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Google Earth Engine for Urban Mapping

This document discusses Google Earth Engine and its use for urban mapping. Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based platform that contains petabytes of geospatial data from various public sources. It provides powerful computation capabilities to analyze large datasets. Users can access the data and tools through either an interactive Explorer interface or a code editor interface that allows for complex custom analysis. The document discusses how Google Earth Engine has made urban mapping more accurate and easier through features like its vast catalog of satellite imagery and ability to analyze change over time. While still in beta, Google Earth Engine shows potential for mapping and understanding urban growth patterns and dynamics.

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Google Earth Engine for Urban Mapping

This document discusses Google Earth Engine and its use for urban mapping. Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based platform that contains petabytes of geospatial data from various public sources. It provides powerful computation capabilities to analyze large datasets. Users can access the data and tools through either an interactive Explorer interface or a code editor interface that allows for complex custom analysis. The document discusses how Google Earth Engine has made urban mapping more accurate and easier through features like its vast catalog of satellite imagery and ability to analyze change over time. While still in beta, Google Earth Engine shows potential for mapping and understanding urban growth patterns and dynamics.

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GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE AND ITS USE IN URBAN MAPPING

Submitted to – Dr. Amit Kumar

Submitted by - Akash Gourav


Regd. No. - 18260401001
What is Google Earth Engine?

• Remote Sensing Archive with petabytes of data


in one location

• A cloud-based geospatial processing platform


for executing large-scale data analysis.
Why is it such a powerful image analysis
software?

• Public data catalog: vast amounts of publicly available data (you don’t need to
store data)
• Processing power (computation engine)
• Interactive development platforms
Data Catalog

•
• 200 public datasets
MODIS (250m daily)

• Landsat & Sentinel (10-30m, 14-day)

• 4000 new images every day


• Terra Bella (1m daily–weekly)

• 5 million images • Terrain &Land Cover

• Weather & Climate (NOAA NCEP, OMI,


• 5 petabytes of data ...)

• ... and many more, updating daily!


Computation Engine

• The computation engine is a just


in time distributed computation
model, a cloud-based processing
infrastructure that automatically
parallelizes analyses on many
CPUs across many computers in
Google’s data centers
• •Graphical User Interface (Explorer)
• https://explorer.earthengine.google.com/#workspace
• User friendly way to begin exploring and analyzing data

Two Platforms
• •Application Program Interface (Code Editor)
• https://code.earthengine.google.com/
• Powerful geospatial tool to create complex custom analysis
• Requires some programming knowledge
• Supports both JavaScript and Python
Explorer Platform

• A point and click platform: Audience: non-programmers


• Basic analysis functionality
• Per pixel math (~ESRI’s raster calculator),
• Neighbourhood algorithms,
• Terrain algorithms, etc.
• Save and share workspace
• Explore and export data
Code Editor

• Web based IDE for the Earth Engine API


• Access many pre-made geospatial tools
Code Editor Interface
GEE in urban Mapping
• Since the launch of Google earth engine urban mapping has
become more accurate and easy but still GEE is in its Beta testing
mode, So the full potential of GEE is still not confirmed.
• Time laps feature of GEE is the best way to understand about a city
• Time laps feature can tell you about a city growth, sprawl etc.
Urban sprawl of Dallas, Texas
• During the past century, many countries,
especially in the developing world, have been
experiencing rapid urbanization and complex
changes in patterns of land cover and land use.
Mapping urban area is quite a difficult task but
Conclusion.. with the help of GEE we can map urban areas or
at least gain some valuable information on
urban growth and expansion.
• We can also see the growth pattern of urban
area visually through time laps feature of GEE.
• google earth engine. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://earthengine.google.com/.
• Lalit Kumar 1, *. a. (n.d.). Google Earth Engine
Applications Since Inception:.
• Nanki Sidhu, E. P. (n.d.). Using Google Earth Engine to
detect land cover.
References… • Noel Gorelick a, ⁎. M. (n.d.). Google Earth Engine:
Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone.
• Ran Goldblatt 1, *. W. (n.d.). Detecting the Boundaries
of Urban Areas in India:.
• Ran Goldblatt, M. F.-C.-H. (n.d.). Mapping Urban Land
Cover: A Novel Machine Learning Approach Using
Landsat and Nighttime Lights.
THANK_YOU

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