Carbon Mapper’s Post

Tackling landfill methane presents a big opportunity to address climate change and several states are leading the way. Canary Media Inc. breaks down concrete solutions in the waste sector from Oregon, Washington, Maryland, and Michigan, which can help tackle waste emissions. It also highlights the role remote sensing technology can play in scaling efforts nationally. Thanks for the shout out to our team’s latest research in Science Magazine and the great work by our partners at Industrious Labs! Read more ➡ https://lnkd.in/gTzwaAFs #CutMethane #WasteEmissions #Methane

We’re in for a busy and exciting summer here at Carbon Mapper! And we don’t want you to miss a single update. Subscribe to the Carbon Mapper e-newsletter and receive regular news and announcements on progress toward launching our coalition’s first satellite, our public methane and CO2 data, new emissions insights, mitigation success stories, and much much more. Join us today ➡ https://lnkd.in/g-eAuMBB

Methane-sensing satellites are on the rise (pun intended) as a key solution to addressing climate change by spotting emissions at different scales to help society better detect and understand emissions.    Now, two non-profit backed satellite programs — Environmental Defense Fund's MethaneSAT and the Carbon Mapper Coalition satellite program including Carbon Mapper, Planet, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and others — are joining the growing ecosystem of space-based technologies, bringing complementary capabilities that will yield powerful new insights on the location, quantity, and characteristics of methane so that they can be stopped.    Learn more about the unique design characteristics of each satellite and how they work together to provide public data at the different levels of granularity needed to guide critical climate decisions today.    Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gwn8NV8R #CutMethane #MethaneData

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

Ever wonder how we can ‘see’ methane? Imaging spectrometers are instruments used onboard aircraft and satellites that enable Carbon Mapper and others to identify sources of methane and CO2, and generate data and insights about these emissions. 🛰 How? Imaging spectrometers measure the hundreds of wavelengths of light reflected by the Earth’s surface and absorbed by gasses in the planet’s atmosphere. Greenhouse gasses like methane and CO2 absorb different wavelengths of light, leaving a kind of spectral fingerprint not visible to the human eye. 🌈 Learn more about this technology and how Carbon Mapper is using it to help make emissions visible and actionable in the latest post in our education series. ➡ https://lnkd.in/gMT4cm3G

It was great to participate in this year's WasteExpo and share how remote sensing technology can help inform and verify methane mitigation at landfills. If you're curious about these emissions and their sources, check out the waste emissions data available on our public portal: mhttps://lnkd.in/gpR2dAvd #WasteExpo #WasteData

We’re thrilled to have our data portal recognized as a 2024 honoree by The Webby Awards in the category “Websites and Mobile Sites Science 2024.” 🎉 Huge kudos to the talented teams at Carbon Mapper and Ode! Their collaboration on the data portal's design has resulted in a best-in-class user experience with exceptional functionality. This tool is crucial to help bridge the gap between data and action, enabling public access to frequently updated emissions data on methane and CO2 sources. We’re excited that the internet agrees and sees our portal as a unique and valuable resource! Check out the honorary winning site ➡ https://lnkd.in/gxdHkE7T

🛰️ Satellites are becoming a key player in informing climate solutions. 🌎 Our CEO Riley Duren sat down with The Conversation US to talk about how satellites are becoming a more integral part of our mitigation toolbox. Methane has a significant impact on global warming, and some remote sensing technologies are helping industry, governments and communities detect and pinpoint large emissions and super emitters for quick action. Read more about the goals of the Carbon Mapper coalition satellite program, and discover how our data supports actionable steps towards a sustainable future. ➡ https://lnkd.in/g7tXvQyu #SatelliteSolutions #EmissionsData #CutMethane