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The road to climate change mitigation via methane emissions monitoring

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At the University of Oklahoma, we developed a high-performance mid-infrared photonic sensing solution for the deployment of a scalable, continuous monitoring network for methane emissions in the Anadarko Basin, one of the largest oil and gas production basins in the USA.

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Acknowledgements

The author discloses support for the work from the University of Oklahoma’s ‘Big Idea Challenge’ strategic initiative program, the State of Oklahoma’s Department of Environmental Quality’s OK-ENV program (A24-0186), the Oklahoma Center for Advancement of Science & Technology’s (OCAST) Applied Research program (AR21-052), and the US Department of Energy’s ‘Innovative Methane Measurement, Monitoring, and Mitigation Technologies’ (iM4) funding programs (DE-FE0032285 and DE-FE0032292).

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  1. School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    Binbin Weng

  2. Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    Binbin Weng

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Weng, B. The road to climate change mitigation via methane emissions monitoring. Nat Rev Electr Eng 1, 69–70 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44287-023-00014-5

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