Detecting Gas Flares and Evaluation Flaring Volumes Using Sentinel 2 and Modis Imagery (Abadan Oil Refinery Site, Iran)

Oil exploration has always endangered its surrounding ecosystem# gas flaring is one of the most destructive pollutant in the refineries# environmental implications of the flare and lack of access to official its emission information leads the researchers to apply satellite data# we have used sentinel 2 data to detect flare sites in abadan oil refinery# sentinel 2b (msil1c) multispectral imagery as a new technology in the remote sensing led us to operate 2 shortwave infrared bands (11, 12) in extracting fire points, for the first time# after conveying dn values, the mean, variance and data range of the bands have clearly detected flaring sites that matched 92% with ground data, impressively#