Quantifying gas flaring CH4 consumption using VIIRS

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 9529-9541

  Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Scheving, Beau ^b   Shoghli, Bahareh ^c   Zygarlicke, Chris ^a   Wocken, Chad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD   (United States)

^c University of North Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

Flares; Methane; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

FLARE STACKS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHANE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTION AREA; EFFICIENCY FACTOR; FIELD CONDITIONS; FLARES; MEAN RELATIVE ERROR; SATELLITE SENSORS; TOTAL SURFACE AREA;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84939442809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70809529     Document Type: Article

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