Presenters-0466

CSDMS 2020: Linking Ecosphere and Geosphere

An introduction to Google Earth Engine— the planetary-scale GIS for everyone

Michael Koontz
Earth Lab, University of Colorado, United States
miko0411@colorado.edu

Abstract
Google Earth Engine is a powerful geographic information system (GIS) that brings programmatic access and massively parallel computing to petabytes of publicly-available Earth observation data using Google’s cloud infrastructure. In this live-coding clinic, we’ll introduce some of the foundational concepts of workflows in Earth Engine and lay the groundwork for future self-teaching. Using the JavaScript API, we will practice: raster subsetting, raster reducing in time and space, custom asset (raster and vector) uploads, visualization, mapping functions over collections of rasters or geometries, and basic exporting of derived products.

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Of interest for:

Terrestrial Working Group

Coastal Working Group

Marine Working Group

Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group

Hydrology Focus Research Group

Chesapeake Focus Research Group

Critical Zone Focus Research Group

Human Dimensions Focus Research Group

Geodynamics Focus Research Group

Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group