weather information to build predictive insight using AI and machine learning
• Live Q&A covering annual inventory modeling, cross-sector emissions comparisons, data confidentiality, and how overlapping plumes and complex topography are handled