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GEE

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment
University of California, Berkeley

Google Earth Engine (GEE)

“Google Earth Engine combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities.”

GEE is great repository for data, computation and mapping. Today we’ll focus on mapping

src-code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/cbc4e40ca55412fa922de8910849fbb3)

You can inspect and run the code for yourself here


GEE APP

Earth Engine also alows you to turn simple scripts like the one above into public facing apps with a few clicks of a button.

Here is the resulting app

https://dse-ee-playground.projects.earthengine.app/view/ecotech-geeapp-fires-demo

https://dse-ee-playground.projects.earthengine.app/view/ecotech-geeapp-fires-demo

One can go far beyond the simple app above. Here is an example of a more advance app

url: https://brookie.users.earthengine.app/view/calfires-explorer

url: https://brookie.users.earthengine.app/view/calfires-explorer


GEEMAP

“Geemap is a Python package for interactive geospatial analysis and visualization with Google Earth Engine”