An examination of enhanced atmospheric methane detection methods for predicting performance of a novel multiband uncooled radiometer imager

Webber, Cody M.; Kerekes, John P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5359-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5359-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5359-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

Research article

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09 Oct 2020

Research article |

| 09 Oct 2020

An examination of enhanced atmospheric methane detection methods for predicting performance of a novel multiband uncooled radiometer imager

Cody M. Webber and John P. Kerekes

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 May 2020
- AC1: 'Author Response to Referee #1 Comments', Cody Webber, 06 Jul 2020
RC2: 'Anonymous Referee #2 Comment of Webber and Kerekes 2020', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Author Response to Referee #2 Comments', Cody Webber, 06 Jul 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Cody Webber on behalf of the Authors (21 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (04 Aug 2020) by John Worden

ED: Publish as is (09 Aug 2020) by John Worden

AR by Cody Webber on behalf of the Authors (18 Aug 2020)

Short summary

Here we present a study performed to determine the methane detection capabilities of a novel remote thermal instrument, the Multiband Uncooled Radiometer Imager. We utilize a novel methane detection approach, the normalized differential methane index, that when applied to simulated multispectral thermal imagery with a single spectral channel dedicated to methane detection shows similar results to a state-of-the-art method, the matched-filter approach.