Towards Operational Automated Greenhouse Gas Plume Detection and Delineation

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Main Authors: Bue, Brian D., Lee, Jake H., Thorpe, Andrew K., Brodrick, Philip G., Cusworth, Daniel, Ayasse, Alana, Mancoridis, Vassiliki, Satish, Anagha, Xiong, Shujun, Duren, Riley
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author Bue, Brian D.
Lee, Jake H.
Thorpe, Andrew K.
Brodrick, Philip G.
Cusworth, Daniel
Ayasse, Alana
Mancoridis, Vassiliki
Satish, Anagha
Xiong, Shujun
Duren, Riley
author_facet Bue, Brian D.
Lee, Jake H.
Thorpe, Andrew K.
Brodrick, Philip G.
Cusworth, Daniel
Ayasse, Alana
Mancoridis, Vassiliki
Satish, Anagha
Xiong, Shujun
Duren, Riley
contents Operational deployment of a fully automated facility-scale greenhouse gas (GHG) plume detection system remains challenging for fine spatial resolution imaging spectrometers, despite recent advances in deep learning approaches. With the dramatic increase in data availability, however, automation continues to increase in importance for emissions monitoring. This work reviews and addresses several key obstacles in the field: data and label quality control, prevention of spatiotemporal biases, and correctly aligned modeling objectives. We demonstrate through rigorous experiments using multicampaign data from airborne and spaceborne instruments that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are able to achieve operational detection performance when these obstacles are alleviated. We demonstrate that a multitask model that learns both instance detection and pixelwise segmentation simultaneously can successfully lead towards an operational pathway. We evaluate the model's plume detectability across emission source types and regions, identifying thresholds for operational deployment. Finally, we provide analysis-ready data, models, and source code for reproducibility, and work to define a set of best practices and validation standards to facilitate future contributions to the field.
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spellingShingle Towards Operational Automated Greenhouse Gas Plume Detection and Delineation
Bue, Brian D.
Lee, Jake H.
Thorpe, Andrew K.
Brodrick, Philip G.
Cusworth, Daniel
Ayasse, Alana
Mancoridis, Vassiliki
Satish, Anagha
Xiong, Shujun
Duren, Riley
Machine Learning
Operational deployment of a fully automated facility-scale greenhouse gas (GHG) plume detection system remains challenging for fine spatial resolution imaging spectrometers, despite recent advances in deep learning approaches. With the dramatic increase in data availability, however, automation continues to increase in importance for emissions monitoring. This work reviews and addresses several key obstacles in the field: data and label quality control, prevention of spatiotemporal biases, and correctly aligned modeling objectives. We demonstrate through rigorous experiments using multicampaign data from airborne and spaceborne instruments that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are able to achieve operational detection performance when these obstacles are alleviated. We demonstrate that a multitask model that learns both instance detection and pixelwise segmentation simultaneously can successfully lead towards an operational pathway. We evaluate the model's plume detectability across emission source types and regions, identifying thresholds for operational deployment. Finally, we provide analysis-ready data, models, and source code for reproducibility, and work to define a set of best practices and validation standards to facilitate future contributions to the field.
title Towards Operational Automated Greenhouse Gas Plume Detection and Delineation
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21806