Detection of Large-Scale Floods Using Google Earth Engine and Google Colab
This paper presents an operational approach for detecting floods and establishing flood extent using Sentinel-1 radar imagery with Google Earth Engine. The methodology relies on change detection, comparing pre-event and post-event images.
Rosa Johary +7 more
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Monitoring urban heat island through google earth engine. Potentialities and difficulties in different cities of the United States [PDF]
The aim of this work is to exploit the large-scale analysis capabilities of the innovative Google Earth Engine platform in order to investigate the temporal variations of the Urban Heat Island phenomenon as a whole. A intuitive methodology implementing a
A. Nascetti +6 more
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Responses of seasonal indicators to extreme droughts in southwest China [PDF]
Significant impact of extreme droughts on human society and ecosystem has occurred in many places of the world, for example, Southwest China (SWC). Considerable research concentrated on analyzing causes and effects of droughts in SWC, but few studies ...
Ge, Zhongxi +8 more
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AGGREGATING CLOUD-FREE SENTINEL-2 IMAGES WITH GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE [PDF]
Cloud coverage is one of the biggest concerns in spaceborne optical remote sensing, because it hampers a continuous monitoring of the Earth’s surface.
M. Schmitt +4 more
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CHINA FOREST COVER EXTRACTION BASED ON GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE [PDF]
Forest cover rate is the principal indice to reflect the forest acount of a nation and region. In view of the difficulty of accurately calculating large-scale forest area by traditional statistical survey methods, it is proposed to extract China forest ...
Y. T. Guo +9 more
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Hydrological Foundation as a Basis for a Holistic Environmental Flow Assessment of Tropical Highland Rivers in Ethiopia [PDF]
The sustainable development of water resources includes retaining some amount of the natural flow regime in water bodies to protect and maintain aquatic ecosystem health and the human livelihoods and wellbeing dependent upon them.
Abebe, Wubneh B. +10 more
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Building a Better Urban Picture: Combining Day and Night Remote Sensing Imagery
Urban areas play a very important role in global climate change. There is increasing need to understand global urban areas with sufficient spatial details for global climate change mitigation.
Qingling Zhang +3 more
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Google Earth Engine: A Global Analysis and Future Trends
The continuous increase in the volume of geospatial data has led to the creation of storage tools and the cloud to process data. Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a cloud-based platform that facilitates geoprocessing, making it a tool of great interest to the
Andrés Velastegui-Montoya +5 more
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TRACKING THE GODZILLA DUST PLUME USING GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE PLATFORM [PDF]
As part of Earth’s nutrient cycle, a layer of air travels every summer from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. In June 2020, the thickest and densest dust plume traveled over 5000 miles along with the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) from Africa towards the USA ...
A. B. Asare-Ansah +10 more
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Downscaling TRMM Monthly Precipitation Using Google Earth Engine and Google Cloud Computing
Accurate precipitation data at high spatiotemporal resolution are critical for land and water management at the basin scale. We proposed a downscaling framework for Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation products through integrating ...
Abdelrazek Elnashar +11 more
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