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

What can you do in Earth Engine?

Pre-processing

• Filter data

• Masking (removing clouds etc.)

• Create mosaics

Analysis

• Raster and Vector operations

• Time-series analysis

• Classify images

• Object-based segmentation

• Machine-learning

Visualisation

• Data visualisation

• Create maps

• Plot charts

• Build web-apps