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Google Earth Engine code editor

Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based geospatial processing service. It allows for large scale processing of large datasets.

Registration

You can register to use Google Earth Engine on this website: https://code.earthengine.google.com/register. You need a Google account.

Create the personal cloud project to access Code Editor.

If prompted follow the steps as described below:

Register a Noncommercial or Commercial Cloud project > Unpaid usage / Project type: Academia & Research or No affiliation > Create a new Google Cloud Project for this course / Set Project-ID and optionally Project Name > Continue to summary.

Getting started

We recommend the following introductory material to familiarize yourself with GEE.

Mandatory tutorials (in this order):

  1. Get Started with Earth Engine
  2. Introduction to JavaScript for Earth Engine part 1
  3. Earth Engine Code Editor

Take also Feature Tour to get to know Code Editor environment.

Additional materials:

Consider going through this presentation and this tutorial.

More resources and tutorials: