Remote Sensing of Greenhouse Gas Emissions II

Dear Colleagues,

The remote sensing of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the Earth’s surface provides possibilities for quantifying GHG fluxes, as well as their regional and global budgets, trends, spatial distributions, and seasonality. Observations of GHGs and other atmospheric tracers enable the quantification and evaluation of these compounds, originating from both anthropogenic and natural processes, and inform atmospheric chemistry. Remote sensing observations of vegetation activities and hydrological and cryospheric status on land, such as vegetation type, greenness, leaf area, precipitation, inundation, soil moisture, and snow and ice, can provide valuable information about ecosystem states. Current developments can also reveal emissions due to human activities at high resolutions, identifying point sources. The assimilation of Earth Observation (EO) data into models opens possibilities for novel modelling approaches and avenues for reducing uncertainties in GHG flux estimates.

This Special Issue invites contributions that present remote sensing applications providing the means for GHG flux quantifications, including (but not limited to) GHG sources and sinks inferred from satellites’ GHG and EO data, the utilization of those data in process-based land ecosystems modelling and atmospheric inverse modelling, variations in the atmospheric abundance of carbon gases, and the application of multiple tracers from satellite platforms.

This Special Issue is the second edition of the Special Issue “Remote Sensing of Greenhouse Gas Emissions”.

Dr. Aki Tsuruta
Dr. Tuula Aalto
Guest Editors

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