🌍 Google Earth Engine (GEE) tutorial - Asya Rahlin 🌏

Please make a Google Earth Engine account if you want to follow along and run your own code in class.

This tutorial will introduce the following:

0. How to make a Google Earth Engine account. This process can take several days, sometimes a week. You will want to create an account ASAP.
1. Lesson 1. — Basic javascript commands
2. Lesson 2. — Understanding image and feature collections
3. Lesson 3. — Finding and loading GEE data, importing your own data, and mapping it
4. Lesson 4. — Clipping, reducers, performing calculations like NDVI, extracting GEE data from imported points, exporting the appended data to your google drive

Link to lessons 1-4: https://code.earthengine.google.com/3059f317ec099b259288d48631acc17c

For lessons 1-4, you will need to download the following:

• IL_BNDY_County data
• gnatcatcher_data.csv

The easiest way is to just download the entire aarahlin.github.io repository. Go here: https://github.com/aarahlin/aarahlin.github.io, click Code, and download zip. Be sure to unzip the folders and make sure the IL Boundary data is in a single folder.

5. Lesson 5. — Supervised and unsupervised classification

Link to lesson 5: https://code.earthengine.google.com/2e8167b7a222b17b6f366483c78d4dfb

If you want an entire course on Google Earth Engine, you can find one here: https://courses.spatialthoughts.com/end-to-end-gee.html

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