Basics of Google Earth Engine

Introduction

This tutorial includes short and minimalistic few example codes covering fundamentals of Google Earth Engine with JavaScript. Examples covers both vector and raster data analysis in Google Earth Engine. And data used in example codes are also included in tutorial folder.

Content

Content of this tutorial is as follows,

• Accessing and Visualizing Images
• Mathematical Operations with Images
• Exporting Images from GEE
• Working with Image Collections
• Case Study – Analyzing change of Water Extent
• Working with Vector Data
• Working with Charts
• Additional Stuff (Mosaicking and Mapping)

Acknowledgements

Created by N. Lakmal Deshapriya for activites of Geoinformatics Center of Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

References

• Gorelick, N., Hancher, M., Dixon, M., Ilyushchenko, S., Thau, D., & Moore, R. (2017). Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone. Remote Sensing of Environment.
• Hijmans, R.J., Guarino, L., Jarvis, A., O’Brien, R., Mathur, P., Bussink, C., Cruz, M., Barrantes, I. & Rojas, E. DIVA-GIS. Available at: www.diva-gis.org