A-MAPS Environmental

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1 A-MAPS Environmental LOOKNorth/PTAC Workshop Remote Sensing for Remote Resources Atmospheric Remote Sensing. Air Quality Mapping and Monitoring Industrial and Natural Emissions Calgary, May 2012 Daniel Spitzer

2 A-MAPS Environmental LOOKNorth/PTAC Workshop Remote Sensing for Remote Resources Arctic Mapping and Monitoring Industrial and Natural Emissions: Air Quality and Methane Oil Sands Alberta

3 A-MAPS Environmental Atmospheric Satellite Earth Observation Technologies: Nitrogen Dioxide (NO 2 ) Aerosol (PM) Sulphur Dioxide (SO 2 ) Methane (CH 4 ) Carbon Dioxide (CO 2 )

4 A-MAPS Environmental Atmospheric Satellite Earth Observation Technologies Satellite mission Sensor Spatial Air pollutants of interest resolution (km) AURA OMI NO 2, PM TERRA MODIS 1 10 PM AQUA ENVISAT Sciamachy methane, NO 2, CO 2 AQUA AIRS 1-13 methane METOP GOME NO 2 GOES Imager 4 PM

5 A-MAPS Environmental 1. Methane Release and Uptake in the Arctic

6 A-MAPS Environmental 1. Methane Release and Uptake in the Arctic

7 1. Methane Release and Uptake in the Arctic Cracks in the sea ice

8 1. Methane Release and Uptake in the Arctic Inverse modeling

9 2. Oil Sands Air Quality Monitoring

10 2. Air Quality Monitoring Ready to Commercialize

11 Alberta Environment & Alberta Geological Survey: Development of Mapping Tools and Improvement of Emission Inventory for the GHGs and Air Components using Satellite Earth Observations in the Alberta Oil Sands Objective To introduce the new approaches and tools, in support of Alberta government regulatory obligations with respect to GHGs and CACs monitoring and emissions management.

12 LOOKNorth/PTAC Workshop Remote Sensing for Remote Resources Detecting and monitoring natural and industrial emissions Possible initiatives dealing with applications of satellite Remote Sensing Carbon budget in the Canadian Arctic: Permafrost methane release and uptake CO 2 levels across CCS areas

13 LOOKNorth/PTAC Workshop Remote Sensing for Remote Resources Detecting and monitoring natural and industrial emissions Possible initiatives dealing with applications of satellite Remote Sensing Long distance emission plume tracking (Arctic) Air Quality monitoring in the Oil Sands area: Introduction of new cost effective Remote Sensing and GIS technologies

14 Cutting-edge environmental monitoring methods Application of satellite remote sensing technologies to map environmental processes in GIS formats Strong background in environmental sciences and monitoring technologies Development of products valuable to decision makers dealing with environmental issues Established in 2006, Ottawa A-MAPS Environmental 2011

15 Products and Services: Regional and Local Scales A-MAPS Environmental 2011

16 LOOKNorth/PTAC Workshop Remote Sensing for Remote Resources Customers, Users, Sponsors and Partners We work in close cooperation and partnerships with international and national governmental, non-governmental and private organizations: NASA European Space Agency German Aerospace Center Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Envitech Ltd. Sinocan Inc. Canadian Space Agency Natural Resources Canada Environment Canada Health Canada Public Health Agency Canada Transport Canada Statistics Canada Ontario Ministry of the Environment Québec Ministère du Développement durable, de l'environnement et des Parcs City of Ottawa Precarn Inc. Tecterra Inc. University of Ottawa University of Toronto University of Waterloo University of Windsor Dalhousie University Ottawa International Airport Risk Sciences International Inc. Pattern Discovery Technologies Inc. Media-X Systems Inc. A-MAPS Environmental 2011

17 LOOKNorth/PTAC Workshop Remote Sensing for Remote Resources THANK YOU Credits imagery: NOAA, NASA, ESA Calgary, May 2012 Daniel Spitzer