G4G23 - People and The Planet Lightning Talks

People and the Planet
Lightning Talks
October 2023 | #GeoForGood23

Speakers
1. Nikki Tulley, NASA Indigenous Peoples Initiative, BAERI/NASA Ames Research Center
2. Becky Segal, Arctic Eider Society
3. Rónadh Cox, Williams College
4. Michelle Stuhlmacher, DePaul University
5. Jamon Van Den Hoek, Oregon State University
6. Robin Al-haddad, DevRA International
7. Ollie Ballinger, University College London
8. Ujaval Gandhi, Spatial Thoughts
9. Tyler Erickson, VorGeo
10. Jordi Vera Cartas, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)
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People and the Planet Lightning Talks
Nihimá Nahasdzáán – An Indigenous

Community Earth Observation Event
Nikki Tulley, NASA Indigenous Peoples Initiative, BAERI/NASA
Ames Research Center

Nihimá
Nahasdzáán
Understanding Change and Resiliency
The Navajo Nation covers
71,000 km²
Largest Native
American
Reservation
People living in Approximately
this same area 400,000 enrolled
for 1000s of years tribal members
How can our
What does the
work support the
community
community
value?
efforts?
Valuing all members of the community
What is the
community saying?
Building trust through efforts made to

understand the community work
being done.
Mobilizing Earth Engine through SIKU: The

Indigenous Knowledge Social Network, an
operational platform serving maps in support
of Indigenous-led environmental
stewardship
Becky Segal, Arctic Eider Society

Sanikiluaq,
Nunavut,
Canada
20k+
Users
60k+
Posts
80+
Posts per Day
100+
Communities
2,000,000+ km
Trip Tracks
Daniel Jaaka
Ivujivik
Jaiku Arnatuk
Kangiqsualujjuaq
Brian Kasudluak
Inukjuak
Operational
Data Pipelines
RADARSAT
Constellation Mission
MODIS LANCE
RADARSAT Constellation Mission

Imagery © Government of Canada (2023)
RADARSAT is an official mark of the
Canadian Space Agency
Sinaaq Aajuraq Aukkanniq Aulaniq Tuvak
Floe Edge Lead Polynya Moving Ice Fast Ice
Analysis of historical documents and

land-loss mapping supports a Louisiana
tribe's petition for federal acknowledgment
Rónadh Cox, Williams College

In collaboration with
Chief Devon Parfait &
Elder Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar
Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw

State recognised but not Federally recognised
Photo by Akasha Rabut

Two remarkable people!
Much of southern Louisiana
is just above sea level
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Tribal communities are living at or
near the lowest elevations
Land loss due
to subsidence
and sea-level
rise.
Long-term
average
≈ football field
every 100
minutes.
0.3 %
per year
Land loss due
to subsidence
and sea-level
rise.
Long-term
average
≈ football field
every 100
minutes.
0.3 %
per year
GEE analysis of Landsat
imagery over 32 years:
1986-2019
many thanks
to Sam Roy
1986-1989 2016-2019 Grand Caillou/
Dulac Band area:
75% land
in 1980s
only 56 %
is still land now
Land loss rate:

0.8% per year
Green = land
Blue = open water
Land loss rates experienced by the Grand Caillou/Dulac
Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw are almost triple the regional average
GCDBCC losing land at 0.8% per year

compared to 0.3% average for the region
Photo by Edmund D. Fountain, for ProPublica/The

Native communities are at the
pointy edge of environmental change
Economic and social marginalisation means
they have limited resilience in the face of disaster
Point-aux-Chenes after
Hurricane Ida, Aug 31 2021
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images
The tribe is often low on the list
for responders and aid, and
cannot advocate for themselves
with federal agencies
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has several criteria
that must be met for federal recognition.
The petitioners must show that
"a substantial portion of the group inhabits
a specific area or lives in a community
viewed as American Indian”.
But CGDBCC members are currently spread
across several communities.
We show that tribal ancestors migrated away from lands that are now
inundated. i.e the GCDBCC’s current spread-out distribution
is an inevitable consequence of land loss.
Much of the tribal homeland currently looks like this
But in 19th & 20th C much
was solid livable land
USGS benchmark set in 1932:

