One goal is to do a fine grained global census, just to see what we are confronting: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/9617/2022/ https://acp.copernicus.o

One goal is to do a fine grained global census, just to see what we are confronting: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/9617/2022/ https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/9617/2022/ Previously, a high quality census was done of California and it turned up a nice separation into source categories (e.g., oil/gas extraction, gas transport, dairies, landfills): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1720-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1720-3 This was very impactful and influenced legislation and further measurement. The lead author is the CEO of the nonprofit that coordinated launch of this satellite. He’s been involved in the fundamentals of this measurement for many years, including his time as a lead system engineer at JPL.