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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2016 Dec 14;67(5):613–622. doi: 10.1080/10962247.2016.1268982

Table 3.

Count of HMS satellite detections by Filtering Level

Filter Level Description Count of HMS Detections % of Agriculture/Rangeland Comments
1 Detections outside of lower 48 states 196,875 Included for SF2 processing
2 Detections that were not agricultural 108,203 Included for SF2 processing
3 Detections in snow covered areas 6,701 11% Included for SF2 processing
4 Detections removed from Iowa 944 1% Included for SF2 processing
4 Detections removed from other midwestern states 2,911 5% Included for SF2 processing
4 Detections Removed from Delaware 15 0% Included for SF2 processing
5 Detections that were duplicates from GOES 336 1% Not used
5 Detections that were duplicates across satellites 4,907 8% Not used
6 Detections used for emission estimates 47,729 75% Used in this study for emission estimates