“Near mouth of Bayou Couba; 5
feet W of large live oak, 15 feet N
of Mr. Elliott’s fireplace chimney”
Former oak groves and fields
are invaded by salt marsh photo by Rory Doyle
Land loss → loss of livelihood
and security → migration
The challenge:
to demonstrate these impacts on
tribal ancestors in a way that will
be compelling to BIA evaluators
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM)
preserves copies of
federal land patents.
Land acquisition
record for tribal
ancestors Leon and
Pierre Billiot in 1839
Ancestors from tribal

genealogy
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Certificate
No. 1368 The Bureau of Land
To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas Andrew Hodge Junior assignee of Leon Billio, and Pierre Billio, Junior have deposited
Management (BLM)
in the General Land Office of the United States, a certificate of the Register of the Land Office at New
Orleans whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Leon Billio, and Pierre Billio,
preserves copies of
Junior according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1830, entitled “An Act
making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands,” for the Lot (or section) thirty four, in Township
federal land patents.
nineteen of Range eighteen, and Section nineteen, in Township two of Range seven, East in the district
of lands subject to law, at New Orleans, Louisiana, containing three hundred and twenty six acres and
fifty six hundredths of an acre
according to the official plat of the survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land office by the
Land acquisition
Surveyor General, which said tract has been purchased by the said Leon Billio, and Pierre Billio, Junior record for tribal
NOW KNOW YE, That the United States of America, in consideration of the premises, and in
conformity with the several acts of Congress, in such case made and provided, have Given and ancestors Leon and
Granted, and by these presents do give and grant, unto the said Andrew Hodge, Junior and to his
heirs, this said tract above described: To Have and to Hold the same, together with all the rights, Pierre Billiot in 1839
privileges, immunities, and appurtenance of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said
Andrew Hodge, Junior and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In testimony whereof, I, Martin Van Buren PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the seal of the General Land Office to be
hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the Twelfth day of February in the Year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine and of the Independence of the United States the forty sixty
third
By the President, Martin Van Buren
by (illigible name) G.M Garland Recorder (illegible) of the General Land Office
Survey plats
record the exact
location of
each land parcel.
Sect
ion 34
N 2022 satellite data as a land-water binary.
The purple line shows GCDBCC homelands
The green box shows section 34, which has a

land parcel adjacent to the road but is
otherwise open water.
Sect
ion 3
4 The other outlined sections are also
verified early 19th century landholdings
of GCDBCC ancestors, mostly no longer
occupied by tribe members.
4 km
None of the tribal land holdings were open
water in the 19th C.
Sect
ion 3
4
1895 USGS Dulac quadrangle

topographic map
4 km
N Loss of land drove many tribal ancestors to
move north. This happened piecemeal and
resulted in current tribe members being spread
across several townships…but they retain
community and identity.
Sect
ion 3
4
4 km
We are bringing our data records into Google Earth in a form
that will be usable by the tribe and accessible to many
The loss of land continues…
Dulac
Earth Observation Data Integration for

Environmental Justice and Green Space
Equity
Michelle Stuhlmacher, DePaul University

