Detecting Ship Emissions from Space

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  • Shipping emissions are globally responsible for around 400 000 premature deaths.
  • Since January 2020, the maximum sulphur dioxide content of ship fuels was globally reduced to 0.5%
  • Scientists detect nitrogen dioxide plumes from individual ships from space using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite.
  • Scientist use ‘sun glint’ satellite data over the ocean to observe ship emission plumes.

Scientists use data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite to detect nitrogen dioxide plumes...

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