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Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming. Accurate detection of methane emissions is the key to taking timely action and minimizing their impact on climate change. We present AttMetNet, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Rakib Ahsan , MD Sadik Hossain Shanto , Md Sultanul Arifin , Tanzima Hashem

As global warming intensifies, increased attention is being paid to monitoring fugitive methane emissions and detecting gas plumes from landfills. We have divided methane emission monitoring into three subtasks: methane concentration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Guoxin Si , Shiliang Fu , Wei Yao

This paper tackles the challenging problem of detecting methane plumes, a potent greenhouse gas, using Sentinel-2 imagery. This contributes to the mitigation of rapid climate change. We propose a novel deep learning solution based on U-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Khai Duc Minh Tran , Hoa Van Nguyen , Aimuni Binti Muhammad Rawi , Hareeshrao Athinarayanarao , Ba-Ngu Vo

Prioritizing methane for near-term climate action is crucial due to its significant impact on global warming. Previous work used columnwise matched filter products from the airborne AVIRIS-NG imaging spectrometer to detect methane plume…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Vassiliki Mancoridis , Brian Bue , Jake H. Lee , Andrew K. Thorpe , Daniel Cusworth , Alana Ayasse , Philip G. Brodrick , Riley Duren

Effective cloud and cloud shadow detection is a critical prerequisite for accurate retrieval of concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4) or other trace gases in hyperspectral remote sensing. This challenge is especially pertinent for…

Anthropogenic methane (CH4) point sources drive near-term climate forcing, safety hazards, and system inefficiencies. Space-based imaging spectroscopy is emerging as a tool for identifying emissions globally, but existing approaches largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Vishal V. Batchu , Michelangelo Conserva , Alex Wilson , Anna M. Michalak , Varun Gulshan , Philip G. Brodrick , Andrew K. Thorpe , Christopher V. Arsdale

Continuous and global detection of large methane emissions is a crucial step for global warming mitigation. Satellite observations, such as from S5P/TROPOMI, combined with plume detection algorithms, can play a key role in this effort.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Solomiia Kurchaba , Joannes D. Maasakkers , Berend J. Schuit , Ilse Aben

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and detecting its leaks early via hyperspectral satellite imagery can help mitigate climate change. Meanwhile, many existing missions operate in manual tasking regimes only, thus missing potential events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jonáš Herec , Vít Růžička , Rado Pitoňák

The new generation of hyperspectral imagers, such as PRISMA, has improved significantly our detection capability of methane (CH4) plumes from space at high spatial resolution (30m). We present here a complete framework to identify CH4…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Alexis Groshenry , Clement Giron , Thomas Lauvaux , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Thibaud Ehret

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and a major driver of climate change, making its timely detection critical for effective mitigation. Machine learning (ML) deployed onboard satellites can enable rapid detection while reducing downlink…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Maggie Chen , Hala Lamdouar , Luca Marini , Laura Martínez-Ferrer , Chris Bridges , Giacomo Acciarini

Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, and its short atmospheric half-life makes it a prime target to rapidly curb global warming. However, current methane emission monitoring techniques primarily rely on approximate emission…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Bertrand Rouet-Leduc , Thomas Kerdreux , Alexandre Tuel , Claudia Hulbert

We present a lightweight post-processing method to refine the semantic segmentation results of point cloud sequences. Most existing methods usually segment frame by frame and encounter the inherent ambiguity of the problem: based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yutaka Momma , Weimin Wang , Edgar Simo-Serra , Satoshi Iizuka , Ryosuke Nakamura , Hiroshi Ishikawa

The major driver of global warming has been identified as the anthropogenic release of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from industrial activities. The quantitative monitoring of these emissions is mandatory to fully understand their effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Michael Mommert , Mario Sigel , Marcel Neuhausler , Linus Scheibenreif , Damian Borth

Mitigating anthropogenic methane sources is one of the most cost-effective levers to slow down global warming. While satellite-based imaging spectrometers, such as EMIT, PRISMA, and EnMAP, can detect these point sources, current methane…

Efficient segmentation of smoke plumes is crucial for environmental monitoring and industrial safety, enabling the detection and mitigation of harmful emissions from activities like quarry blasts and wildfires. Accurate segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Xuesong Liu , Emmett J. Ientilucci

Methane ($CH_4$) is a potent anthropogenic greenhouse gas, contributing 86 times more to global warming than Carbon Dioxide ($CO_2$) over 20 years, and it also acts as an air pollutant. Given its high radiative forcing potential and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Enno Tiemann , Shanyu Zhou , Alexander Kläser , Konrad Heidler , Rochelle Schneider , Xiao Xiang Zhu

The strong radiative forcing by atmospheric methane has stimulated interest in identifying natural and anthropogenic sources of this potent greenhouse gas. Point sources are important targets for quantification, and anthropogenic targets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Markus D. Foote , Philip E. Dennison , Andrew K. Thorpe , David R. Thompson , Siraput Jongaramrungruang , Christian Frankenberg , Sarang C. Joshi

Training a modern deep neural network on massive labeled samples is the main paradigm in solving the scene classification problem for remote sensing, but learning from only a few data points remains a challenge. Existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Haifeng Li , Zhenqi Cui , Zhiqing Zhu , Li Chen , Jiawei Zhu , Haozhe Huang , Chao Tao

Many remote sensing applications employ masking of pixels in satellite imagery for subsequent measurements. For example, estimating water quality variables, such as Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Rangel Daroya , Luisa Vieira Lucchese , Travis Simmons , Punwath Prum , Tamlin Pavelsky , John Gardner , Colin J. Gleason , Subhransu Maji

High-resolution spatiotemporal simulations effectively capture the complexities of atmospheric plume dispersion in complex terrain. However, their high computational cost makes them impractical for applications requiring rapid responses or…

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