Mural on the post office building
Pilsen, Chicago
#GeoForGood23
Normalized Difference
Vegetation Index (NDVI) from
2011 NAIP imagery of the
southwest side of Chicago.
Pilsen is outlined in white.
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Photo credit: El Paseo Community Garden
Project Objectives
1. Identify, construct, and integrate data products needed for community participatory
processes.
2. Integrate and maintain Earth Observation, environmental, and socioeconomic

indicators in an interactive web-based geospatial platform.
3. Add functionality to that allows users to dynamically create customized indices for
green space planning that reflect their values.
4. Train residents on the tool and build capacity for ongoing use.
#GeoForGood23
Project Objectives
1. Identify, construct, and integrate data products needed for community

participatory processes.
2. Integrate and maintain Earth Observation, environmental, and socioeconomic

indicators in an interactive web-based geospatial platform.
3. Add functionality to that allows users to dynamically create customized indices for
green space planning that reflect their values.
4. Train residents on the tool and build capacity for ongoing use.
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So far…
4,623
visits since launch in April 2022
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So far…
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We’ve seen community workshops..
So far…
#GeoForGood23
…turn into community action.
@HealthyRegions
Thank you
michelle.stuhlmacher@depaul.edu
@M_Stuhlmacher
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Expanding the Humanitarian Horizon with

Google Earth Engine
Jamon Van Den Hoek, Oregon State University

There are 35 million refugees across 137 of the world’s 195 countries who have been displaced by
violence or persecution. Refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and others living in
informal and unrecognized settlements are broadly excluded from Sustainable Development
Goal monitoring, disaster risk reduction, and climate risk impact assessments.
The forced displacement and settlement
of refugees and internally displaced
persons (IDPs) affects individuals,
families, and entire communities around
the world.
Displacement and settlement are often

rapid and data-scarce processes. But
they also yield patterns in built-up and
“natural” landscapes that can be
long-lasting, information rich, and
detectable from space.
In the Conflict Ecology lab at Oregon

State University, we work to expand the
humanitarian horizon through
systematic analysis of these patterns
across the world’s refugee and IDP sites. Pagirinya Refugee Settlement, Uganda
Our earliest work focused on documenting the step-by-step establishment and
expansion of Pagirinya Refugee Settlement in northern Uganda using open Earth
Observation data
We used Landsat time series

and BFAST (a disturbance
detection algorithm) to map
the appearance of dwellings,
roads, and gardens across
Pagirinya in mid 2016 (left).
We also tracked the earliest

evidence of refugee farming in
early 2017 (right).
Friedrich & Van Den Hoek (2020). Breaking ground. Computers, Environ.
and Urban Systems, 82, 101499.
Our earliest work focused on documenting the step-by-step establishment and
expansion of Pagirinya Refugee Settlement in northern Uganda using open Earth
Observation data
Our estimates of the total

settlement area match UNHCR
data though refugee
agriculture had not been
mapped in this detail before.
These results provide

information on settlement
dynamics and land use two
years before OpenStreetMap
data were collected.
Friedrich & Van Den Hoek (2020). Breaking ground. Computers, Environ.
and Urban Systems, 82, 101499.
We are using Earth Engine to automatically detect IDP settlements and estimate
IDP populations even when humanitarian access is blocked
~2 million people were
displaced during the
two-year Tigray Conflict in
north Ethiopia.
Humanitarian access was
blocked, restricting
access to IDP sites.
We trained an IDP site
detection approach with
Sentinel-2 and
Harmonized
Landsat-Sentinel-2 data
on 400 IDP sites.
Our initial results point to
a large number of
previously unmapped IDP
sites across Tigray.
We also used Earth engine to build a novel climate and environmental exposure
index for refugee camps across five countries in East Africa
The index is designed

to aid camp planning
and management
decisions across
climate zones.
We analyzed 11 EO
products available in
the EE Catalog
associated with
flooding, drought,
extreme heat, and
landslides.
Owen, Kruczkiewicz & Van Den Hoek (2023). Indexing climatic and environmental
exposure of refugee camps with a case study in East Africa. Sci. Reports, 13(1).
Rather than being disproportionately exposed, we found that refugee camps in E.
Africa tend to have moderate or relatively low exposure in each country
Kakuma (Kenya) is the only camp

