The Google Satellite Embedding dataset is a global, analysis-ready collection of learned geospatial embeddings. Each 10-meter pixel in this dataset is a 64-dimensional representation, or "embedding vector," that encodes temporal trajectories of surface conditions at and around that pixel as measured by various Earth observation instruments and datasets, over a …

Meet Earth EngineGoogle Earth Engine combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities and makes it available for scientists, researchers, and developers to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface.SATELLITE IMAGERY+YOUR ALGORITHMS+REAL WORLD APPLICATIONSLEARN MOREGLOBAL-SCALE INSIGHTExplore our interactive timelapse viewer to travel back in time and see how the world has changed over the past twenty-nine years. Timelapse is one example of how Earth Engine can help gain insight into petabyte-scale datasets.EXPLORE TIMELAPSEREADY-TO-USE DATASETSThe public data archive includes more than thirty years of historical imagery and scientific datasets, updated and expanded daily. It contains over twenty petabytes of geospatial data instantly available for analysis.EXPLORE DATASETSSIMPLE, YET POWERFUL APIThe Earth Engine API is available in Python and JavaScript, making it easy to harness the power of Google’s cloud for your own geospatial analysis.EXPLORE THE APIGoogle Earth Engine has made it possible for the first time in history to rapidly and accurately process vast amounts of satellite imagery, identifying where and when tree cover change has occurred at high resolution. Global Forest Watch would not exist without it. For those who care about the future of the planet Google Earth Engine is a great blessing!-Dr. Andrew Steer, President and CEO of the World Resources Institute.CONVENIENT TOOLSUse our web-based code editor for fast, interactive algorithm development with instant access to petabytes of data.LEARN ABOUT THE CODE EDITORSCIENTIFIC AND HUMANITARIAN IMPACTScientists and non-profits use Earth Engine for remote sensing research, predicting disease outbreaks, natural resource management, and more.SEE CASE STUDIESREADY TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION?SIGN UP NOWTERMS OF SERVICE PRIVACY ABOUT GOOGLE

Training Classifiers, Supervised Classification and Error Assessment • How to add raster and vector data from the catalog in Google Earth Engine; • Train a classifier; • Perform the error assessment; • Download the results.

After 2022-01-25, Sentinel-2 scenes with PROCESSING_BASELINE '04.00' or above have their DN (value) range shifted by 1000. The HARMONIZED collection shifts data in newer scenes to be in the same range as in older scenes. Sentinel-2 is a wide-swath, high-resolution, multi-spectral imaging mission supporting Copernicus Land Monitoring studies, including the …

Researchers in India have developed a global flood mapper tool which runs on Google. The tool allows to explore the extent of historical floods from 2014 onwards. Data and Resources Global Flood Mapper AdvancedSHP Please use Google Chrome for best viewing experience

Data Management

• Create and edit fusion tables

• Upload imagery, vector, and tabular data using Fusion Tables and KMLs

• Share data with other Google Earth Engine (GEE) users as well as download imagery after manipulation in GEE.

Visualization

• How to use the knowledge of how to visualize images that you learned in previous tutorials and embed the visualization parameters inside of the GEE script so that the imagery will appear with the same visualization every time it is run.

Top of Atmosphere (TOA) reflectance data in bands from the USGS Landsat 5 and Landsat 8 satellites were accessed via Google Earth Engine. CANUE staff used Google Earth Engine functions to create cloud free annual composites, and mask water features, then export the resulting band data. NDVI indices were calculated as (band 4 - Band 3)/(Band 4 Band 3) for Landsat 5 data, and as (band 5 - band 4)/(band 5 Band 4) for Landsat 8 data. These composites are created from all the scenes in each annual period beginning from the first day of the year and continuing to the last day of the year. No data were available for 2012, due to decommissioning of Landsat 5 in 2011 prior to the start of Landsat 8 in 2013. No cross-calibration between the sensors was performed, please be aware there may be small bias differences between NDVI values calculated using Landsat 5 and Landsat 8. Final NDVI metrics were linked to all 6-digit DMTI Spatial single link postal code locations in Canada, and for surrounding areas within 100m, 250m, 500m, and 1km.

Link to the Google Earth Engine (GEE) code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/cc3ea6593574e321acd7b68c975a9608

You can analyze and visualize the following spatial layers by accessing the GEE link:

Daytime summer land surface temperature (raster data, 30 m horizontal resolution, from Landsat-8 remote sensing data, years 2017-2022)

The surface thermal hot-spot pattern (raster data,30 m horizontal resolution) was obtained by using a statistical-spatial method based on the Getis-Ord Gi* approach through the ArcGIS tool.

Here attached the .txt file from the GEE code.

