Technology giant Google and environmental organization Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced a partnership to identify sources of methane emissions, a powerful greenhouse gas that accelerates global warming. This has been officially reported Blog Google.
As part of the project, one of several MethanSAT satellites designed to monitor methane leaks will be launched in March 2024.
Google will provide computing power to process information and will also provide pipelines, fuel tanks, etc. It will map oil and gas facilities using artificial intelligence to automatically identify infrastructure. This will help you understand which nodes leak gas most often.
“Once we have a complete map of the infrastructure, we can overlay MethanSAT data showing where the methane is coming from. When the two maps are combined, we can see how emissions correspond to specific infrastructures and better understand the types of sources that typically contribute the most to methane leaks. This information is often the most susceptible to leaks.” is incredibly valuable for predicting and reducing emissions from existing oil and gas infrastructure,” Google said.
Satellite methane monitoring data will be publicly available on the Google Earth Engine geospatial data analysis platform.
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