near the top quartile (70%) of
national exposure and is home to the
fourth largest refugee population in
the world.
Six other refugee camps are in the
second-highest quartile of national
exposure, with Pamir (South Sudan)
having the highest exposure at 67%.
These seven camps in the third or
fourth quartile are home to 677,820
(41%) of the total population across
study refugee camps.
Thanks for your attention!
Please check out the following resources on using Earth Engine in
humanitarian applications:
• NASA ARSET training on Humanitarian Applications beav.es/Tt8 with an
intermediate training planned for June 2024
• “Humanitarian Applications” chapter in Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with
Google Earth Engine book beav.es/TtD
If you are interested in collaborating or joining the Conflict Ecology lab, please
get in touch:
Jamon Van Den Hoek conflict-ecology.org
vandenhj@oregonstate.edu @JamonVDH
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Goal: Pivot to an equitable, scalable platform

Create a stable, scalable navigation and IA to solve wayfinding. Move
discovery out of the nav to Launcher and relevant contexts.
Goal: Focus on workflows and users, not products and projects

Enable CSM/CSP and others to create user experiences based on how the user
thinks, not our product silos.
Customer Says:
“ I can discover, procure, and use 1P and 3P products with ease.”
“ I can think about my applications & services first and foremost.”
nav to Launcher and relevant contexts.
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Finding Home: Participatory

geospatial mapping with Rohingya
refugees
Robin Al-haddad, DevRA International
Their World Project: Voices of Rohingya Youth
Goal: National Geographic Society
funded project which aims to
document Rohingya refugees’
perspectives on their
migration.
● Work with Rohingya youth in

refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar,
Bangladesh.
● We aim to record their stories
by empowering them to
document and tell their own
stories.
Team
Researchers from:
● Human Rights Practice (HRTS)
program at the University of
Arizona.
● Artolution, a community-based
art organization (NGO) that
seeks to ignite positive social
change through collaborative art
projects.
● Center for Peace Studies at
North-South University in
Dhaka.
Participatory Mapping
● Rohingya teaching artists
(from Artolution) helped us
interview Rohingya youth.
● Hands-on learning session with
Rohingya artists in the refugee
camps (July 2022).
Draw and Tell
● Conducted
draw-and-tell
exercises and
responses were Kosmida draws camp life
then added to the

map to better
contextualize their
stories. Md. Sufara draws his home
Adolescent girls draw Triptychs of their

migration:
1. Houses burned down by military;
2. Fleeing across the Naf river;
3. Finding refuge in Bangladesh
Challenges
● Limited cellular
network and internet
in the refugee camps;
& Limited electricity.
● Using Google Earth

Pro (desktop app).
● Interviewer caches
the mapping data for
use offline.
● Historical Imagery.
● Transferred data to
Google Earth web
later on.
Other Challenges
Spelling Place Names:
● Inconsistencies in spelling (e.g.,
Zabbar Fara vs. Jabbar Para)
● Common place names used by the
Rohingya vs. Official government
names (e.g., Dhunse Para, a.k.a. Koe
Tan Kauk)
● Myanmar government has
removed many Rohingya village
names from official maps.
● Linguistic minorities identity is
interwoven with identity of place.
Participatory Mapping with Populations Suffering
Geographical Injustices
● Can facilitate agency to those
suffering from geographical
injustices.
● Helps process trauma and validates
their lived experiences.
● Provides a meaningful way for
survivors to visualize the
geographical injustices done to them.
● Narrative-based geovisualization
provides greater insights to policy
makers and can inspire change.
Impact
The Rohingya have not seen their homes since 2017:
“From the very beginning they [the Myanmar

government] removed our names from the past.
Since 1942, we were not allowed to do many things.
When we came here [to Bangladesh] we learned how
to draw, and how to use a pencil, and how to use
colors. And now we are learning how to draw our own
maps. The military tried to remove our names but
now we are making our own map so that people will
know our names. I am very happy. The Myanmar
government is not able to remove our names from the
history because we are learning how to do maps right
now.”
Boshir Ullah finding home
“When I see my house here, I am crying on the
inside. It’s like being home again.”
~Boshir Ullah (age 66, Mandolin player and Rohingya

artist)
Thank You!
Check out the

map here
Robin Al-haddad
robinalhaddad@arizona.edu
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Create a stable, scalable navigation and IA to solve wayfinding. Move
discovery out of the nav to Launcher and relevant contexts.
Goal: Focus on workflows and users, not products and projects

