CHEN Liangfu, ZHANG Ying, ZOU Mingmin, et al. Overview of atmospheric CO2 remote sensing from space[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2015,19(1):1-11. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20153331.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide( CO2) is a primary greenhouse gas
whose concentration and geographic distribution are the key points in global change research. Since 1998
space-based observation has been an important technique for the remote sensing of CO2 concentration. We present an overview of the advances in space-based remote sensing of CO2
including the development of remote sensors and inverse algorithms
as well as the calibration of retrieved results. We analyze the uncertainties in inverse methods from observations of both thermal infrared and shortwave infrared techniques. The potential development of CO2 retrieval is discussed at the end of this paper.