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Google Earth Engine Tutorial Pt. VI

This tutorial teaches how to manage raster, vector, and tabular data in Google Earth Engine (GEE), including how to create and edit fusion tables to upload data, upload imagery and vector files, share data with other GEE users, and download imagery after editing in GEE. Key steps include connecting to fusion tables in Google Drive, uploading a geoTIFF image asset up to 10 GB in size along with metadata, importing the image into GEE, and downloading the image by getting its download URL. The tutorial also covers sharing scripts on Github repositories to collaborate with other users.

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Google Earth Engine Tutorial Pt. VI

This tutorial teaches how to manage raster, vector, and tabular data in Google Earth Engine (GEE), including how to create and edit fusion tables to upload data, upload imagery and vector files, share data with other GEE users, and download imagery after editing in GEE. Key steps include connecting to fusion tables in Google Drive, uploading a geoTIFF image asset up to 10 GB in size along with metadata, importing the image into GEE, and downloading the image by getting its download URL. The tutorial also covers sharing scripts on Github repositories to collaborate with other users.

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Google Earth Engine Tutorial Pt.

VI
Raster, Vector and Tabular Data Management in GEE
Zachary Noah and J.B. Sharma, University of North Georgia

Objectives:
This tutorial will teach how to create and edit fusion tables, upload imagery, and upload vector
and tabular data using Fusion Tables and KMLs. Finally, it will teach how to share data with
other Google Earth Engine (GEE) users as well as download imagery after manipulation in GEE.
Introduction:
Fusion tables are spreadsheets which operate at much larger scale, can include geographic data
and have advanced visualization features. They are used by GEE Engine to store tabular data.
Users can create their own fusion tables and upload data to them from Excel spreadsheets or
CSV files.
Procedure:
1. To create a fusion table, log into your Google Drive, under the New button select the
More dropdown and then click on “Connect more apps”, in the popup window search for
‘fusion tables’ and hit connect.

2. Only doing this once is necessary and then it will appear in the New dropdown
permanently. Now create a new Fusion Table.

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An Excel file, a CSV, or a KML can be uploaded. In this activity, A KML of the campus map
will be used for this tutorial.
3. GEE supports user uploaded images without any storage restrictions. Go to the Assets tab
in the top left corner of the screen and click upload.

4. A geoTIFF up to 10 GB in size can be uploaded. Name the image under asset ID. Add as
many metadata properties as preferred by clicking on Add Property. Pyramiding Policy
allows you to select the sampling method for creating the lower resolution pyramid tiles.
Masking mode makes pixels transparent when it receives the no-data value which can be
specified.

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5. Once the image has been uploaded, double click on the image’s name listed under the
assets tab and a box will appear showing the metadata and the bands of the image.

6. Use the import button to send the image to the import list where it can be used in the
script as a variable just like any other image. Clicking the share button allows the image
to be shared with any number of other GEE engine users.

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7. Any variable of the Image type can be downloaded, but for the sake of this lab the same
image that was uploaded will also be downloaded. Double click on the image in the
Assets list and import it, change the name of the variable if preferred. Use the
Image.getDownloadURL({}) function to store the download URL in the path variable.

8. Run the script and the download URL will appear in the console at the top right of the
screen. Click the link to download the image.

9. GEE also supports the ability to share scripts using github repositories. Using Github
repositories allow you to collaborate on a script and view the changes that other
collaborators have made. To create a new shared repository go to the scripts tab and click
New Repository

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10. To configure access to the new repository click on the gear icon next to the name of the
repository in the Shared list. As many people as preferred can be added to the repository.
Only invited people can see the scripts. There is also an option to allow editing scrips or
only viewing them.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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