Google Earth Engine 101

An Introduction for Complete Beginners

https://github.com/StanfordGeospatialCenter/Google-Earth-Engine_101

a tiny introduction to

remote sensing with Google Earth Engine

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)

spectral curves

Cadence (Revisit Rates)

90PB Public Data Catalog

600+

“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 = 600+ Datasets

> 90 petabytes of data

and growing daily

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