Enable CSM/CSP and others to create user experiences based on how the user
thinks, not our product silos.
Customer Says:
“ I can discover, procure, and use 1P and 3P products with ease.”
“ I can think about my applications & services first and foremost.”
nav to Launcher and relevant contexts.
#GeoForGood23
PIXEL-WISE T-TEST: A new algorithm for

persistent building damage detection in
synthetic aperture radar imagery
Ollie Ballinger, University College London

Abstract
This paper proposes a novel method for the generation of building-level
damage estimates using a Pixel-Wise T-Test (PWTT) applied to Synthetic
Aperture Radar imagery. Despite being lightweight and only using open
access data, the algorithm produces results with accuracy statistics
rivalling State of the Art methods that use deep learning and expensive
high-resolution imagery. The algorithm is deployed in Google Earth Engine,
enabling the generation of near-real time damage maps that allow
humanitarian practitioners to immediately get the count of damaged
buildings in a user-specific area of interest.
Problem
Satellite imagery is used extensively to detect damaged buildings. The highest
levels of accuracy are generally achieved using Deep Learning and Very High
Resolution optical satellite imagery. However, such approaches have significant
limitations:
• Financially and computationally expensive
• Optical imagery is not consistently available
• High-resolution imagery must be tasked
• Clouds.
• Neural Networks require retraining to be accurate in different geographies.
Solution
Sentinel-1 SAR imagery is free, has a high revisit rate, and can penetrate clouds.
Static structures are highly consistent in multitemporal imagery. A destructive
event results in a change in backscatter amplitude, but relatively low variance in
pixel values in both the pre- and post- shock periods for damaged buildings. A
standard T-test can be used to calculate the ratio of the change in
amplitude to general pixel variance, detecting collapsed buildings.
Pre-Processing
1. Sentinel-1 imagery is disaggregated by orbital Orbit
trajectory (ω) to ensure consistency in the look
angle.
2. Scenes are then separated by polarization; VV is

more sensitive to linearly oriented structures Polarization
such as buildings tend to preserve the
coherence of the polarimetric signal, while VH is
more sensitive to randomly oriented structures.
Time Period
3. Scenes are split into pre- and post- shock
samples using a cutoff date (e.g. the onset of
war, or date of an earthquake).
Calculating the Test Statistic
A standard T-test is computed for each unique combination of orbital

trajectory (ascending/descending) and polarization (VV/VH). There are
thus four T-values per pixel
The final test statistic is the average of the absolute T-values; A cutoff value of the test
statistic is chosen based on the degrees of freedom and conventional statistical
significance thresholds.
Model Output
The result is a damage probability raster, in which each pixel value reflects
the average of four T-values. On the right, the PWTT algorithm is applied to
Beirut following the explosion in August 2020.
Model Output
Building-level inference is carried out using open-access global building

footprint dataset. Mean pixel value of the damage probability raster is
calculated for each footprint and added as a feature.
Ukraine
To assess the accuracy of this workflow, the PWTT was applied to Ukraine
and damage predictions were compared with manually annotated building
damage labels from UNOSAT:
Mariupol
TP
TN
FP
FN
Mariupol
TP
TN
FP
FN
Accuracy Assessment
The cities of Mariupol and Irpin suffered some of the most extensive
damage from the war. The PWTT algorithm is run on both cities using a
cutoff date of March 1st, 2022, yielding two datasets of building footprints
with associated damage probability values. Receiver-Operator Curves for
Irpin and Mariupol yield an area under the curve of 0.82 and 0.75,
respectively:
Irpin Mariupol
Accuracy Assessment
The PWTT outperforms the SOTA for SAR damage detection (InSAR
interferometry) and recently published work (Aimiati et. al., 2022) that uses
a log intensity ratio to detect damaged buildings in Ukraine.
AUC Precision Recall TP TN FP FN
PWTT 0.74 0.68 0.52 3068 6158 2831 1426
InSAR 0.70 0.64 0.49 2895 6088 2901 1599
Log Intensity 0.52 0.45 0.32 2037 5366 3623 2457