E-mail

Giulia Guerri, CNR-IBE, giulia.guerri@ibe.cnr.it

Marco Morabito, CNR-IBE, marco.morabito@cnr.it

Alfonso Crisci, CNR-IBE, alfonso.crisci@ibe.cnr.it

CANUE staff developed annual estimates of maximum mean warm-season land surface temperature (LST) recorded by LandSat 8 at 30m resolution. To reduce the effect of missing data/cloud cover/shadows, the highest mean warm-season value reported over three years was retained - for example, the data for 2021 represent the maximum of the mean land surface temperature at a pixel location between April 1st and September 30th in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Land surface temperature was calculated in Google Earth Engine, using a public algorithm (see supplementary documentation). In general, annual mean LST may not reflect ambient air temperatures experienced by individuals at any given time, but does identify areas that are hotter during the day and therefore more likely to radiate excess heat at night - both factors that contribute to heat islands within urban areas.

The Lithology dataset provides classes of the general types of parent material of soil on the surface. It is not derived from any DEM. The Conservation Science Partners (CSP) Ecologically Relevant Geomorphology (ERGo) Datasets, Landforms and Physiography contain detailed, multi-scale data on landforms and physiographic (aka land facet) patterns. Although there are many potential uses of these data, the original purpose for these data was to develop an ecologically relevant classification and map of landforms and physiographic classes that are suitable for climate adaptation planning. Because there is large uncertainty associated with future climate conditions and even more uncertainty around ecological responses, providing information about what is unlikely to change offers a strong foundation for managers to build robust climate adaptation plans. The quantification of these features of the landscape is sensitive to the resolution, so we provide the highest resolution possible given the extent and characteristics of a given index.

Clipping • How to clip a raster image to the extent of a vector polygon in order to speed up processing times as well to display only the imagery you want.

The Sentinel-1 mission provides data from a dual-polarization C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument at 5.405GHz (C band). This collection includes the S1 Ground Range Detected (GRD) scenes, processed using the Sentinel-1 Toolbox to generate a calibrated, ortho-corrected product. The collection is updated daily. New assets are ingested within two days after they become available. This collection contains all of the GRD scenes. Each scene has one of 3 resolutions (10, 25 or 40 meters), 4 band combinations (corresponding to scene polarization) and 3 instrument modes. Use of the collection in a mosaic context will likely require filtering down to a homogeneous set of bands and parameters. See this article for details of collection use and preprocessing. Each scene contains either 1 or 2 out of 4 possible polarization bands, depending on the instrument's polarization settings. The possible combinations are single band VV, single band HH, dual band VV+VH, and dual band HH+HV: VV: single co-polarization, vertical transmit/vertical receive HH: single co-polarization, horizontal transmit/horizontal receive VV + VH: dual-band cross-polarization, vertical transmit/horizontal receive HH + HV: dual-band cross-polarization, horizontal transmit/vertical receive Each scene also includes an additional 'angle' band that contains the approximate incidence angle from ellipsoid in degrees at every point. This band is generated by interpolating the 'incidenceAngle' property of the 'geolocationGridPoint' gridded field provided with each asset. Each scene was pre-processed with Sentinel-1 Toolbox using the following steps: Thermal noise removal Radiometric calibration Terrain correction using SRTM 30 or ASTER DEM for areas greater than 60 degrees latitude, where SRTM is not available. The final terrain-corrected values are converted to decibels via log scaling (10*log10(x)). For more information about these pre-processing steps, please refer to the Sentinel-1 Pre-processing article. For further advice on working with Sentinel-1 imagery, see Guido Lemoine's tutorial on SAR basics and Mort Canty's tutorial on SAR change detection. This collection is computed on-the-fly. If you want to use the underlying collection with raw power values (which is updated faster), see COPERNICUS/S1_GRD_FLOAT.

Pixel Selection • Select pixels from rasters with conditional statements and boolean operators;

• Select from multiple bands and images to create a single selection;

• Create new image and transfer selected pixels to new image.

Charts, Histograms, and Time Series

• Create a histogram graph from band values of an image collection

• Create a time series graph from band values of an image collection

Surface water in arid regions is essential to many organisms including large mammals of conservation concern. For many regions little is known about the extent, ecology and hydrology of ephemeral waters, because they are challenging to map given their ephemeral nature and small sizes. Our goal was to advance surface water knowledge by mapping and monitoring ephemeral water from the wet to dry seasons across the Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) transfrontier conservation area of southern Africa (300,000 km2). We mapped individual waterholes for six time points each year from mid-2017 to mid-2020, and described their presence, extent, duration, variability, and recurrence. We further analyzed a wide range of physical and landscape aspects of waterhole locations, including soils, geology, and topography, to climate and soil moisture. We identified 2.1 million previously unmapped ephemeral waterholes (85-89% accuracy) that seasonally extend across 23.5% of the study area. We confirmed a distinct ‘blue wave’ with ephemeral water across the region peaking at the end of the rainy season. We observed a wide range of waterhole types and sizes, with large variances in seasonal and interannual hydrology. We found that ephemeral surface water spatiotemporal patterns were was associated with soil type; loam soils were most likely to hold water for longer periods in the study area. From the wettest time period to the driest, there was a ~44,000 km2 (62%) decrease in ephemeral water extent across the region—these dramatic seasonal fluctuations have implications for wildlife movement. A warmer and drier climate, expected human population growth, and associated agricultural expansion and development may threaten these sensitive and highly variable water resources and the wildlife that depend on them.

