High resolution mapping of methane emissions from marine and terrestrial sources using a Cluster-Tuned Matched Filter technique and imaging spectrometry

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 134, Issue , 2013, Pages 305-318

  Thorpe, Andrew K ^a   Roberts, Dar A ^a   Bradley, Eliza S ^a   Funk, Christopher C ^a   Dennison, Philip E ^b   Leifer, Ira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne visible infrared imaging spectrometer; AVIRIS; CH4; Cluster Tuned matched filter; Coal oil point seep field; Emissions; Fugitive; Greenhouse gas; Hydrocarbons; La brea tar pits; Los Angeles; Mapping; Methane; Plume; Trace gas

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETER; AVIRIS; CH4; COAL OIL POINTS; FUGITIVE; LOS ANGELES; PLUME; TRACE GAS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE GASES; HYDROCARBONS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; MAPPING; MATCHED FILTERS; METHANE; NITROGEN OXIDES; OIL FIELDS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SEEPAGE; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; TAR;

GAS EMISSIONS;

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; AVIRIS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; COAL TAR; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROCARBON RESERVE; METHANE; OIL FIELD; OIL SEEP; SEEPAGE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRACE GAS;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876342858     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.03.018     Document Type: Article

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