Google Earth Engine 101: An Introduction for Complete Beginners

For Live Slides, go to: https://slides.com/staceymaples/gee101/live

this whole workshop, online

https://arcg.is/0DmS590

a tiny introduction to

remote sensing

Digital images are made of pixels, and pixels are representations of numeric values

Those values represent the amount of reflected electromagnetic energy

(which is everywhere, and everything reflects or absorbs it differently, and measurably)

Finally, cadence...

How often does a satellite revisit locations?

• Landsat - 16 days
• Sentinel 2 - 10 days at the equator, 2-3 at mid-latitudes
• Planet.com - Daily
• Digital Globe - varies, tasked

goo.gl/9f9NgB 

click on this link and login to Google Earth Engine with your Stanford Email.

https://slides.com/staceymaples/gee101

“Often it turns out to be more efficient to move the questions than to move the data.

- Jim Gray”

Until 2008, only 4 percent of the Landsat archive had even been examined.

Google Earth Engine Catalog

100+ petabytes of data 

goo.gl/9f9NgB 

click on this link and login to Google Earth Engine with your Stanford Email.

goo.gl/9f9NgB

Open the sample scripts in Earth Engine:

https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/guides/getstarted

gis.stanford.edu

earthworks.stanford.edu

stanford-geospatial.slack.com

stanford.maps.arcgis.com