# What is Google Earth Engine?

Earth Engine is a virtual platform for geospatial analysis and visualisation for academic, non-profit, business and government users.  

It provides access to a web-based catalogue of over 40 petabytes of satellite imagery and other analysis-ready data.  Users can use Google's cloud platform to run analysis at huge scales.  

![Credit: Google Earth Engine](https://129913967-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-MjiZCnjzRgyoE8jhoZV%2Fuploads%2F0CiPEa0k9lYzTr5Vt3YW%2Fgee_info.png?alt=media\&token=e7b12650-3e7f-4c99-b75e-c9525b6e123c)

### What can you do in Earth Engine? 

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Pre-processing" %}

* Filter data
* Masking (removing clouds etc.) 
* Create mosaics
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{% tab title="Analysis" %}

* Raster and Vector operations
* Time-series analysis
* Classify images
* Object-based segmentation
* Machine-learning
  {% endtab %}

{% tab title="Visualisation" %}

* Data visualisation
* Create maps
* Plot charts
* Build web-apps
  {% endtab %}
  {% endtabs %}


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