Real-time space observations can now keep watch over 'super emitter' power plants

Real-time space observations can now keep watch over 'superemitter' powerplants frontiersin FrontRSens

, megacities, refineries, and giant factories—together responsible for nearly half of humanity's total output of GHGs.

In late 2025 or 2026, the EU plans to launch its"CO2M" pair of satellites, whose job will be to help with this.But now, scientists have shown that such tracking at the source is already possible, even with existing satellites, for"super-emitters" like the Bełchatów plant in Poland. For this proof-of-principle, they used five years of measurements from NASA's satellite"Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2" and the instrument OCO-3, attached since 2019 to the International Space Station .at much larger spatial scales.emissions from a large power plant, with observations from existing CO-tracking satellites," said Dr.

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