Ratio
Thanks!
Twitter: oballinger
Website: oballinger.github.io
Email: o.ballinger@ucl.ac.uk
Creating Publication Quality Charts with

Earth Engine
Ujaval Gandhi, Spatial Thoughts

Spatial Thoughts
● A learning platform for modern Spatial Thoughts OpenCourseWare
geospatial technologies.
● Free and open learning content for ● End-to-End Google Earth Engine
QGIS, Python, GDAL and Google Earth ● Google Earth Engine for Water
Engine. Resources Management
○ Learning materials used by 1 million+ ● Earth Engine Advanced Concepts
users every year.
○ All material is licensed under CC-BY
● Online academy for cohort-based
A new course on data visualization
instructor-led classes.
○ Trained participants from over 100
Creating Publication Quality Charts
countries.
with Google Earth Engine
Overview of GEE Charting Capabilities
● Google Earth Engine uses the Google Charts Tools to create interactive
charts.
● Charting functions are available in the Javascript API under the ui module
● Charts can be viewed in the Code Editor.
● Charts can be downloaded as PNG or SVG files.
● Charts can be added to Apps as Widgets.
Let’s see some charts!
Time-Series Charts Advanced Charts
● Simple Time-Series ● Dual Y-Axis Chart
● Time-Series with Trendlines ● Combo Chart
● Time-Series at Multiple Locations ● Transect Chart
● Multi-Year Time-Series ● Multiple Charts
Image Charts DataTable Charts

● Histogram ● Annotation Charts
● Scatter Chart ● Stacked Bar Charts
● Table Chart ● Box Plots
● Colored Bar Charts
FeatureCollection Charts ● Spectral Profile Charts
● Pie Chart
● Column Chart
Charting Function: ui.Chart.image.series()
Chart Type: LineChart with Multiple Series
Dataset: TerraClimate
Chart Type: LineChart with Trendline
Dataset: CHIRPS Pentad
Charting Function: ui.Chart.image.seriesByRegion()
Chart Type: LineChart with Multiple Series
Dataset: GFS: Global Forecast System
Charting Function: ui.Chart.image.doySeriesByYear()
Chart Type: LineChart with Smoothing
Dataset: MODIS 16-day Vegetation Indices (VI)
Charting Function: ui.Chart.image.histogram()
Chart Type: ColumnChart
Dataset: Harmonized Global Night Time Lights (1992-2020)
Charting Function: ui.Chart.feature.groups()
Chart Type: ScatterChart with Custom Markers
Dataset: Sentinel-2 Level-2A
Charting Function: ui.Chart.feature.byFeature()
Chart Type: PieChart with Custom Slice Options
Dataset: ESA WorldCover 2021
Chart Type: ColumnChart with Background Color
Dataset: WRI Global Power Plant Database v1.3
Advanced Charts
Chart Type: ColumnChart with Dual Y-Axis
Dataset: Sentinel-2 Level-2A and CHIRPS
Chart Type: ComboChart with Line and Bars
Dataset: CHIRPS
Chart Type: AreaChart
Dataset: VIIRS Annual NightTime Lights
DataTable Charts
DataTable Format
● A format to hold two-dimensional data with columns and rows.
● Allows you to create advanced charts with annotations, intervals, custom
styles etc.
● You can use GEE API to format your data in the DataTable format to use
advanced styling options.
Charting Function: ui.Chart()
Chart Type: ColumnChart with Annotations
Dataset: User requirements of Big Earth Data - Survey 2019
Chart Type: Stacked BarChart with Annotations
Dataset: User requirements of Big Earth Data - Survey 2019
Chart Type: ColumnChart with Style Roles
Dataset: Hansen Global Forest Change v1.10
Box Plots
● Also known as Whisker plots. Google Chart Tools can create Box Plots using
● A plot that shows the spread of the values the DataTable format.
at chosen intervals.
● Instead of just displaying the mean or the
median value on the Y-Axis, you can
display values at different ranges.
○ Minimum
○ 25th percentile
○ 50th percentile (median)
○ 75th percentile
○ Maximum
● Optionally display outliers as points
Chart Type: LineChart with Boxes and Bars Intervals
Chart Type: LineChart with Boxes, Bars and Points Intervals
Chart Type: LineChart with Boxes and Bars Intervals
Dataset: Sentinel-2 Level-2A and ESA WorldCover 2021
Check out the full course material and all other
Summary free learning resources at
● ✅ Google Earth Engine and Google

