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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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)

Sources

[1]ESA TROPOMI instrument overviewagency doc-2026-05-27
[2]Improved detection of global NO2 signals from shipping in Sentinel-5P TROPOMI datapeer reviewed2025-08-202026-05-27
[3]Systematic approach to identify shipping emissions using TROPOMI datapeer reviewed2023-07-052026-05-27

How to cite this page

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

BibTeX

@misc{eoatlas:topics:shipping-emissions,
  title = {Shipping 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/shipping-emissions}
}