GFS3 "Identification of gas flares and quantification of their emissions using Sentinel-3 SLSTR"

Flaring is an oxidation process used to dispose off unwanted gases that is extensively used in the upstream oil and gas industry. Besides wasting a resource, flaring contributes to global warming mainly by emitting methane and carbon dioxide, as well as black carbon (BC), a known carcinogenic which also has direct and indirect radiative effects. It was estimated that gas flaring is the major emitter of BC at high latitudes. BC may deposit onto highly reflective snowy/icy surfaces and alter their reflective properties.

Available data on gas flares is sparse, uncertain, and relies on reporting and mass balance, with different methodologies showing large discrepancies and diverging trends. Therefore, it is important to use observations by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites to improve our the monitoring of gas flaring.

Peer-reviewed publication:

• A Methodology for Gas Flaring Detection and Characterisation Using SLSTR (submitted to Remote Sensing, preprint).

Oral presentations:

• Monitoring of gas flaring using Sentinel-3 SLSTR Alexandre Caseiro, Johannes W. Kaiser, Gernot Rücker, Joachim Tiemann, David Leimbach, ESA Sentinel-3A Fourth Validation Team Meeting 2018, Darmstadt, Germany.
  
  
• Gas flaring detection, characterisation and emissions assessment from Sentinel-3 SLSTR Alexandre Caseiro, Joannes W. Kaiser, Gernot Ruecker, Joachim Tiemann, David Leimbach, Eckehard Lorenz, 18^thGEIA (Global Emissions Initiative) conference, 2017, Hamburg, Germany.
  
  
• Gas flare detection with Sentinel-3, including night-time acquisition in S1-S4. Alexandre Caseiro, Gernot Rücker, Johannes W. Kaiser, Eckehart Lorenz, Olaf Frauenberger, ESA Sentinel-3A Validation Team Meeting 2017, Frascati, Italy.
  
  
• Gas flare detection and characterisation with Sentinel-3 and comparison to FireBird. Gernot Rücker, Alexandre Caseiro, Johannes W. Kaiser, Eckehard Lorenz, Olaf Frauenberger, ISRSE 2017.
  
  
• Chasing gas flares with SLSTR. Alexandre Caseiro, Gernot Rücker, Eckehart Lorenz, Johannes W. Kaiser, ESA Sentinel-3A Expert Users Meeting 2016, Frascati, Italy.
  
  
• Identification of gas flares using FireBIRD data in combination with Sentinel-3. Alexandre Caseiro, Johannes W. Kaiser, Angelika Heil, Gernot Rücker, DLR First Scientific FireBIRD Workshop 2015 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.

Posters:

• Estimation of the gas flaring emissions using Sentinel-3A's SLSTR Alexandre Caseiro, Johannes W. Kaiser, Gernot Ruecker, Joachim Tiemann, David Leimbach, Eckehard Lorenz, EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2017, Rome, Italy.
  
  
• Gas flare characterisation with Sentinel-3 Alexandre Caseiro, Johannes Kaiser, Angelika Heil, Gernot Rücker, Joachim Tiemann, and David Leimbach, EGU General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria.
  
  
• Identification of gas flares and quantification of their emissions using Sentinel3 SLSTR. Alexandre Caseiro, Johannes W. Kaiser, Angelika Heil, Gernot Ruecker, ESA – Living Planet Symposium 2016 Prague, Czech Republic.
  
  
• Detection and characterisation of small, hot fires: Comparing FireBird, S-NPP VIIRS and MODIS over gas flares. G. Ruecker, W. Schroeder, E. Lorenz, J. Kaiser, A. Caseiro, EGU General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria
  
  
• Deriving a relationship between the radiative power and the SWIR radiance for Gas Flares. Alexandre Caseiro, Johannes Kaiser, Angelika Heil, Gernot Rücker, Joachim Tiemann, and David Leimbach, EGU General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria
  
  
• Identification of Gas Flares by means of BIRD images. Alexandre Caseiro, Johannes W. Kaiser, Angelika Heil, Gernot Rücker, Joachim Tiemann, and David Leimbach, 17^thGlobal Emissions Initiative (GEIA) conference 2015, Beijing, China.
  
  
• Quantification of emissions from industrial gas flares.G. Ruecker, J. Kaiser, J. Tiemann, DLR Sentinel Applications Workshop 2015, Bonn, Germany.

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