Chart Tools offer a lot of advanced
https://spatialthoughts.com/
charting capabilities.
● ✅ Allows you to create static and
interactive charts right within the Earth
Engine Code Editor.
● ✅ Ability to reproduce the visualization
along with your analysis workflows.
● ✅ Learning the DataTable format will
allow you to create advanced charts with
little extra effort.
Collaboration: Upping your Game

Tyler Erickson, VorGeo

Earth Engine Developer Relations
Collaboration
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you them
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them other
them
you
To evaluate a potential collaboration,
you need to know what is important
to the entity you will collaborate with!
And what is important to you!
What could be important?
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Risks!
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Risks!
● “My idea will be stolen!”

Risks!

● Loss of time / $
Risks!

● Agency within an org
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Risks!

● Awkwardness
Risks!

● Awkwardness
● Moving slower (short term)
Risks!

● Awkwardness
● Moving slower (short term)
● Reputation
The
Evolution
of Trust
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The
Evolution
of Trust
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The
Evolution
of Trust
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How do you find collaborators?
SatCamp!
Earth Engine Developer Relations
SatCamp! www.satcamp.xyz
Fix docs!
File issues!
File bugs!
The use of Google mapping tools within the

Unified Information System on Basins and
Water in Mexico process
Jordi Vera Cartas, Facultad Latinoamericana de
Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and Veracruz´s
assembly of environmental initiatives and
defense (LAVIDA)
Greetings from Coatepec, Veracruz, México. Hope you are

enjoying the gathering. Last minute health issues of my wife
prevented my participation. Hope we meet later on!!!
Collaborative water data and
information system
Name: Unified Information System on Basins and Water in
Mexico
Period: 2021-2024
Goal: Design, integrate, test, and set up a unified,

standardized, open access, and collaborative tool, with
information about the socio-natural hydrological cycle in the
water basins of Mexico in order to diminish uncertainty
related with water data veracity, and the integration of a tool
designed conjointly by all sectors involved in water
governance.
Financing: National Council for Humanities, Sciences and Visit our website:
Technologies https://agua.conahcyt.mx/cuencas/

#GeoForGood23
Mapping tools within the Project
Goal: Link water mapping data and information from

different stakeholders
Different technical and political strategies to

accomplish that strategies
a) Embedding (NGO Global Water Watch and its

community based water monitoring).
b) Repository (National Institute of

Statistics and Geography of
hidrogeologhical maps).
c) Use of APPis (National Water

Commission and water permits)
#GeoForGood23
Including user participation in map visualization
Before feedback After feedback
FOTO SIN RETRO Participatory workshops with 78 map and

information water generators and users
Types of users: Academia, students, water

operating organisms, non governmental
organizations, federal, state and municipal
governments, social movements and private
sector
CUSTOMER SAYS AROUND THE WEBSITE AND
MAPPING TOOLS:
THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

