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Shipping emissions

Shipping emissions monitoring screens vessel-related NOx, SOx, and particulate pollution through atmospheric column enhancements, plume patterns, and correlation with maritime activity.[1][2][3]

Sentinel-5P TROPOMI measures atmospheric trace gases including NO2 and SO2 in UV-visible and SWIR bands and supports shipping air-pollution screening.[1]

Shipping-lane NO2 signals can be extracted from TROPOMI data, but robust detection usually relies on filtering, aggregation, and correlation with route patterns rather than single-pixel attribution.[2][3]

Individual-vessel emission attribution is harder than lane or port screening because wind, plume dispersion, background pollution, and revisit timing confound the signal.[2][3]

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2 Data products
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31 Sensors
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Data products
Open CAMS Global Atmospheric Composition Forecast
Open Sentinel-5P TROPOMI L2 Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)
Advanced Baseline Imager GOES-16
Advanced Himawari Imager Himawari-9
Atmospheric Infrared Ultra-spectral spectrometer Gaofen-5 (GF-5)
Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) DSCOVR
ECOSTRESS (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station) ECOSTRESS ISS deployment
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
IKFS-2 Infrared Fourier Spectrometer Meteor-M N2-4
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer - New Generation Metop-SG-A1
Infrared Multispectral Scanner - 2 Huan Jing-2A
INSAT-3DR Sounder INSAT-3DR
INSAT-3DS Sounder INSAT-3DS
MLS (Microwave Limb Sounder) Aura
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
OMPS (Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite) Suomi NPP
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
Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager DMSP-F18
Special Sensor Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager DMSP-F18
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)
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