Data boundaries and evidence standard

For reviewed pilot locations, EcoSpace stores the regulator-published 2025 installation figure exactly as cited in the Anlegg i EU ETS worksheet. The source describes annual verified emissions for the named installation; the record retains its worksheet and registry identifier.

This adds a real, source-linked emissions record to the desk without turning a company-wide disclosure, a site point, and a satellite layer into one number.

An EU ETS installation figure is not a group Scope 1 total, a complete company footprint, or a satellite-derived result. It can be a strong cited facility input, but it still needs a compatible observed measure, matching period and spatial boundary, a documented method, quality information, and review before EcoSpace can publish a satellite comparison.

The Environment Agency requires an annual verified greenhouse-gas report for quota-regulated facilities. EcoSpace shows the regulator record as evidence of that named reporting boundary—not as a performance rating or compliance conclusion.

The layer shows a tropospheric NO₂ column derived from Sentinel-5P TROPOMI. NASA GIBS serves the visualization as public map tiles and retains the relevant product metadata. It can help a researcher see broad combustion-related air-pollution context around a mapped location.

The underlying map colour is the satellite product’s own colour scale. EcoSpace does not translate it into a company score, a facility emission rate, a surface concentration, or a CO₂e value.

Red and orange map zones are not inferred from the atmospheric layer. They require a reviewed, site-linked comparison with one shared unit, overlapping reporting and observation periods, an explicitly matched boundary, direct source URLs, a method/version, quality flags, and documented uncertainty.

A published zone is a review-priority screening signal, not proof of an error, a compliance conclusion, or a rating of a company’s environmental performance.

EcoSpace queries Sentinel-2 Level-2A catalogue metadata for an approximately 1 km coordinate search area: scene count, product acquisition date, product ID, and tile-level cloud-cover metadata. The source query and calculation version are retained with the context result.

This is a free availability layer. It does not download pixels or calculate an NDVI, land-cover, emissions, waste, water-pollution, or company-performance value.

Pixel-level analysis will be added only for a documented onshore site boundary, quality-filtered scenes, and a reproducible processing method using free CDSE access. EcoSpace will not use a paid automatic fallback.

Satellite outputs are described as observations or screening signals—not as “ESA verified” findings. A future vegetation-index or land-cover change can flag a review; it cannot establish deforestation, fault, ownership, compliance, or a company’s emissions.

Copernicus is the European Union Earth-observation programme, with ESA managing the Space Component. Neither ESA nor the European Union reviews or endorses EcoSpace findings.

• Describe recent location-level meteorological context.
• Show free Sentinel-2 scene availability and product-level cloud metadata for a coordinate.
• Display Sentinel-5P regional tropospheric NO₂ context as a distinct satellite visualization.
• Retain cited company or regulator-reported values with their stated period, unit, and boundary.
• Help a researcher decide whether a disclosure or a source needs further review.
• Keep a source query and limitation note with a climate-context record.

• Satellite-derived company or facility emissions measurement or verification from the current NASA / Copernicus layers.
• Atmospheric CO₂, NDVI, deforestation, water-pollution, or asset-condition analysis from the current catalogue layer.
• Automatic gap scores, greenwashing claims, compliance decisions, risk ratings, or audit conclusions.