Space Carbon Observatory

SCARBO airborne flight campaign in completed!

We have completed our airborne campaign. It has been affected by COVID-19 impacts but also by technical issues with the flight test aircraft. We are currently evaluating the data and measurements collected.

SPACE
CARBON
OBSERVATORY

Innovative solutions to monitor anthropogenic greenhouse gases from Space

Frequent observations
High spatial resolution
High accuracy

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The project
in a nutshell

The EU policy guidelines for anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) monitoring from space call for frequent observations, high accuracy and spatial resolution. These requirements are currently unmet.

The SCARBO project proposes a solution to the problem leveraging on Small Satellites and miniaturised sensors.

In terms of chemical species to be monitored, SCARBO will target CO2 and CH4.

Small Sats constellation
Novel miniaturised sensors
Aerosol sensors

SCOPE

Technical feasibility study
Assessment of mission performances
Proof of concept demonstration
Exploitation plan and use cases

CHALLENGES

High accuracy measurements
High observation frequency
High spatial resolution
Mission cost optimisation

NEWS

Installation of the NanoCarb gyroscopic platform onto the Falcon-20

Sep

Demonstration campaign under way!

The demonstration airborne campaign will be the highlight of the SCARBO project.

Sep

TEMPO: Monitoring North America’s Pollution from Space

The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission is a collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Director of Safire, Aurelien Bourdon (second from left) standing at the Falcon-20 aircraft with SRON engineers

Feb

Aerosol-instrument SPEX airborne ready to fly

Dec

SCARBO scientists profile: Friedemann Reum, SRON

Many scientific minds from organisations across Europe have joined forces on project SCARBO.

space carbon observatory

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 769032.

SCARBO factsheet

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to contact us:

info@scarbo-h2020.eu