Overview
Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based platform that combines a vast catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with powerful analysis capabilities. It enables scientists, researchers, and developers to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface. Powered by Google's infrastructure, Earth Engine provides access to over eighty petabytes of geospatial data, including more than thirty years of historical imagery, updated daily. Users can leverage the Earth Engine API in Python and JavaScript to perform custom geospatial analysis using a web-based code editor, facilitating rapid algorithm development and interactive exploration of data. It is used for remote sensing research, predicting disease outbreaks, and natural resource management. Earth Engine is available for commercial, academic, and research purposes.
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