Google Earth Engine 101
An Introduction for Complete Beginners
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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