NASA’s PACE climate satellite with the Dutch instrument SPEXone onboard now offers the world access to satellite images distinguishing types and sizes of aerosols. SPEXone also measures the extent to which aerosols absorb and reflect sunlight.
The new Dutch TANGO satellites will soon be able to detect sources of greenhouse gases. For example, power plants, coal plants, landfills and factories. As a result, scientists will soon be able to detect 75% of the methane emitted by humans worldwide. That figure was 5% so far using TROPOMI. ESA has approved the TANGO mission.
The Netherlands is now able to make a big impact on the inventory of the greenhouse gas methane released into the atmosphere by humans. And consequently, in the understanding of where we can most rapidly address this worldwide.
On 8 November 2022 from 9:30 to 11:00 local time (Sharm El-Sheikh) Clear Air held the event Dutch Satellite Innovations for Supporting Climate Action on the United Nations COP27 climate conference in Egypt.
The KNMI, TNO, SRON and Delft University of Technology will collaborate on research and technology development in the field of earth observation. The creation of the ‘Clear Air’ consortium intends to strengthen the prominent knowledge position of the Netherlands in using satellites to measure emissions and the composition of the atmosphere.
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