Questions tagged [google-earth-engine]
Google's cloud computing platform for geospatial data & analysis at earthengine.google.com.
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Mosaicking Image Collection by Date (day) in Google Earth Engine
I have an image collection of Sentinel-1 data over 3 years filtered by a region of interest that spans 3-4 tiles, and want to know the best way to mosaic all the images (tiles) that were taken on the ...
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Source for high-resolution satellite images free/low-cost?
I am doing a household survey in Kenya, and I need to ensure that my survey team visits every house within a given area. I've been going to google maps and right-clicking on roofs to get coordinates ...
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Concatenating export path in Google Earth Engine
My goal is to store different exports from Earth Engine projects in separate subfolders of a main GEE_export folder on my Google Drive. I'm using Export.image.toDrive:
Export.image.toDrive({
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Moving from Earth Engine image to array for use in sklearn
I've produced a very large multiband image in EE with the goal of classifying it using the classifiers implemented in sklearn (the native ones implemented in EE don't provide enough flexibility for my ...
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Clipping vs Filtering Images with a Polygon - Google Earth Engine
I need to analyze the area defined by a polygon that I drew (call it 'X') of the images of Modis Terrra. What is the difference between filtering bounds and clipping to define the area of interest?
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Extracting pixel values by points and converting to table in Google Earth Engine?
I realise that this question has been asked before as Extract pixel values by points and convert to a table in Google Earth Engine at Stack Overflow. However, I can't get the code to work. It runs, ...
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Understanding tileScale in Earth Engine [closed]
In many Earth Engine functions such as Image.reduceRegions or Image.sample, there is an argument called tileScale. The API documentation generally interprets it as:
A scaling factor used to reduce ...
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What are the min and max values of Map.addLayer on Google Earth Engine? [closed]
I'm starting to play with Google Earth Engine. Following https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/image_visualization I see its possible to set min/max values.
May I ask the meaning of this and ...
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Adding Properties to a feature in Google Earth Engine
Is there a way to add a property to a feature in the GEE. I know that you can edit existing properties with set(), but haven't found a way to add a property.
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What is the difference between sample, sampleRegions, and stratifiedSample in Google Earth Engine?
According to the documentation of GEE
ee.Image.sample() samples the pixels of an image and returns them as a FeatureCollection, in which each feature has 1 property per band in the input image. You ...
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Exporting each image from collection in Google Earth Engine
I am trying to export each image in a filtered stack of Sentinel-1 images and cannot seem to get it right.
Think link suggests using imageCollection.map() and a custom function (such as a geometric ...
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How to stack bands in Google Earth Engine?
I have created an Image collection in GEE and with the help of a function I have computed NDVI index and mapped it to create another collection with NDVI as a band.
Now I want the create a stacked ...
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How do I visualize points in a FeatureCollection based on feature properties using Google Earth Engine?
New user of Earth Engine and Javascript here. I have a FeatureCollection of points. These points are field observations where researchers have marked water sources, and noted whether or not they were ...
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Selecting bands of image collection in Google Earth Engine? [closed]
I want to use the Landsat 8 surface reflection collection (LANDSAT/LC08/C01/T1_SR), which contains the 7 spectral bands plus some extra mask bands. I want to run my algorithm on just the 7 spectral ...
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Extracting pixel time series from Google Earth Engine
I have written a short program in Python to extract a time series for any given pixel for MODIS data stored in the Google Earth Engine. The code is working fine and returns a data frame containing the ...