Google Earth Engine Training

Gennadii Donchyts, Corine ten Velden, Arjen Haag, Jaap Schellekens, Hessel Winsemius
 Agenda

Time Description Source

09:00 Start

09:05 Introduction of the course

09:10 Google Earth Engine and its possibilities 1. Introduction.pptx

09:30 Tutorials 2. Basic.pptx
GEE_Background_and_Exercises
Playground; images and image
collections; image composites; spectral
indices (NDVI, NDWI);
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 Tutorial 2. Basic.pptx

GEE_Background_and_Exercises
Importing and exporting rasters and
vectors; exporting videos; elevation
datasets;
12:30 - 13:15 Lunchbreak
Agenda

13:15 Optical Image Analysis 3. Optical Image Analysis.pptx

GEE_Advanced_Optical
DN, TOA, SR; cloud masking;
topographic analysis; supervised
classification; image processing;
harmonic fit

14:15 Surface Water Detection 4. Water Detection.pptx

GEE_Advanced_Water
spectral water indices;
thresholding; commission/omission
errors

15:15 Break

15:30 SAR Analysis 5. SAR Analysis.pptx

GEE_Advanced_SAR
GRD;polarization modes; speckle
noise and filters; water detection

17:00 Wrap-up Feedback

Earth Engine:
Google's Cloud Platform for
Big Earth Data Analytics
Google Earth Earth Engine

3-D Globe Geospatial

Visualization Analysis
 Requests Results

add mosaic

Geospatial filter
join
distance
Algorithmic
Datasets focal_min
reduce
convolve Primitives

Storage and Compute

 The Earth Engine Public Data Catalog

Landsat 4, 5, 7, 8 MODIS Terrain Land Cover Atmospheric

Raw, TOA, SR, ... Daily, NBAR, LST, ... SRTM, GTOPO, NED, ... GlobCover, NLCD, ... NOAA NCEP, OMI, ...

... and many more, updating daily!

> 200 public datasets > 4000 new images every day
> 5 million images > 5 petabytes of data
Earth Engine: Origins
Global Forest Watch
JavaScript & Python API
// Make a median composite from two years of Landsat 7.
// Load the image collection.
var collection = ee.ImageCollection('LANDSAT/LE7_L1T');
// Filter it down to 2011 and 2012.
var filtered = collection.filterDate('2011-01-01', '2012-12-31');
// For each pixel, for each band, calculate the median and make an image
// of the result. The median tends to remove clouds, shadows, data gaps.
var medianImage = filtered.median();
// Add the image to a map.
Map.addLayer(medianImage, {bands:['B3', 'B2', 'B1'], min:35, max:170});

Code Editor link:

https://code.earthengine.google.com/d7e0877fe7ad644bd6b50e6843150469
Timelapses
Iranian Bay

Colorado River

Pacullpa, Peru

Singapore
 Flood Extent Mapping
Focus Area
Mekong river and tributaries from Vientiane, Lao PDR, to
the South China Sea. (With adjustments the tool can easily Initial Results
be used elsewhere.)

Thailand Example: Modified Normalized Difference Index

(8th percentile) over the Landsat 8 period.
This normally represents flood water.

Water detection

Thailand Example: Modified Normalized Difference Index

(40th percentile) over the Landsat 8 period.
This normally represents permanent water.
Contact: jaap.schellekens@deltares.nl
 Surface water mapping for Australia
Comparison of detected water mask to OpenStreetMap water

http://osm-water.appspot.com – water mask for Murray & Darling Basin, Australia

Contact: gennaii.donchyts@deltares.nl Donchyts et. al. 2016, http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/5/386

http://osm-water.appspot.com
(Arsen et.al., 2014)
Area

get cloud-free images

extract boundary

interpolate
Reconstruction of reservoir surface area using optical satellite imagery

Water mask with water occurrence image

Surface area time series estimation (2013-2015)

 Coastline Extraction – Zandmotor

Contact: josh.friedman@deltares.nl
 Participatory DEM generation

Contact: hessel.winsemius@deltares.nl
 Height above the nearest drainage (HAND)

Contact: gennaii.donchyts@deltares.nl
 Height above the nearest drainage (HAND)

Contact: gennaii.donchyts@deltares.nl
 Height above the nearest drainage (HAND)

Contact: gennaii.donchyts@deltares.nl
 Aqua Monitor

http://aqua-monitor.appspot.com

Tehri Dam

Contact: gennadii.donchyts@deltares.nl
 Aqua Monitor

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 Aqua Monitor

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 Aqua Monitor

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 Aqua Monitor

Contact: gennadii.donchyts@deltares.nl http://aqua-monitor.appspot.com

 Aqua Monitor

Contact: gennadii.donchyts@deltares.nl http://aqua-monitor.appspot.com

 Aqua Monitor

Contact: gennadii.donchyts@deltares.nl http://aqua-monitor.appspot.com

 Aqua Monitor

Contact: gennadii.donchyts@deltares.nl http://aqua-monitor.appspot.com

Questions?