Sensing
Over the 15 months since March 2024, MethaneSAT has generated extraordinarily valuable data about methane emissions worldwide. The 1800 Histories of Methane project looks forward to continuing to work with this remarkable data, as well as with MethaneAIR data for the United States. We will use MethaneSAT information in many more micro-histories of methane to come.
Connor Chung, Diana Kim, Thomas Lauvaux, Oliver Riskin-Kutz, Emma Rothschild, Joule Voelz
The 1800 Histories project is collaborating with the MethaneAIR and MethaneSAT projects on a new program supported by the Salata Institute, as part of the Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions
Using Remote Sensing Data to Inform Micro-Histories of Methane-Release Sites
The project seeks to juxtapose micro-histories of the sites of methane emissions with the extraordinary potential of satellite and aircraft imaging. Its object is to understand what has been happening in locations that are of central importance to global greenhouse gas emissions, and to understand more about how emissions of methane can be reduced, including the social context. The focus will be on the upcoming flights of the new MethaneAIR remote sensing instrument for measuring methane concentrations along broad swaths of the landscape with very fine spatial resolution and high precision.