The Python API provides a programmatic and flexible interface to Earth Engine for automating batch processing tasks, and leveraging the power of the command line.
As Google Earth Engine is getting popular in geoscience and data computation, there are a few things that need to consider before you deep dive. This blog will highlight some of the GEE's limitations and disadvantages. Importantly, Google Earth Engine is free only for non-commercial, non-production use, This means its sole purpose is to serve the educational professional, students, and the nonprofit organization.
The surface of the Earth is continuously changing at many levels; local, regional, national, and global scales. Changes in land use and land cover are pervasive, rapid, and can have significant impacts on people, the economy, and the environment.
Extract Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a 30+ year quasi-global rainfall dataset using Google earth engine API and convert it into. Excel and charts using Python Pandas data frame.
Supervised classification is the technique most often used for the quantitative analysis of remote sensing image data.
Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a 35+ year quasi-global rainfall data set. These tutorials provide a brief idea on how to extract the rainfall data for a given survey point from the CHIRPS global rainfall data set.
Both the Python and JavaScript APIs access the same server-side functionality, but it is different in the syntax and the way we digest.
EVI is similar to Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and can be used to quantify vegetation greenness. However, EVI corrects for some atmospheric conditions and canopy background noise and is more sensitive in areas with dense vegetation.
ESRI 10-meter resolution map of Earth’s land surface from 2020 with High-resolution, open, accurate, comparable, and timely land cover maps in GEE
Today many different indices exist and each one has its own significance in the study. Here are the most popular indices that be calculated from free data satellites.
Digital elevation data is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale. This SRTM V3 product (SRTM Plus) is provided by NASA JPL at a resolution of 1 arc-second (approximately 30m).
Statistics are simple tools that helps us for a better understanding of our images. Spatial statistics is one of the most rapidly growing areas of statistics.
The surface of the Earth is continuously changing at many levels; local, regional, national, and global scales. Changes in land use and land cover are pervasive, rapid, and can have significant impacts on people, the economy, and the environment.
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) quantifies vegetation by measuring the difference between near-infrared (which vegetation strongly reflects) and red light (which vegetation absorbs).
While using remote sensing data several pre-processing steps can be applied that aim at removing artifacts from the images that are not related to the actual reflectance of the land cover such as sensor effects, atmospheric, and illumination conditions.