This contains Google Earth Engine code to generate water coverage data for Schaffer-Smith et al 2022.

Rapid and accurate estimation of forest biomass are essential to drive sustainable management of forests. Field-based measurements of forest above-ground biomass (AGB) can be costly and difficult to conduct. Multi-source remote sensing data offers the potential to improve the accuracy of modelled AGB predictions. Here, four machine learning methods: Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT), Classification and Regression Trees (CART), and Minimum Distance (MD) were used to construct forest AGB models of Taiyue Mountain forest, Shanxi Province, China using single and multi-sourced remote sensing data and the Google Earth Engine platform. Results showed that the machine learning method that most accurately predicted AGB were GBDT and spectral index for coniferous (R2 = 0.99; RMSE = 65.52 Mg/ha), broadleaved (R2 = 0.97; RMSE = 29.14 Mg/ha), and mixed-species (R2 = 0.97; RMSE = 81.12 Mg/ha) forest types. Models constructed using bivariate variable combinations that included the spectral index improved the AGB estimation accuracy of mixed-species (R2 = 0.99; RMSE = 59.52 Mg/ha) forest types and reduced slightly the accuracy of coniferous (R2 = 0.99; RMSE = 101.46 Mg/ha) and broadleaved (R2 = 0.97; RMSE = 37.59 Mg/ha) forest AGB estimation. Overall, parameterizing machine learning algorithms with multi-source remote sensing variables can improve the prediction accuracy of mixed-species forests.

This dataset contains atmospherically corrected surface reflectance and land surface temperature derived from the data produced by the Landsat 7 ETM+ sensor. These images contain 4 visible and near-infrared (VNIR) bands and 2 short-wave infrared (SWIR) bands processed to orthorectified surface reflectance, and one thermal infrared (TIR) band processed to orthorectified surface temperature. They also contain intermediate bands used in calculation of the ST products, as well as QA bands. Landsat 7 SR products are created with the Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System (LEDAPS) algorithm (version 3.4.0). All Collection 2 ST products are created with a single-channel algorithm jointly created by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Strips of collected data are packaged into overlapping "scenes" covering approximately 170km x 183km using a standardized reference grid. Some assets have only SR data, in which case ST bands are present but empty. For assets with both ST and SR bands, 'PROCESSING_LEVEL' is set to 'L2SP'. For assets with only SR bands, 'PROCESSING_LEVEL' is set to 'L2SR'. Additional documentation and usage examples. Landsat Collection 2 files are publicly available in a Google Cloud Storage bucket on requester-pays basis. The files are indexed in a regularly updated BigQuery table for ease of analysis: earth-engine-public-data.geo_index.landsat_c2_index. Data provider notes: Data products must contain both optical and thermal data to be successfully processed to surface temperature, as ASTER NDVI is required to temporally adjust the ASTER GED product to the target Landsat scene. Therefore, night time acquisitions cannot be processed to surface temperature. A known error exists in the surface temperature retrievals relative to clouds and possibly cloud shadows. The characterization of these issues has been documented by Cook et al., (2014). ASTER GED contains areas of missing mean emissivity data required for successful ST product generation. If there is missing ASTER GED information, there will be missing ST data in those areas. The ASTER GED dataset is created from all clear-sky pixels of ASTER scenes acquired from 2000 through 2008. While this dataset has a global spatial extent, there are areas missing mean emissivity information due to persistent cloud contamination in the ASTER measurements. The USGS further screens unphysical values (emissivity < 0.6) in ASTER GED to remove any emissivity underestimation due to undetected clouds. For any given pixel with no ASTER GED input or unphysical emissivity value, the resulting Landsat ST products have missing pixels. The missing Landsat ST pixels will be consistent through time (1982-present) given the static nature of ASTER GED mean climatology data. For more information refer to landsat-collection-2-surface-temperature-data-gaps-due-missing Note that Landsat 7's orbit has been drifting to an earlier acquisition time since 2017.

This data is long-term lake dynamic (surface elevation, area, and volume) derived from topographic datasets and Landsat imagery in Google Earth Engine.

An accurate global impervious surface map at a resolution of 30-m for 2015 by combining Landsat-8 OLI optical images, Sentinel-1 SAR images and VIIRS NTL images based on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform.