Chinese scientists have for the first time systematically mapped carbon emissions from large coal-fired power plants worldwide using satellite data.

Foreign media: Chinese scientists have for the first time used high-precision satellite data to systematically map carbon dioxide emissions from large coal-fired power plants around the world, finding that existing databases generally underestimate emission levels.

The study covers the world's largest coal-fired power plant - China's Tuoketuo Power Plant and the United States' most polluted James H. Miller Power Plant. The findings were published on June 9 in the "Journal of Cleaner Production". Led by a team from the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the study proposed an optimized model that can provide a unified standard for global carbon emission monitoring, and is expected to fill the gap in global carbon accounting.

The research also points out that this method is applicable to monitoring other high-emission sources such as oil and gas fields and steel plants.

Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1836439063614596/

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