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Emissions of pollutants to the ambient environment are at the origin of
atmospheric pollution issues. Emission inventories provide important information
on magnitude, type of activity, time evolution and the spatial coverage of the
estimated emissions. These inventories are developed for use in scientific
applications as input in urban, regional, continental or global scale models,
and for use by policy makers in order to evaluate progress towards emission
abatement measures, and decide on future strategies. |
Within the GlobEmission project (part of Data User Element programme of
ESA) inversion algorithms were developed to derive emissions from satellite observations.
The main advantage of these emission estimates are the spatial consistency, high temporal
resolution and the rapid availability of these estimates to the user.
African Emissions (IMPALA project)
Within the new ESA project IMPALA satellite-derived emissions are developed for the African continent.
The derived emissions comprise methane, soil NO, anthropogenic NOx, and biogenic hydrocarbons. These emissions
are derived from observations of the TROPOMI instrument on board of the Sentinel-5p satellite.
The IMPALA project (2023-2024) is implemented by KNMI and BIRA-IASB.
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The GlobEmission project started at October 2011. GlobEmission is a consortium of
KNMI (The Netherlands),
BIRA-IASB (Belgium),
FMI (Finland),
TNO (The Netherlands), and
VITO (Belgium).
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