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Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

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Gorelick, Noel, Hancher, Matt, Dixon, Mike, Ilyushchenko, Simon, Thau, David, Moore, Rebecca·2017·Remote Sensing of Environment

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Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based platform for planetary-scale geospatial analysis that brings Google's massive computational capabilities to bear on a variety of high-impact societal issues including deforestation, drought, disaster, disease, food security, water management, climate monitoring and environmental protection. It is unique in the field as an integrated platform designed to empower not only traditional remote sensing scientists, but also a much wider audience that lacks the technical capacity needed to utilize traditional supercomputers or large-scale commodity cloud computing resources.

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Authors: Gorelick, N., Hancher, M., Dixon, M., Ilyushchenko, S., Thau, D., & Moore, R.
Venue: Remote Sensing of Environment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2017-12
Volume: 202
Pages: 18-27
ISSN: 0034-4257 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.031
OpenAlex: W2725897987
Cited by: 14,719
References: 3
FWCI: 410.41
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: hybrid
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creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)

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