Presentations videos are available on YouTube! Day 1: Monday, June 297:45am: Shuttle pickup from The Wild Palms 8:00am: Shuttle pickup from and Avatar Hotel Location: Plymouth 2 Lobby
9-9:30am: Welcome, Overview & Housekeeping
Presenter: Dave Thau, Manager of Developer Relations, Earth Engine and Earth Outreach
Location: Antimatter Tech Talk Room, Plymouth 2
9:30-10am: Welcoming Remarks (video)
Speaker: Rebecca Moore, Manager of Earth Engine and Earth Outreach Location: Antimatter Tech Talk Room, Plymouth 2
Opening welcome from Earth Engine's manager
10-11am: Introduction to Earth Engine and Friends (video) Presenter: Dave Thau, Manager of Developer Relations, Earth Engine and Earth Outreach
Location: Antimatter Tech Talk Room, Plymouth 2 An overview of Google Earth Engine, Open Data Kit, Google Maps API, App Engine, and more. 11-11:30pm: Plenary Presentation (video) Presenter: Dr. Chadwick Oliver, Professor, Forestry and Environmental Studies and Director, Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, Yale University Title: Satellite Technologies to Sustain the Earth’s Forest Biodiversity, Carbon, and Communities Break 12-12:30pm: Plenary Presentation: Presenter: Dr. Mikhail Chester, Assistant Professor. Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, Arizona State University Title: Urban Infrastructure Growth and its Unintended Environmental Impacts 12:30-1pm: Plenary Presentation:
Presenter: Dr. Meha Jain, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University Title: A scalable satellite-based crop yield mapper: Integrating satellites and crop models for field-scale estimation 1-2pm: Lunch Location: Plymouth 2
2-3:30pm: Breakout Session 1 (participants choose 1)
Introduction to the Earth Engine API Presenter: Tyler Erickson Description: The Earth Engine API (application programming interface) provides the ability to create your own algorithms to process raster and vector imagery. This session is geared toward people who would like to analyze satellite and vector data. The session will be hands-on, using the Earth Engine Javascript programming environment ("the Playground"). Prerequisites: Familiarity with at least one software language, or at least not be afraid of learning as we go.
Advanced Earth Engine API Presenter: Nick Clinton Description: This session will cover advanced analysis topics such as reducing data, joining datasets, and charting. This session is intended for users with prior experience with Google Earth Engine. Prerequisites: Introduction to Earth Engine or extensive prior experience using the Earth Engine Javascript API
Advanced Earth Engine topics Presenter: Noel Gorelick Description: Earth Engine API experts get to fire questions at Earth Engine's first engineer, Noel Gorelick Prerequisites: Prior experience using the Earth Engine Javascript API.
My First Google Maps API Presenter: Karin Tuxen-Bettman Description: Take "baby steps" into the Google Maps API world. In this session, you'll create a "Hello World" Maps API webpage, and will learn how to do things like change the options (background map type, initial location, etc.), overlay data and KML layers, and start to showcase your first Earth Engine maps. While this is taught for non-programmers by a non-programmer, we will work with snippets of code copied-and-pasted from the developers.google.com website. Prerequisites: Comfort opening an HTML page, but no prior JavaScript coding necessary. 3:30-4pm: Plenary Presentation (video) Presenter: Dr. Hugh Sturrock, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. University of California, San Francisco Title: Automated malaria risk mapping with Google Earth Engine Break
4:30-6pm: Lightning Talks A fusillade of talks from your fellow participants covering the gamut of what's being done and might be done with Earth Engine around the globe. 6-6:30pm: Plenary Presentation (video) Presenter: Dr. Peter Scarth, Senior Research Scientist, University of Queensland, Brisbane Title: Where the Trees go Ping and the Cows go Bong Location: Outside Plymouth 2
8pm: Shuttle back to Wild Palms and Avatar Hotel Day 2: Tuesday, June 307:45am: Shuttle pickup from The Wild Palms 8:00am: Shuttle pickup from and Avatar Hotel 8-9am: Full Breakfast Location: Plymouth 2 9-9:15am: Welcoming Remarks (video)
Speaker: Luc Vincent, Director of Google Geo Imagery
Location: Plymouth 2
9:15-9:35am: Plenary Presentation (video) Speaker: Alan Belward, Lead of the Land Resource Management Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission’s Joint Research Center Title: Mapping Three Decades of Global Surface Water Occurrence Location: Plymouth 2 9:35-9:45am: Plenary Presentation (video) Speaker: Kass Green, Landsat Advisory Group Co-Chair Location: Plymouth 2 10:00-11:15am: Breakout Session 2 (participants choose one)
Advanced Earth Engine API Presenter: Nick Clinton Description: This session will cover advanced analysis topics such as reducing data, joining datasets, and using the array datatype. This session is intended for users with prior experience with Google Earth Engine. Prerequisites: Introduction to Earth Engine or extensive prior experience using the Earth Engine Javascript API
Presenter: Tyler Erickson Description: The Earth Engine API (application programming interface) provides the ability to create your own algorithms to process raster and vector imagery. This session is geared toward people who would like to analyze satellite and vector data. The session will be hands-on, using the Earth Engine Javascript programming environment ("the Playground"). Prerequisites: Familiarity with at least one software language, or at least not be afraid of learning as we go. My First Google Maps API Presenter: Karin Tuxen-Bettman Description: Take "baby steps" into the Google Maps API world. In this session, you'll create a "Hello World" Maps API webpage, and will learn how to do things like change the options (background map type, initial location, etc.), overlay data and KML layers, and start to showcase your first Earth Engine maps. While this is taught for non-programmers by a non-programmer, we will work with snippets of code copied-and-pasted from the developers.google.com website. Prerequisites: Comfort opening an HTML page, but no prior JavaScript coding necessary. Field Mobile Data Collection and Open Data Kit Presenter: Tanya Birch Description: Open Data Kit is a set of tools that allows you to collect field data, such as text, photos/videos, and GPC location from an Android device where there's no internet connection and then publish that data to the web when you're back online. Once you've gathered your field data, we will map and visualize them. We will also be covering some Android and mobile tips and tricks to help you select phones, manage them, and some useful geo apps and general purpose utilities. Prerequisites: None. Break
11:30am-1pm: Breakout Session 3
Integrating Earth Engine with other tools Presenter: Dave Thau Description: Learn how to integrate Earth Engine with Fusion Tables and QGIS Prerequisites: Google Earth Engine 101. Prior experience using the Earth Engine Javascript API is helpful as well. Building an Earth Engine-based web application with Google App Engine Presenter: Max Heinritz Description: All of the websites that call Earth Engine, like Global Forest Watch, the Map of Life, and in fact the Earth Engine Playground, use Google App Engine to host the sites and connect to Earth Engine. Learn how this is done so you can deploy your own Earth Engine enabled site. Prerequisites: Introduction to Google Earth Engine. Prior experience using the Google Maps API is useful as well.
