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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.

  

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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BIRA-IASB Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy TNO KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute VITO Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek