Space Challenge 2023 - Resources

Resources

Resources for “Space for Planet Earth Problem Statement

The lists in the sub menus provide links to some initial references related to the methane challenge problem statement. If you know of other useful resources, please send them to us at [email protected] so we can add them to these lists.

General

15 Free Satellite Imagery Data Sources

MethaneSAT

Methane Emission Measurement and Monitoring Methods

Global Methane Tracker 2023

UN Environment Program Resources on Methane

Kyrros Methane Watch

Articles

UN announces high-tech, satellite-based global methane detection system

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/un-announces-high-tech-satellite-based-global-methane-detection

Japanese Methane monitoring satellite

https://www.gosat.nies.go.jp/recent-global-ch4.html

“Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane”, Jacob, Daniel J., et al., Volume 22, issue 14, ACP, 22, 9617–9646, 2022

https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/9617/2022/

“GHGSat unveils free global methane map”, 2020

https://spacenews.com/ghgsat-unveils-free-global-methane-map/

“Exxon Broke Rules With Late Reporting of Permian Methane Leak”, Bloomberg, 1 March 2023

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-01/exxon-broke-rules-with-late-reporting-of-permian-methane-leak

“Why Methane Surged in 2020”, NASA Earth Observatory

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150967/why-methane-surged-in-2020

(The article has links to other sources, including NOAA)

“IEA to use GHGSat data in globally recognized methane tracker”, GHGSat press release, Feb 2023

https://www.ghgsat.com/en/newsroom/iea-to-use-ghgsat-data-in-globally-recognized-methane-tracker/

“This Five-Mile-Long Cloud of Methane Was Spotted Over Wyoming”, Feb 2023

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-31/big-gas-cloud-seen-over-us-state-where-small-releases-reported

“New Mexico Investigates Permian Basin Methane Cloud Spotted by Satellite”, 31 Jan 2023

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/new-mexico-investigates-methane-cloud-spotted-by-satellite

“Climate change: WMO unveils plans for sustainable monitoring of greenhouse gases”, UN News, Feb 2023

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/02/1133047

“UN signs deal for satellite methane monitoring”, The Engineer, 20 Jan 2023

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/un-signs-deal-for-satellite-methane-monitoring/

“A new way to spot methane leaks globally”, Phys.org, Jan 2023

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-methane-leaks-globally.html

“Understanding the potential of Sentinel-2 for monitoring methane point emissions”, Jan 2023

https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/16/89/2023/

Organisations

UN Climate Change

https://unfccc.int

https://twitter.com/UNFCCC

UN Climate Change – Greenhouse Gas Data Interface

https://di.unfccc.int/time_series

International Energy Agency (IEA) Global Methane Tracker 2023

https://www.iea.org/events/global-methane-tracker-2023

UN Environment Program

https://www.unep.org/resources/annual-report-2022

Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0

https://www.ogmpartnership.com

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) – cosponsor of Global Climate Observing System

https://public.wmo.int/en/programmes/global-climate-observing-system

Kayrros Methane Watch

https://www.kayrros.com/methane-watch/

(global commercial company based in London, selling methane monitoring as a service)

Methane Alert and Response System (MARS)

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/un-announces-high-tech-satellite-based-global-methane-detection

International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO)

https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/energy/what-we-do/imeo

https://twitter.com/MethaneData

Global Methane Hub

https://www.globalmethanehub.org

https://twitter.com/Gmethanehub

(The Global Methane Hub. A philanthropic fund to support methane mitigation and prevent global warming. Based in Chile.)

“An Eye on Methane: International Methane Emissions Observatory 2022 Report”, Oct 2022

https://www.unep.org/resources/report/eye-methane-international-methane-emissions-observatory-2022-report

“UN’s MARS program launches methane detection into the Space Age”, EDF, Nov 2022

https://www.edf.org/blog/2022/11/14/un-mars-program-launches-methane-detection-space-age

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