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Google Earth Engine (PDFDrive)

Google Earth Engine is a platform for petabyte-scale scientific analysis of geospatial datasets. It hosts a large catalog of satellite imagery and other scientific data that can be analyzed using its tools. The goal is to build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform to help solve some of the world's biggest challenges related to issues like deforestation, drought, disease, and natural disasters. It provides tools for filtering data collections, mapping algorithms over collections, reducing collections, and computing aggregates.

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Google Earth Engine (PDFDrive)

Google Earth Engine is a platform for petabyte-scale scientific analysis of geospatial datasets. It hosts a large catalog of satellite imagery and other scientific data that can be analyzed using its tools. The goal is to build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform to help solve some of the world's biggest challenges related to issues like deforestation, drought, disease, and natural disasters. It provides tools for filtering data collections, mapping algorithms over collections, reducing collections, and computing aggregates.

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Google Earth Engine

Noel Gorelick
Who Am I?

"The software guy" on 6 NASA Mars missions

Engineer at Google for 9 years

Author Google Mars and Google Moon

Co-founder Google Earth Engine


Google's Mission

Organize the world's information and

make it universally accessible and useful.


My Mission

t i f i c
scien
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Organize the world's information and

make it universally accessible and useful.


The Saga of Landsat

Series of 8 satellites

Continuous record since 1972

Multiband optical and thermal

Data became "free" in 2008


The Saga of Landsat

Only 3.5M scenes out of ~7.1M in the catalog (4.1 PB)


The rest are held at international receiving stations
The Saga of Landsat

Only 3.5M scenes out of ~7.1M in the catalog (4.1 PB)


The rest are held at international receiving stations
Tapes blocked at the border by the Army
The Saga of Landsat

Only 3.5M scenes out of ~7.1M in the catalog (4.1 PB)


The rest are held at international receiving stations
Tapes blocked at the border by the Army
35 year old tapes …
The Saga of Landsat

Only 3.5M scenes out of ~7.1M in the catalog (4.1 PB)


The rest are held at international receiving stations
Tapes blocked at the border by the Army
35 year old tapes … have to be baked in an oven before reading
The Saga of Landsat

3 years to download the entire archive


Processed from tape, on demand

USGS Download Stats: http://landsat.usgs.gov/Landsat_Project_Statistics.php


What did we do with all that data?

29 years 2,068,467 909


of satellite data landsat scenes terabytes

2,000,000 on 66,000
hours of computation CPUs

https://googleblog.blogspot.ch/2013/05/a-picture-of-earth-through-time.html
We made a video!
We made a video!

24 Terapixels
We made a video!

24 Terapixels
We made a video!

24 Terapixels
We made a video!

24 Terapixels
We made a video!

24 Terapixels
TimeLapse

Launched with Time Magazine


Thousands of embeds
Millions of views
So what?
So what?

These guys...

live here...
So what?

724,000 km2 forest loss in Brazil since 1970 (17%)


It's visible from space, "just" need a deforestation detector
Earth Engine
Earth Engine
Earth Engine
Why
Started by for public benefit
Operationalize science, at scale

Goals
Remove access and capacity barriers
Foster open science
Promote transparency, reproducibility & collaboration
Maximum throughput, minimum latency
Why
Started by for public benefit
Operationalize science, at scale

Goals
Remove access and capacity barriers
Foster open science
Promote transparency, reproducibility & collaboration
Maximum throughput, minimum latency

Build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform


Goals

Build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform


Goals

Build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform


… so we don't all die.
Goals

Build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform


… so we don't all die.
s b ig g e s t c h a ll e nges
lp solve the world '
to he
Goals

Build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform


… so we don't all die.
s b ig g e s t c h a ll e nges
lp solve the world '
to he

Deforestation
Drought
Disease
Famine
Flooding
Fire
Earthquakes
Global Forest Extent and Change

Source: Hansen, Potapov, Moore, Hancher et al. , Science, 15 November 2013


Drought Monitoring

DesertPotapov,
Source: Hansen, Research Institute
Moore, - Justin
Hancher et Huntington and
al. , Science, 15Charles
NovemberMorton
2013
Global Surface Water

Source: Pekel, Belward, Cotton & Gorelick, 2015


Global Crop Map

Source: Prasad Thenkabai, Jun Xiong, USGS


Disease Early Warning: Malaria Risk

Swaziland National Malaria Control Program / UCSF Global Health G


Earthquake Ground Velocity Prediction

Source: David Lallemant, Stanford


Global Development

DMSP-OLS Nighttime persistent lights


What Is Earth Engine

A "big data" platform for remote sensing

A fast computation & visualization system,

for global-scale geospatial analysis,

with a large scientific data catalog.


Scientific Data Catalog

Imagery
Landsat 4, 5, 7, 8
5,500,000 scenes

30+ MODIS Level 2


Daily, NBAR, LST, ...

Sentinel-1 GRD

Sentinel-2

Hyperion / ALI
NAIP, ASTER, ...
Scientific Data Catalog

Imagery
Geophysical
Terrain
SRTM, ETOPO, GMTED
HIRES Global DEM project

Landcover
Cropland
Surface Temperature
Other
Global forest change, canopy height
Biomass estimates,
Burned areas,
Vegetation continuous fields
Scientific Data Catalog

Imagery
Geophysical
Climate & Weather
MOD08
TOMS & OMI Ozone
NCEP/NARR

Precipitation
TRMM, Daymet, RTMA, CHRIPS
CFSV2, GFS, PERSIANN

Forecast and Reanalysis


NEX DCP-30, MACA, NLDAS, GLDAS,
GRIDMET
Scientific Data Catalog

Imagery
Geophysical
Climate & Weather

More than 250 public datasets


Continuously Updated +4000 images/day
5.5 PB
What Can It Do?

Get an Image

Pick your: projection, resolution, bands,


bounding-box, visualization
What Can It Do?

Get an Image

Apply an algorithm to an image

Library functions or your own script


What Can It Do?

Get an Image

Apply an algorithm to an image

Filter a collection

Time, Space, Metadata


What Can It Do?

Get an Image

Apply an algorithm to an image

Filter a collection

Map an algorithm over a collection

N→N
What Can It Do?

Get an Image

Apply an algorithm to an image

Filter a collection

Map an algorithm over a collection

Reduce a collection

N → 1 or N → M
What Can It Do?

Get an Image

Apply an algorithm to an image

Filter a collection

Map an algorithm over a collection

Reduce a collection

Compute an aggregate
What Can It Do?

Good At Bad At

Band math Finite Element Analysis


Spectral unmixing Hydrologic Flow
ML Classification Iteration and Recursion
Segmentation,
Template matching
Texture analysis

Parallelizable Operations
earthengine.google.com/signup

Thank you

[email protected]

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