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Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based platform for large-scale geospatial data analysis, offering access to over 30 petabytes of data, including satellite imagery (remote sensing) and climate datasets. These data are typically collected by collected by public agencies as NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). At the moment it holds over 30,000 terrabyte (30 million giga byte) of data. It enables users to process and analyze data without the need for local storage, leveraging cloud computing for scalability. Earth Engine provides APIs for JavaScript and Python, along with pre-built algorithms for tasks like image processing and machine learning. It supports global visualization, data export, and collaboration, making it ideal for applications in environmental monitoring, climate change research, disaster response, and natural resource management.
Access is free to all data and tools, for academic use. There are some steps you need to take to gain academic access.
Use your @student.rug.nl or @rug.nl account for registration (as proof of your academic affiliation)
Click Register for a Noncommercial or Commercial Cloud Project
Select Unpaid usage, choose Academia and Research from the dropdown menu, click Next
Click Create a new cloud project, select No Organisation from the dropdown, use as Project-ID ee-yourname-apce2024 (replace yourname by your name) and keeping the Project Name unchanged, click Continue with Registration, and click confirm
If get an error message saying you have to accept the terms of service. Click the link that is given by Terms of Service
Check the box for Terms of Service
Go back to your previous page where you tried to register the cloud project, and click Continue to Summary
Note it can take 1-3 days for your application to be registered and approved.
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