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EMIT L2B Estimated Carbon Dioxide Plume Complexes 60 m V001

Metadata Updated: September 19, 2025

The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument measures surface mineralogy, targeting the Earth’s arid dust source regions. EMIT is installed on the International Space Station (ISS) and uses imaging spectroscopy to take measurements of the sunlit regions of interest between 52° N latitude and 52° S latitude. An interactive map showing the locations of methane plumes along with metadata, regions being investigated, current and forecasted data coverage, and additional data resources can be found on the VSWIR Imaging Spectroscopy Interface for Open Science (VISIONS) EMIT Open Data Portal.In addition to its primary objective described above, EMIT has demonstrated the capacity to characterize carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) point-source emissions by measuring gas absorption features in the short-wave infrared bands. The EMIT Level 2B Greenhouse Gas (GHG) series of products can be used to identify and quantify point source emissions. The EMIT Level 2B Estimated Carbon Dioxide Plume Complexes (EMITL2BCO2PLM) Version 1 data product provides estimated carbon dioxide plume complexes in parts per million meter (ppm m) along with uncertainty data. The EMITL2BCO2PLM data product will only be generated where carbon dioxide plume complexes have been identified. To reduce the risk of false positives, all EMITL2BCO2ENH data undergo a manual review (or identification and confirmation) process before being designated as a plume complex. For more information on the manual review process, see Section 4.2.2 of the EMIT GHG Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD). Each EMITL2BCO2PLM granule is sized to a specific plume complex but may cross multiple EMITL2BCO2ENH granules. A list of EMITL2BCO2ENH source granules is included in the GeoTIFF file metadata as well as the GeoJSON file. Each EMITL2BCO2PLM granule contains two files: one Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) file at a spatial resolution of 60 meters (m) and one GeoJSON file. The EMITL2BCO2PLM COG file contains a raster image of a carbon dioxide plume complex extracted from EMITL2BCO2ENH v001 data. The EMITL2BCO2PLM GeoJSON file contains a vector outline of the plume complex, a list of source scenes, coordinates of the maximum enhancement values, and the uncertainty of the plume complex.Known Issues* Data acquisition gap: From September 13, 2022, through January 6, 2023, a power issue outside of EMIT caused a pause in operations. Due to this shutdown, no data were acquired during that timeframe.

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Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025

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Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025
Publisher LP DAAC;NASA/JPL/EMIT
Maintainer
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Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
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Temporal 2022-08-09/2022-08-09

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