Introduction to Google Earth Engine

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Session Agenda

Date: January 18, 2023

Instructor(s): Jose (Pepe) Ochoa

Contact information: em-trainings@sig-gis.com

Time Topics
09:00 – 09:45 Welcome and set-up check
What is Google Earth Engine, demonstration of the interface, benefits from a cloud-based geospatial coding platform
9:45 – 11:00 Google Earth Engine workspace and catalog
Introduction to JavaScript (JS): coding paradigm, declaration of variables
Analyzing programming structure: main JS reserved words and commands
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00 Practice Session:
- Satellite images in GEE: Browsing & pre-processing
- Retrieving & visualizing Landsat 8, Sentinel 2 and elevation products (NASADEM)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 –15:00 Morning recap
Temporal and spatial (clipping) filtering of composites:
- Cloud masking, cloud removal
Assets: new assets & loading of image collections, vectorial, tables (tiff, shapefiles, csv, etc.)

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