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Orbio Earth finds methane leaks that could cost oil companies billions this year

Investors bet the startup’s algorithms, which feed on satellite data, will fill a significant gap in the methane market.

The top-down approach would use one or a handful of sensors that can oversee broad swaths of the planet; the results would be less accurate, but the costs would be substantially lower. Huppertz and co-founder Jack Angela have developed a suite of algorithms to detect methane emissions using freely available satellite data. In fact, until just a few years ago, experts thought that more general purpose remote sensing satellites like Sentinel-2 wouldn’t be able to pull enough signal from the noise to find methane leaks.

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