Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 202, Issue , 2017, Pages 18-27

  Gorelick, Noel ^a   Hancher, Matt ^b   Dixon, Mike ^b   Ilyushchenko, Simon ^b   Thau, David ^b   Moore, Rebecca ^b  

^a GOOGLE   (Switzerland)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Big data; Cloud computing; Data democratization; Earth Engine; Platform

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; CLOUD COMPUTING; DEFORESTATION; ENGINES; FOOD SUPPLY; REMOTE SENSING; SUPERCOMPUTERS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANALYSIS; CLIMATE MONITORING; CLOUD BASED PLATFORMS; COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; DATA DEMOCRATIZATION; GEO-SPATIAL ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED PLATFORM; PLATFORM;

EARTH (PLANET);

CLOUD COVER; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; DISEASE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD SECURITY; INTERNET; NATURAL DISASTER; REMOTE SENSING; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85021781951     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.031     Document Type: Article

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