Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

Title

Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

Creator(s)

Gorelick, Noel

Hancher, Matt

Dixon, Mike

Ilyushchenko, Simon

Thau, David

Moore, Rebecca

Date

2017

Is Part Of

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volume

202

Pages

18-27

Language

eng

Short Title

Google Earth Engine

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.031

Zotero BiDiAr

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/PEMCMG65/item-list

Abstract

Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based platform for planetary-scale geospatial analysis that brings Google's massive computational capabilities to bear on a variety of high-impact societal issues including deforestation, drought, disaster, disease, food security, water management, climate monitoring and environmental protection. It is unique in the field as an integrated platform designed to empower not only traditional remote sensing scientists, but also a much wider audience that lacks the technical capacity needed to utilize traditional supercomputers or large-scale commodity cloud computing resources.