Tanager-1 is at Vandenberg Space Force Base in preparation for its launch as early as July! 🚀 This is the first of two satellites being developed and deployed by Planet and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory through the Carbon Mapper Coalition, a philanthropically-funded partnership led by Carbon Mapper. 🛰 Tanager-1 is designed and optimized to detect methane and CO2 super-emitters from space. Its observations will help Carbon Mapper generate data and insights to fill gaps in society’s current understanding of human-caused emissions at specific sources so they can be stopped. This is an exciting step as we countdown to launching this satellite into space and scale up data to action! https://lnkd.in/gcCNR9iU #CutMethane #Climate #EmissionsData
I am visiting USA; apart from my EO interests from spectral point of view; I also have passion of watching birds. I am amazed to see the walking trails around Austin are invaded by "Summer Tanagers" .... a natural compulsion to live and spread these species. I wish the same for this TANAGER to live and go beyond the expectations to solve the human crisis of climate change. We, humans; can't just tur into CONSUMERS (energy); may be... the time has come to take a step back and think. This "tanager" is certainly going to open our eues.
This will be very important in detecting and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions - very exciting that Tanager-1 will be launching soon!
Best of luck!
Exciting times!
Dept. Remote sensing systems at SRTI-BAS
2wIs this mission only for North America territories?