CLOUD-BASED REMOTE SENSING WITH GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE
  • home
  • About
  • Go to the book
    • Get the repo
    • Section F1: Programming and Remote Sensing Basics
    • Section F2: Interpreting Images
    • Section F3: Advanced Image Processing
    • Section F4: Interpreting Image Series
    • Section F5: Vectors and Tables
    • Section F6: Advanced Topics
    • Section A1: Human Applications
    • Section A2: Aquatic and Hydrological Applications
    • Section A3: Terrestrial Applications - Part 1
    • Section A3: Terrestrial Applications - Part 2.
  • Table of contents
  • Videos
  • Translations
    • Français
    • español
  • Contact
  • User Map

About

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.

Using several strategies, we have worked hard to ensure a high-quality body of work across 55 chapters, more than 10,000 lines of code, and 250,000 words:
  • The text of each chapter has been reviewed for the clarity of the scientific content and instructions, on a minimum of three occasions by people working independently of each other, for more than 350 detailed chapter reviews.
  • The code in each chapter has been reviewed at Google for adherence to best practices, and subsequently reviewed for consistency with the instructions in the book’s text by two Earth Engine experts. 
  • A professional copy-editing team has worked through the entire book text, ensuring that all chapters have a consistent sound and approach, while preserving the voice of the authors.


Editors

  • Jeffrey A. Cardille - McGill University
  • Nick Clinton - Google
  • Morgan A. Crowley - McGill University
  • David Saah - University of San Francisco

Acknowledgements

Over 100 chapter authors volunteered their time to make this book a reality. Without compensation, they shared their knowledge, endured rounds of editorial suggestions, and processed multiple chapter reviews by individuals across a range of experience levels. The careful review of chapters was an enormous task undertaken by many people over countless hours: these included Ellen Brock, Florina Richard, Khashayar Azad, Phillip Pichette, Philippe Lizotte, Jake Hart, Natalie Sprenger, Jonah Zoldan, Sheryl Rose Reyes, and anonymous students at McGill University and the University of Toronto.

Copy-editing was provided by the team of Christine Kent and Jose Isaza. Early views of the chapters were edited and prepared with the help of Mark Essig.
This book was made possible in part by funding from SERVIR, a joint initiative of NASA, USAID, and leading geospatial organizations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We are grateful for their support and continued dedication to capacity building in the use of Earth observation information, Earth science, and technology. 

The book was also made possible through funding from SilvaCarbon, an inter-agency effort of the US government to build capacity for the measurement, monitoring, and reporting of carbon in forests and other lands. With that support, each chapter’s code was standardized and checked for bugs and inefficiencies repeatedly over several months. 
 
The book was also made possible through the funding of a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. This grant from the people of Canada permitted us to dedicate substantial time to editorial work and overall quality control. 

The contents are the responsibility of the authors and editors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Google, NSERC, SERVIR, SilvaCarbon, NASA, USAID, the Government of the United States, or the Government of Canada.


Who are the authors?

​Ginger Allington
George Washington University
Chapter A3.8

Paulo Arévalo
Boston University
Chapter F4.7

Amanda Armstrong
UMBC, GESTARII-NASA-GSFC
Chapter A2.6

Cesar Aybar
Z_GIS, University of Salzburg
Chapter F6.5

George Azzari
Atlas AI, Stanford University (FSE)
Chapter A1.1

Fedor Baart
Deltares; Delft University of Technology
Chapter F6.0

Antony Barja
Health Innovation Laboratory, Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Peru
Chapter F6.5

Milagros Becerra
Conservación Amazónica - ACCA
Chapter A1.5

Biplov Bhandari
University of Alabama in Huntsville / NASA SERVIR Science Coordination Office
Chapter F4.6

Rylan Boothman
McGill
Chapter F4.8

Samuel Bowers
University of Edinburgh
Chapter F5.2

Justin Braaten
Google
Chapter F5.2, A2.6

Harriet Branson
Fauna & Flora International
Chapter A3.9

Eric Bullock
Boston University
Chapter A3.4

Jeffrey Cardille
McGill
Chapter F3.5

Jeffrey Cardille
McGill
Chapter F3.5, F4.0, F4.8

Daniel Carver
Colorado State University
Chapter A3.6, A3.7

TC Chakraborty
Yale University; Pacific Northwest National Lab
Chapter A1.8

Gherardo Chirici
University of Florence
Chapter F4.3

Sourangsu Chowdhury
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
Chapter A1.7

Spyros Christofilakos
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Department of Photogrammetry and image Analysis, Rutherford 2,12489 Berlin, Germany
Chapter A2.2

Peter Clary
Oregon State University
Chapter F4.5

Nicholas Clinton
Google
Chapter F6.2

Nicholas C. Coops
University of the British Columbia
Chapter F4.3

Morgan A. Crowley
Canadian Forest Service - Great Lakes Forestry Centre
Chapter F3.5, A3.1

Celio De Sousa
University of Maryland, Baltimore County/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Chapter A3.3

Jillian Deines
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Stanford University
Chapter F6.2

