The tech giant is deploying AI to help identify large sources of methane leaks in satellite data.
Tech giant Google is backing a satellite project due to launch in March which will collect data about methane levels around the world.Methane gas is believed by scientists to be a major contributor to global warming, because it traps in heat.
But the firm said if it identified a significant leak it would not specifically notify the company which owned the infrastructure responsible for it. Google's map, which will be published on its Earth Engine, will not be in real time, with data sent back from the satellite every few weeks., which charts the presence of trace gases in the atmosphere, including methane.Carbon Mapper, which uses Tropomi data,
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