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:
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.
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?
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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 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, 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 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 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 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 |