Advanced Earth Engine topics Presenter: Noel Gorelick Description: Earth Engine API experts get to fire questions at Earth Engine's first engineer, Noel Gorelick Prerequisites: Prior experience using the Earth Engine Javascript API. Earth Engine, Python & IPython/Jupyter Notebooks Presenter: Tyler Erickson Description: This session will cover developing algorithms using the Earth Engine Python API and will cover using IPython Notebooks for algorithm development. Prerequisites: Introduction to Google Earth Engine or extensive prior experience using the Earth Engine JavaScript API. 1-2pm: Lunch
Location: Plymouth 2
2-3:15pm: Breakout Session 4 (participants choose one)
Arrays and Matrices in Earth Engine Presenter: Nick Clinton Description: Arrays, matrices, and linear algebra in general are powerful tools in Earth Engine, and a bit tricky to learn. Get a deep dive into advanced applications in Earth Engine using arrays and matrices. Prerequisites: Introduction to Earth Engine API and Advanced Earth Engine API Advanced Earth Engine client-side web development Presenter: Max Heinritz Description: Learn how to build websites with the Earth Engine JavaScript Client Library, the Google Maps API, and the Google Visualization API. Unlike the App Engine approach, client-side web apps require end users to have an Earth Engine account. Prerequisites: Introduction to Google Earth Engine. Prior experience using the Google Maps API is useful as well. Familiarity with JavaScript preferred but not required.
Presenter: Tanya Birch Description: Open Data Kit is a set of tools that allows you to collect field data, such as text, photos/videos, and GPS location from an Android device where there's no internet connection and then publish that data to the web when you're back online Once you've gathered your field data, we will examine 2 online servers for you, ODK Aggregate and formhub. Then you'll learn how to export your data for graphing, mapping, and visualization. Prerequisites: None, though we won't spend much time on actual field data collection, so take the 101 course for that. Timelapse Tours Presenter: Yen-Chia Hsu Description: Timelapse Earth builds on Earth Engine to show three decades of planetary change, both man-made and natural. In this session, you'll see hot spots of Earth change, learn how to embed Timelapse Earth into HTML materials, and also learn how to author guided tours to highlight particular phenomena on the animated planet. Prerequisites: None. Break
3:45-5pm: Breakout Session 5 (participants choose one)
5:00- 5:30 : Geo Permissions and Earth Engine for Educators Speakers: Vanessa Schneider, Geo Media Program Manager, and Dave Thau Location: Plymouth 2 Using our mapping tools on your websites, in print, or in a video? Get a rundown on the permissions and licensing basics for Google Maps and Earth. Want to teach Earth Engine in your classes? Here's how. This will also be an opportunity for you to ask questions. 5:30pm: Google Tour
6:30pm - 8:00pm: Dinner outside Plymouth 2
8pm: Shuttle back to Wild Palms and Avatar Hotel Day 3: Wednesday, July 17:45am: Shuttle pickup from The Wild Palms 8:00am: Shuttle pickup from and Avatar Hotel Location: Plymouth 2
9-9:15am: Unlocking Skybox Data with Earth Engine (video)
Speakers: Niko Milonopoulos, Geo Data Specialist
Location: Plymouth 2 9:15-9:30am: Earth Engine for Work (video) Speakers: Peter Birch, Program Manager Location: Plymouth 2 9:30-11am: Lighting talks from participants
A fusillade of talks from your fellow participants covering the gamut of what's being done and might be done with Earth Engine around the globe.
11-11:30am: Break
11:30-1pm: Unconference
This part of the agenda will be an "unconference." Participants (you!) can suggest a session -- either a round table discussion to discuss a topic, a publication or a white paper; or a hands-on session that you (or someone else) may present. We will gather suggestions for unconference topics on Tuesday.
1-2pm: Lunch & Group Photo
Location: TBD
2-2:30pm: Wrap-up and final resources
Speaker: Dave Thau
Learn about our grants programs (cloud credit and faculty research awards) and additional resources.
2:30-4pm: Googler Office Hours
Googlers who work on Google mapping tools will be available for 1:1 questions and support. Office hours available will likely include the following areas of expertise (below).
Location: various
4pm: End - Shuttle back to Wild Palms and Avatar Hotel ( we will attempt to coordinate group arrangements to airports during the summit)
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