Short URL: goto.stanford.edu/gee101
This Repo: https://github.com/StanfordGeospatialCenter/Google-Earth-Engine_101
This ReadMe as a WebPage: https://stanfordgeospatialcenter.github.io/Google-Earth-Engine_101/
An Introduction to Google Earth Engine for Complete Beginners.
You can find a self-paced version of this workshop, and others, on our ArcGIS Online landing page.
Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a cloud-based geospatial analysis platform that empowers researchers to process and analyze satellite imagery and geospatial datasets at scale. As a Stanford researcher, GEE enables you to conduct data-driven science, develop geospatial algorithms, and address global challenges using planetary-scale data resources.
Earth Engine provides:
The Earth Engine API allows you to create custom workflows for processing raster and vector data. This onboarding session is designed for Stanford researchers interested in leveraging GEE for remote sensing and geospatial analysis, even without extensive local computing resources.
Session Overview:
Prerequisites: No prior experience with Earth Engine or JavaScript is required. Familiarity with programming, remote sensing, or GIS concepts is helpful but not mandatory.
Getting Started: This workshop is tailored for Stanford University affiliates, most of whom should already have access to Google Earth Engine. If you are unable to access the Google Earth Engine Code Editor, please email stanford-geospatial@stanford.edu to request access.
For the best experience, use a modern Chromium-based browser.
If you are not a Stanford affiliate, you can request access to Google Earth Engine at: https://signup.earthengine.google.com
You can access the slides for the workshop at: https://slides.com/staceymaples/rswithgee/
Once you have signed up for and received confirmation of your Google Earth Engine account, you can copy the script repository for this webinar by clicking on the following link, which will redirect you to the Google Earth Engine Code Editor and import a series of scripts designed to introduce you to the basic mechanics of working in Google Earth Engine:
https://code.earthengine.google.com/?accept_repo=users/stacemaples/SGC-EE101
This one doesn’t really have a tutorial text, since it’s really about looking at the code, and what it is doing. The code in the Sample Scripts above is well-commented, and should make for a pretty straightforward walk-through. For those that like to read, the following is the original instructors notes document I used as a jumping off point for this workshop. Much of it will be redundant, if you watch the video, but a few things, like the difference between running things locally, or on the server, I just gloss over, and are better covered, here:
Earth Engine 101 Instructor Guide
As noted, this webinar is a modified version of the Google Earth Outreach Team’s own beginning workshop. You can find more materials to help you learn to use Google Earth Engine at: https://developers.google.com/earth-engine
Here are some highlights:
Original Google Earth Engine Beginners Training Materials
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery. Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, Kristin Tolle.
Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine: Fundamentals and Applications - This book is the product of more than a year of effort from more than 100 individuals, working in concert to provide this free resource for learning how to use this exciting technology for the public good.
The book includes work from undergraduates, master’s students, PhD students, postdocs, assistant professors, associate professors, and independent consultants.