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Carbon Mapper Shares How Tanager-1 Data is Driving Methane Emissions Transparency and Mitigation Action at 2025 AGU Meeting

Published on: Dec 08, 2025

Carbon Mapper will join thousands of participants at this year’s annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting to help advance Earth and space sciences.

Attended by scientists, NGOs, journalists and educators, the annual meeting brings together more than 25,000 attendees representing over 100 countries to present their unique work and findings. Held on December 15-19, 2025, in New Orleans, this year’s conference theme is “Where Science Connects Us.”

Hosted at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (900 Convention Center Blvd), Carbon Mapper team members will take part in various sessions as lead authors and co-authors. This includes sharing important research and perspectives on the impact of methane emissions, the critical role played by remote sensing and satellite monitoring and how Tanager-1 data is helping drive methane emissions transparency and mitigation efforts.

Carbon Mapper will have an active presence at the event, featuring a kiosk and offering data portal demonstrations. Please visit us in the Exhibit Hall at Booth #1065 on Monday, Dec. 15 through Thursday, Dec. 18 of AGU week.

Carbon Mapper Presentations & Posters

Monday December 15

A11G-07 Validating and characterizing performance of satellite-based methane point source emission quantification with Tanager

Time: 09:30 - 09:40

Location: 272-273 (NOLA CC)

Tuesday December 16

GC23M-0851 Improving source attribution within national to regional methane budgets using facility-level data and hyperspectral imaging spectrometers

Time: 14:15 - 17:45

Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (New Orleans Convention Center)

GC23L-0825 A framework for validating and implementing quantitative plume metrics for satellite point source observations at scale

Time: 14:15 - 17:45

Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (New Orleans Convention Center)

GC23M-0850 Informing landfill emission reporting models using airborne and satellite remote sensing

Time: 14:15 - 17:45

Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (New Orleans Convention Center)

Wednesday December 17

B32A-01 Carbon Mapper: operational monitoring in support of methane mitigation programs

Time: 10:35 - 10:45

Location: 255-257 (NOLA CC)

Description: Here we present preliminary results of efforts to move beyond intensive field campaigns with aircraft to sustained operational monitoring from space in support of leak detection and repair programs in major oil and gas production basins across the US including California and other key jurisdictions. We summarize findings from efforts to use observations from the Tanager-1 and EMIT satellites to rapidly notify regulators and facility operators of potential leaks as well as feedback from operators on causes of the detected emissions and any follow-up action.

A32C-07 Automated Detection of Methane Plumes in Tanager Hyperspectral Imagery Using SpecTF, a Transformer-based Deep Learning Algorithm

Time: 11:35 - 11:45

Location: 270 (NOLA CC)

A33G-2236 Combining matched-filter and bayesian estimation algorithms to reduce bias in methane point-source retrievals

Time: 14:15 - 17:45

Location: Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (New Orleans Convention Center)

Thursday December 18

A43L-01 Carbon Mapper: greenhouse gas measurement performance and findings from Tanager-1

Time: 14:20 - 14:30

Location: 228-230 (New Orleans Convention Center)

Description: We summarize Carbon Mapper status and plans including a representative global CH4 monitoring strategy using Planet’s planned constellation of 4 Tanager satellites. We present key findings and an updated assessment of Tanager-1 CH4 and CO2 emissions detection and quantification performance including intercomparison with contemporaneous aircraft under-flights and controlled release testing during the first year of operations. Finally, we provide an update on Carbon Mapper efforts to support CH4 mitigation programs in key jurisdictions.

SY44A-03 Super-emitter intensities across global oil & gas basins

Time: 16:46 - 16:57

Location: 346-347 (New Orleans Convention Center)

Description: Here we show Carbon Mapper’s progress in mapping super-emitter distributions and quantifying super-emitter intensities through intensive tasking of the Tanager-1 satellite of the majority of oil&gas infrastructure across key oil&gas producing countries. With 30-m spatial resolution of Tanager-1, we attribute each detection to facility and equipment type, allowing for better understanding of drivers of intensities and how those drivers vary across basins. Significant distributions of super-emitters are routinely detected in Tanager-1 across difficult to observe environments (e.g., high latitude, snow-covered), allowing for increased transparency of emission sources in regions that have been typically under-observed. Building a more complete global picture of super-emitters with attribution to infrastructure will aid in constructing mitigation roadmaps for lower-intensity energy.