Methods for global survey of natural gas flaring from visible infrared imaging radiometer suite data

Energies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Elvidge, Christopher D ^a   Zhizhin, Mikhail ^b,c   Baugh, Kimberly ^b   Hsu, Feng Chi ^b   Ghosh, Tilottama ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Russian Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide emissions; Carbon intensity; Gas flaring; Nightfire; Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; INFRARED DEVICES; NASA; NATURAL GAS; RADIOMETERS; SURVEYS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CARBON INTENSITY; GAS FLARING; NIGHTFIRE; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

GAS EMISSIONS;

EID: 84956647681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en9010014     Document Type: Article

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