Collaborative mapping at a regional
level: Water Guardians
MY MAPS: Map Layers shared by several

organization and stakeholders for example
Custodios del Archipiélago, Global Water Watch,
SENDAS, CEMDA and others about
water, the problems and challenges it faces and
the actions towards a sustainable management of
watersheds in the center of Veracruz.
Example: https://acortar.link/Duxf2u
Mapping tools for citizen mobilization
● Using Google earth to raise public awareness

on urban deforestation environmental
problems
● Informing neighbours of infrastructure impact

and land use change in the region since
2003-2023
You tube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGZ1i6XGRkI
● News release using the research developed

with satellite images
Article:
https://avcnoticias.com.mx/reportaje-especial-veracruz/
especiales-avc/346241/nido-del-halc-in-tal-i-89-orboles
-y-no-present-i-manifestaci-in-de-impacto-cuestionan.
html
Video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2k1a41TzXJM
r e st. Please contact us at: jordivera@gmail.com
r i nte te?
r y ou bora SIUCAM public version: https://agua.conahcyt.mx/cuencas/
s fo o lla
n k o c
Tha lling t
SIUCAM developing version:
i https://dev-conacyt-agua.numeralia.info/
¿W
Guardianes del agua:
https://www.riaaver.org/mapoteca-de-guardianes
Thanks to CONAHCyT and the

PRONACES agua program
#GeoForGood23
Thank you!

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October 2023 | #GeoForGood23

Geo for Good Summit 2023

Nihimá Nahasdzáán – An Indigenous

Geo for Good Summit 2023

Building trust through efforts made to

Mobilizing Earth Engine through SIKU: The

Geo for Good Summit 2023

RADARSAT Constellation Mission

Analysis of historical documents and

Geo for Good Summit 2023

Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw

Photo by Akasha Rabut

Land loss rate:

GCDBCC losing land at 0.8% per year

Photo by Edmund D. Fountain, for ProPublica/The

USGS benchmark set in 1932:

Ancestors from tribal

The purple line shows GCDBCC homelands

The green box shows section 34, which has a

1895 USGS Dulac quadrangle

Earth Observation Data Integration for

Geo for Good Summit 2023

2. Integrate and maintain Earth Observation, environmental, and socioeconomic

1. Identify, construct, and integrate data products needed for community

2. Integrate and maintain Earth Observation, environmental, and socioeconomic

Expanding the Humanitarian Horizon with

Jamon Van Den Hoek, Oregon State University

Geo for Good Summit 2023

Displacement and settlement are often

In the Conﬂict Ecology lab at Oregon

We used Landsat time series

We also tracked the earliest

Our estimates of the total

These results provide

The index is designed

Kakuma (Kenya) is the only camp

Goal: Pivot to an equitable, scalable platform

Goal: Focus on workflows and users, not products and projects

Finding Home: Participatory

● Work with Rohingya youth in

then added to the

Adolescent girls draw Triptychs of their

● Using Google Earth

“From the very beginning they [the Myanmar

~Boshir Ullah (age 66, Mandolin player and Rohingya

Check out the

Goal: Pivot to an equitable, scalable platform

Goal: Focus on workflows and users, not products and projects

PIXEL-WISE T-TEST: A new algorithm for

Geo for Good Summit 2023

2. Scenes are then separated by polarization; VV is

A standard T-test is computed for each unique combination of orbital

Building-level inference is carried out using open-access global building

AUC Precision Recall TP TN FP FN

PWTT 0.74 0.68 0.52 3068 6158 2831 1426

InSAR 0.70 0.64 0.49 2895 6088 2901 1599

Log Intensity 0.52 0.45 0.32 2037 5366 3623 2457

Creating Publication Quality Charts with

Geo for Good Summit 2023

Image Charts DataTable Charts

● ✅ Google Earth Engine and Google

Collaboration: Upping your Game