Earth Engine Workshop

Welcome to Google Earth Engine! In the first part of this three-part workshop, you will be introduced to the Earth Engine Playground and get familiar with the interface. We will learn basic JavaScript commands, commonly used functions (or tools), and how to work off of the many example scripts provided by the EE team. You’ll be writing your first script in no time! No previous coding or programming experience is needed.

This is the second part of this three-part workshop. Now that we’re comfortable in Earth Engine, we will visualize recent satellite imagery (Sentinel-2) along California’s Central Coast, the homelands of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. You will learn how to import satellite imagery, filter it to certain places and dates, and filter out cloudy pixels. In the next session of this workshop, we’ll utilize this imagery to study changes on the Earth’s surface over time. Part 1 of this workshop or a working knowledge of GEE is highly recommended to enjoy this session.

In the final part of this three-part workshop together, we will calculate and analyze changes in a vegetation index (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, or NDVI) from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. We’ll compare changes in different vegetation types over time including the seasonal signatures of grasses and forests and the impacts of a recent wildfire within Amah Mutsun homelands. Part 2 of this workshop (Importing Satellite Imagery) is necessary for this session.