With Google power and Harvard imaging technology, MethaneSAT will spot methane leaks from space

New imaging technology developed by scientists at Harvard University will soon make it possible to track methane far more efficiently and with greater resolution that ever before. With MethaneSAT data, combined with Google technology, thousands of scientists, researchers, and nonprofits will be able to trace emissions to their sources, help industry plug leaks, and hold polluters to account.

The technology undergirding MethaneSAT was developed in the lab of Steven Wofsy, the Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). 

Read more from The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.