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title: Validation and Metrics for Emissions Detection by Satellite
description: This document is focused on the specific example of satellite-based methane detection – but the principles can easily be applied to detection of other gases, and to detection from different platforms.
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Validation and Metrics for Emissions Detection by Satellite

**By Jason McKeever and Dylan Jervis**

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