SeekOps Inc.

Systems, devices, and methods for a trace-gas sensor configured to generate a raw detector signal ( 118 ) based on a gas sample; an analog processing configured to filter, amplify, lock-in, and/or normalize the generated raw detector signal; analog to digital converters configured to convert the filtered and amplified detector signal to a digital signal; and a drive computer configured to: receive the converted digital signal from the analog to digital converters; and apply a spectroscopic model to the received digital signal to extract one or more properties of the gas sample.

Systems, devices, and methods including an aerial vehicle having a global positioning system (GPS) and at least one trace-gas sensor configured to generate gas data; and a processor having addressable memory, the processor configured to: determine a flight envelope based on a received spatial location, a received spatial location of the one or more potential gas sources, a received desired level of confidence, and a received wind data; determine a flight path for the aerial vehicle, where the flight path covers a portion of the determined flight envelope; and determine based on a received gas data whether a gas leak is present in the received spatial location to the received desired level of confidence.

Systems, devices, and methods including receiving, by a processor having addressable memory, a spatial location of one or more known assets; determining, by the processor, one or more clusters based on the received spatial location of the one or more known assets; determining, by the processor, a bound for each asset of the one or more known assets in each cluster; and determining, by the processor, a flight plan for an aerial vehicle for each cluster, where the flight plan surveys each asset in each cluster.

Systems, devices and methods including a handheld sensing device comprising: a sensor configured to measure ambient methane, ethane, propane, butane, and/or pentane concentrations; and a handle, where the sensor is disposed on a first end of the handle; control electronics comprising: a processor having addressable memory, the processor in communication with the sensor, where the processor is configured to: receive the measured ambient gas concentrations; and detect elevated ambient gas concentrations that may be attributed to a natural gas emissions source based on the measured ambient gas concentrations.

Systems, devices, and methods including: an optical gas imaging (OGI) camera; a processor in communication with the OGI camera, the processor configured to: capture at least two images of a scene with the camera; compare the captured at least two images to determine at least one of: a motion associated with a movement of the camera and a motion associated with a movement of a gas plume; apply a color to each pixel of the captured images based on at least one of: a direction of movement and a velocity of movement between the at least two captured images; subtract pixels from the colored pixels associated with the movement of the camera; and generate an image of an output of a gas plume based on the subtracted pixels and the applied color pixels.

Systems, devices, and methods for a gas sensor comprising one or more optical cells; a processor having addressable memory, the processor configured to: detect gas from the one or more optical cells of the gas sensor, where the detected gas is one or more of: methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, water, ammonia, sulfur oxides, and nitrogen; record data corresponding to the detected gas, where the recorded data comprises at least one of: an ambient temperature from a temperature sensor, an ambient pressure from a pressure sensor, an aerial vehicle telemetry, and an aerial vehicle location from a global positioning system (GPS); and generate a map of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration on a map based on the detected gas and the recorded data.

Systems, devices, and methods including one or more optical cavities; one or more light sources configured to emit a specified wavelength or band of wavelengths of light; and one or more photovoltaic detectors configured to receive the emitted light that has traveled over one or more path lengths, where the one or more photovoltaic detectors are configured to detect at least one of: a first trace gas species and a second trace gas species.

Systems, devices, and methods including a processor having addressable memory, the processor configured to: receive an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data packet, where the UAV data packet comprises methane concentration data and UAV information from a UAV flight path; receive at least one Meteorological data packet, where the Meteorological data packet comprises weather data; combine the UAV data packet with a nearest Meteorological data packet; and determine a methane emission rate of a methane source based on the combined UAV data packet and the nearest Meteorological data packet.

Systems, devices, and methods for receiving, by a ground control station (GCS) having a processor with addressable memory, a plurality of point source gas concentration measurements; receiving, by the GCS, a meteorological data corresponding to each point source concentration gas measurement; determining, by the GCS, if each point source gas concentration measurement is an elevated ambient gas concentration; generating, by the GCS, a back trajectory for each elevated ambient gas concentration; storing, by the GCS, the position of each generated back trajectory in a grid; determining, by the GCS, a probability of a gas source location corresponding to the stored positions in the grid; and generating, by the GCS, an overlay showing the probability of the gas source location.

Systems, devices, and methods for an optical head enclosure of a sensor; one or more imbedded nozzles disposed on a surface of the optical head enclosure; an inlet of the one or more imbedded nozzles, where the inlet comprises a nozzle channel for receiving a cleaning solution; a flow channel internal to the optical head enclosure, where the nozzle channel is connected to the flow channel, and where the flow channel comprises an outlet for dispersing the cleaning solution received from the nozzle channel; wherein the inlet comprises a break to stop a nozzle of a cleaning device from reaching a mirror of the sensor; where the outlet directs the cleaning solution from the inlet onto the mirror.