A first of its kind consortium of more than 30 leading research and science institutions has been backed by £6.5 million to help provide all four UK governments with rapid response evidence on addressing land use as a major greenhouse gas emitter.
Space Park Leicester to collaborate with Bahrain to investigate utilising space technologies for monitoring air quality in Bahrain and the Gulf region in an attempt to proactively monitor greenhouse gas emissions.
Scientists from the University of Leicester have used data – generated by the University of Bremen – from the Tropomi instrument onboard Sentinel-5P to observe methane concentrations associated with key mining regions across Poland and demonstrate whether the satellite can capture coal mining emissions.
