The NO2 camera team is participating in the PANACHE project, under the context of the BELSPO STEREO IV (Support To Exploitation and Research in Earth Observation) programme.
PANACHE (Plural Approaches for NO2 fluxes Assessment in large CHimney Emissions) is a collaboration with the Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP) and Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry (MPIC).
The PANACHE project primarily aims at reducing the uncertainties of an emerging top-down estimation method: the determination of NO2 emission fluxes from air quality satellite instruments such as TROPOMI. A secondary objective is to establish a new approach for the accurate determination of NO2 emission fluxes from large chimneys: the combination of an innovative hyperspectral imaging instrument, the NO2 camera, direct stack emission measurements and drone-borne lightweight low-cost air quality sensors flown inside the plume. The data from the latter serving to validate the NO2 field in the plume measured by the NO2 camera. Finally, a plume dispersion model will be used to extrapolate the NO2 camera data up to a scale compatible with the TROPOMI pixel size.
To achieve these objectives, two measurement campaigns will be organized at the Neurath power plant, in Germany, one of the biggest point sources of NO2 in Western Europe, whose emissions can easily reach the Belgian territory.