Stefania Di Tommaso
Stanford University
Chapter F6.2

John Dilger
Spatial Informatics Group, SIGNAL
Chapter A3.4, F4.4, A1.5

Gennadii Donchyts
Deltares
Chapter A2.3, F4.1, F6.0

Karen Dyson
Spatial Informatics Group; Dendrolytics
Multiple Chapters

Peder Engelstad
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
Chapter A3.6, A3.7

Wendy Espinoza
National University of San Marcos
Chapter F6.5

James Famiglietti
Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan
Chapter A2.4

Lola Fatoyinbo
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Chapter A3.3

Saverio Francini
University of Florence
Chapter F4.3

Hannah K. Friedrich
University of Arizona
Chapter A1.4

Ujaval Gandhi
Spatial Thoughts
Chapter F1.1, F4,4, F5.3

Ran Goldblatt
New Light Technologies
Chapter A1.3

Andrea Gonzales
National University of San Marcos
Chapter F6.5

Noel Gorelick
Google
Chapter F6.2

Arjen Haag
Deltares
Chapter A2.3

Txomin Hermosilla
Canadian Forest Service
Chapter F4.3

Fernando Herrera
National University of San Marcos
Chapter F6.5

Robert Kennedy
Oregon State University
Chapter F4.5

Pradeep Koulgi
National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
Chapter A3.10

Natalie Kreitzer
George Washington University
Chapter A3.8

David Lagomasino
East Carolina University
Chapter A3.3

Theodore Langhorst
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapter A2.4

James Lea
University of Liverpool
Chapter F5.4

Tianjia Liu
Harvard University
Chapter A3.1

Kel Markert
Google
Chapter A2.3

Madhusudan MD
National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
Chapter A3.1

David Montero
RSC4Earth, University of Leipzig
Chapter F6.5

Dawn Nekorchuk
University of Oklahoma
Chapter A1.6

Quyen Nguyen
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong
Chapter A2.5

Keiko Nomura
Climate Engine
Chapter F5.2

Sidney Novoa
Conservación Amazónica - ACCA
Chapter A1.5

Pontus Olofsson
Boston University
Chapter F4.7

Tamlin Pavelsky
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapter A2.4

Paula Andrea Paz Garcia
Alliance Bioversity-CIAT
Chapter F4.4

Flavie Pelletier
McGill
Chapter F4.8

Elijah Perez
McGill
Chapter F4.8

Ate Poortinga
Spatial Informatics Group, SERVIR-Mekong
Chapter A2.5

Dimitris Poursanidis
Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, The Remote Sensing lab/terraSolutions marine environment research
Chapter A2.2

AJ Purdy
University of San Francisco
Chapter F5.1, A2.4

Andrea Puzzi Nicolau
Spatial Informatics Group, SIGNAL
Multiple Chapters

David Saah
University of San Francisco
Multiple Chapters

Aurélie Shapiro
FAO/Here+There Mapping
Chapter A3.2

Chelsea Smith
Fauna & Flora International
Chapter A3.9

Nyein Soe Thwal
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong
Chapter A2.5

Carlos Souza
Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (Imazon)
Chapter A3.4

Michelle Stuhlmacher
DePaul University
Chapter A1.3

Sabrina H. Szeto
Sabrina Szeto Consulting
Chapter F6.0

Xiaojing Tang
Boston University
Chapter A3.4

Morgan Tassone
University of Virginia
Chapter A2.6

Karis Tenneson
Spatial Informatics Group
Multiple Chapters

Erin Trochim
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Chapter A1.2

Jamon Van Den Hoek
Oregon State University
Chapter A1.4

Zander Venter
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Chapter A1.7

Lucio Villa
Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM); Conservación Amazónica - ACCA
Chapter A1.5

Mary Villamor
McGill
Chapter F4.8

Sherrie Wang
University of California, Berkeley
Chapter A1.1

Crystal Wespestad
Spatial Informatics Group
Chapter F4.4

Joanne C. White
Canadian Forest Service
Chapter F4.3

Eidan Willis
McGill
Chapter F4.8

Sara Winsemius
University of California, Davis
Chapter F5.2

Qiusheng Wu
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Chapter F6.3

Michael A. Wulder
Canadian Forest Service
Chapter F4.3

Xiao Yang
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapter A2.4

Nicholas Young
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
Chapter A3.6, A3.7

Brian Zutta
Spatial Informatics Group
Chapter F4.4

 

Contact us
  • home
  • About
  • Go to the book
    • Get the repo
    • Section F1: Programming and Remote Sensing Basics
    • Section F2: Interpreting Images
    • Section F3: Advanced Image Processing
    • Section F4: Interpreting Image Series
    • Section F5: Vectors and Tables
    • Section F6: Advanced Topics
    • Section A1: Human Applications
    • Section A2: Aquatic and Hydrological Applications
    • Section A3: Terrestrial Applications - Part 1
    • Section A3: Terrestrial Applications - Part 2.
  • Table of contents
  • Videos
  • Translations
    • Français
    • español
  • Contact
  • User Map