The Carbon Mapper project will use data from the NASA mission EMIT to survey waste sites for emissions of greenhouse gas.
The project will also use methane data from EMIT which was installed at the International Space Station in July with the purpose of theIn October 2022, EMIT demonstrated its capability in methane detection, spotting methane plumes from over"NASA JPL has a decade-long track record of using airborne imaging spectrometers to make high-quality observations of methane point-source emissions," Robert Green, the EMIT principal investigator at JPL, said in the NASA statement.
Following its first year, the Carbon Mapper team will begin a broader survey of around 10,000 landfill sites across the globe using satellites equipped with imaging spectrometer technology developed at JPL. These specially purposed Carbon Mapper spacecraft are set to launch in late 2023.