5. Earth Engine Apps

Acknowledgements

• Google Earth Engine Team (EE guide)

Objective

The objective of today's session is to learn the first steps towards building your own interactive Earth Engine App.

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Introduction

Earth Engine Apps are dynamic, shareable user interfaces for Earth Engine analyses. With Apps, experts can use simple UI elements to leverage Earth Engine's data catalog and analytical power, for experts and non-experts alike to use.

Refer to the Earth Engine Apps guide to learn more about building and publishing your app.

Examples

Learning from example is a good starting point. The following apps provide an overview of possible applications.

Curated Applications

Earth Engine Appswww.earthengine.app

GitHub - philippgaertner/awesome-earth-engine-apps: A collection of all public Google Earth Engine Apps.GitHub

List of all (1.958) available Google Earth Engine Apps and user-specific App Galleries

Code examples

Landsat Time Series Explorerjstnbraaten.users.earthengine.app

Selected Apps

Hydrosphere

Global Surface Water Explorerglobal-surface-water.appspot.com

Bathymetry from Spacegena.users.earthengine.app

Global Intertidal Changewww.intertidal.app

Biosphere

Forest Monitoring, Land Use & Deforestation Trends | Global Forest Watchwww.globalforestwatch.org

Forest Landscape Integrity Indexwww.forestintegrity.com

Atmosphere

NO2gena.users.earthengine.app

Global 1-km Cloud Cover - EarthEnvwww.earthenv.org

Land cover

Dynamic World - 10m global land cover dataset in Google Earth EngineWorldResources

lulc_area_time_seriesdgg321982.users.earthengine.app

Others

urban-lightsgena.users.earthengine.app

green-apartheidzandersamuel.users.earthengine.app

Resources

Earth Engine Apps guide

The Earth Engine Apps guide provides an overview on the User Interface API, available Widgets, Panels and Events.

Note that in your code editor, you can find additional examples of

Geo for Good

2020 Geo for Good Summitearthoutreachonair.withgoogle.com

Breakout Sessionssites.google.com

Breakout Sessionssites.google.com

Breakout Sessionssites.google.com

Youtube

https://earthoutreachonair.withgoogle.com/events/heyearthengine2earthoutreachonair.withgoogle.com

Medium

Share your analyses using Earth Engine AppsMedium

New Earth Engine features to speed app workflowsMedium

Visualizing changing landscapes with Google Earth EngineMedium