Crash course: Google Earth Engine with R for geospatial analysis

CMCC@Ca’Foscari online and in presence seminar | Hybrid event
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 | h.02:30- 04:30 pm CET
Aula Funzione, ground floor, Ca’ Foscari Challenge School, VEGA – Venezia-Mestre
Online via Zoom Meeting.
The participation (either in presence or online) in the Seminar is upon registration only. Please register here: https://forms.gle/VfwcEZXkzp3H6WqUA

Speaker:
Giacomo Falchetta, CMCC@Ca’ Foscari, RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Moderator:
Enrica De Cian, CMCC@Ca’ Foscari, RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) and Venice Ca’ Foscari University

Abstract:
Remote sensing techniques enable collecting large amounts of granular information over large areas (e.g. globally) and at different spatio-temporal resolution scales. Satellite data and other GIS products are increasingly available to everyone and for free, and they find applications in a growing number of research areas related to climate change, environmental science, economics, and human development. However, processing highly granular data to fit specific research needs comes at the cost of high computational requirements. Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a free-for-research online toolbox that uses Google cloud computing to quickly process large amounts of spatial data, including data from Google’s very large data catalogue. GEE thus allows to circumnavigate the local download and processing of raw data by moving these tasks on the cloud. In this crash course we show how to use GEE directly from the R programming language, and thus integrate GEE processing steps into conventional coding routines, including the widely used raster and sf R packages. We provide examples of data processing tasks and discuss potential applications.


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HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Hybrid event
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 | h.02:30- 04:30 pm CET
Aula Funzione, ground floor, Ca’ Foscari Challenge School, VEGA – Venezia-Mestre
Online via Zoom Meeting.
The participation (either in presence or online) in the Seminar is upon registration only. Please register here: https://forms.gle/VfwcEZXkzp3H6WqUA

Please note that on-site presence is strongly recommended to allow interactions during the Seminar.
However, we have a limited number of seats available, so please, let us know if you are attending in presence by quickly filling in the registration form.

Requirements

  • ATTENTION: for a better interaction during the seminar, you had better request a Google Earth Engine account as well before the course starts at: https://signup.earthengine.google.com/#!/
  • R 3.6+ and RStudio installed on your computer
  • Basic knowledge of the R programming language
  • An understanding of what spatial data and GIS

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