Industrial emissions monitoring detects gas plumes, pollutant columns, heat signatures, flaring activity, and facility context for refineries, smelters, power plants, and other industrial sites.^[1]^[2]^[3] SWIR imaging spectroscopy detects and quantifies large methane point-source plumes and supports facility or sector attribution under suitable observing conditions.^[1]^[2] CO2M-class greenhouse-gas missions combine CO2, CH4, NO2, ground measurements, and modelling to separate anthropogenic emissions from natural sources.^[4] UV-VIS tropospheric NO2 and SO2 products support industrial and air-quality emissions mapping at coarser spatial scales than facility-resolution plume imaging.^[3] Thermal anomaly detection identifies flaring, combustion heat, and high-temperature industrial activity proxies rather than direct gas-emission rates.^[3]

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2 Data products

1 Services

24 Sensors

2 open

Data products

Open Carbon Mapper Methane Plume Detections (L4)

Open Sentinel-5P TROPOMI L2 Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)

Services & platforms — 1

GHGSat DATA.SAT Methane Emissions Data GHGSat Inc.

Advanced Baseline Imager GOES-16

Advanced Himawari Imager Himawari-9

Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) DSCOVR

ECOSTRESS (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station) ECOSTRESS ISS deployment

EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation Imaging Spectrometer) —

Environment Monitoring Instrument Gaofen-5 (GF-5)

Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) Meteosat-12

FY-4A Advanced Geostationary Radiation Imager FY-4A

FY-4B Advanced Geostationary Radiation Imager FY-4B

Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) GEO-KOMPSAT-2B

Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder-2 FY-4B

Greenhouse-gases Monitoring Instrument (GF-5) Gaofen-5 (GF-5)

Infrared Multispectral Scanner - 2 Huan Jing-2A

MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) Terra

MSU-GS Electro-L Imager Electro-L N4

MSU-IK-SR Kanopus-V

MSU-MR VIS/IR Imaging Radiometer Meteor-M N2-4

Prototype Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder FY-4A

Sentinel-4 UVN sounder Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 (MTG-S1)

Sentinel-5 UVNS sounder Metop-SG-A1

SLSTR (Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer) Sentinel-3A

Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager Meteosat-10

Total Anthropogenic and Natural emissions mapping SpectrOmeter-3 (TANSO-3) GOSAT-GW (IBUKI GW)

TROPOMI (TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument) Sentinel-5P (Precursor)

Sources

[1]U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center EMIT methane point-source plume productagency doc2026-05-27
[2]NASA EMIT greenhouse gas emissions science team projectagency doc2026-05-27
[3]EUMETSAT CO2M mission overviewagency doc2026-05-27
[4]Copernicus Sentinel-5P atmospheric composition productsagency doc2026-05-27

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Industrial emissions. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V., last reviewed 2026-05-27. https://eo-atlas.org/topics/industrial-emissions (CC BY 4.0)

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@misc{eoatlas:topics:industrial-emissions,
  title = {Industrial emissions},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Last reviewed 2026-05-27. CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/topics/industrial-emissions}
}