Google Earth Engine 101: An Introduction for Complete Beginners
For Live Slides, go to: https://slides.com/staceymaples/gee101/live
this whole workshop, online
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.
“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.
Open the sample scripts in Earth Engine:
