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Google Earth Engine
Noel Gorelick
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Who Am I?
"The software guy" on 6 NASA Mars missions
Engineer at Google for 9 years
Author Google Mars and Google Moon
Co-founder Google Earth Engine
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Google's Mission
Organize the world's information and
make it universally accessible and useful.
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My Mission
Organize the world's information and
make it universally accessible and useful.
scientific
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The Saga of Landsat
Series of 8 satellites
Continuous record since 1972
Multiband optical and thermal
Data became "free" in 2008
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The Saga of Landsat
Only 3.5M scenes out of ~7.1M in the catalog (4.1 PB)The rest are held at international receiving stations
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The Saga of Landsat
Only 3.5M scenes out of ~7.1M in the catalog (4.1 PB)The rest are held at international receiving stationsTapes blocked at the border by the Army
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The Saga of Landsat
Only 3.5M scenes out of ~7.1M in the catalog (4.1 PB)The rest are held at international receiving stationsTapes blocked at the border by the Army35 year old tapes …
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The Saga of Landsat
Only 3.5M scenes out of ~7.1M in the catalog (4.1 PB)The rest are held at international receiving stationsTapes blocked at the border by the Army35 year old tapes … have to be baked in an oven before reading
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The Saga of Landsat
3 years to download the entire archiveProcessed from tape, on demand
USGS Download Stats: http://landsat.usgs.gov/Landsat_Project_Statistics.php
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What did we do with all that data?
29 yearsof satellite data
2,068,467landsat scenes
909terabytes
2,000,000hours of computation
66,000CPUs
on
https://googleblog.blogspot.ch/2013/05/a-picture-of-earth-through-time.html
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We made a video!
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We made a video!
24 Terapixels
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We made a video!
24 Terapixels
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We made a video!
24 Terapixels
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We made a video!
24 Terapixels
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We made a video!
24 Terapixels
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TimeLapse
Launched with Time MagazineThousands of embedsMillions of views
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So what?
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So what?
These guys...
live here...
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So what?
724,000 km2 forest loss in Brazil since 1970 (17%)It's visible from space, "just" need a deforestation detector
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Earth Engine
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Earth Engine
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Earth Engine
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WhyStarted by for public benefit
Operationalize science, at scale
GoalsRemove access and capacity barriers
Foster open science
Promote transparency, reproducibility & collaboration
Maximum throughput, minimum latency
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WhyStarted by for public benefit
Operationalize science, at scale
GoalsRemove access and capacity barriers
Foster open science
Promote transparency, reproducibility & collaboration
Maximum throughput, minimum latency
Build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform
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Goals
Build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform
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Goals
… so we don't all die.
Build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform
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Goals
to help solve the world's biggest challenges… so we don't all die.
Build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform
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Goals
DeforestationDroughtDiseaseFamineFloodingFireEarthquakes
… so we don't all die.
Build the world's most advanced geospatial analysis platform
to help solve the world's biggest challenges
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Global Forest Extent and Change
Source: Hansen, Potapov, Moore, Hancher et al. , Science, 15 November 2013
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Drought Monitoring
Source: Hansen, Potapov, Moore, Hancher et al. , Science, 15 November 2013Desert Research Institute - Justin Huntington and Charles Morton
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Global Surface Water
Source: Pekel, Belward, Cotton & Gorelick, 2015
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Global Crop Map
Source: Prasad Thenkabai, Jun Xiong, USGS
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Disease Early Warning: Malaria Risk
Swaziland National Malaria Control Program / UCSF Global Health Group
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Earthquake Ground Velocity Prediction
Source: David Lallemant, Stanford
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Global Development
DMSP-OLS Nighttime persistent lights
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What Is Earth Engine
A "big data" platform for remote sensing
A fast computation & visualization system,
for global-scale geospatial analysis,
with a large scientific data catalog.
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Scientific Data Catalog
Imagery
Landsat 4, 5, 7, 85,500,000 scenes
30+ MODIS Level 2Daily, NBAR, LST, ...
Sentinel-1 GRD
Sentinel-2
Hyperion / ALINAIP, ASTER, ...
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Scientific Data Catalog
ImageryGeophysical
TerrainSRTM, ETOPO, GMTEDHIRES Global DEM project
Landcover Cropland Surface Temperature Other
Global forest change, canopy heightBiomass estimates, Burned areas, Vegetation continuous fields
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Scientific Data Catalog
ImageryGeophysicalClimate & Weather
MOD08 TOMS & OMI Ozone NCEP/NARR Precipitation
TRMM, Daymet, RTMA, CHRIPSCFSV2, GFS, PERSIANN
Forecast and ReanalysisNEX DCP-30, MACA, NLDAS, GLDAS,
GRIDMET
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Scientific Data Catalog
ImageryGeophysicalClimate & Weather
More than 250 public datasetsContinuously Updated +4000 images/day5.5 PB
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Pick your: projection, resolution, bands, bounding-box, visualization
What Can It Do?
Get an Image
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What Can It Do?
Library functions or your own script
Get an Image
Apply an algorithm to an image
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What Can It Do?
Time, Space, Metadata
Get an Image
Apply an algorithm to an image
Filter a collection
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N → N
Get an Image
Apply an algorithm to an image
Filter a collection
Map an algorithm over a collection
What Can It Do?
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N → 1 or N → M
What Can It Do?
Get an Image
Apply an algorithm to an image
Filter a collection
Map an algorithm over a collection
Reduce a collection
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What Can It Do?
Get an Image
Apply an algorithm to an image
Filter a collection
Map an algorithm over a collection
Reduce a collection
Compute an aggregate
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What Can It Do?
Good At
Band mathSpectral unmixingML ClassificationSegmentation,Template matchingTexture analysis
Parallelizable Operations
Bad At
Finite Element AnalysisHydrologic FlowIteration and Recursion