Agenda


Presentations videos are available on YouTube!

Day 1: Monday, June 29

7:45am: Shuttle pickup from The Wild Palms 
8:00am: Shuttle pickup from and Avatar Hotel 

8-9am: Registration & Breakfast
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: 
PresenterDr. 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
PresenterDr. Meha Jain, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University
TitleA 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)
 Antimatter  Units of Measure Zero  Dilation of Time
 Introduction to the Earth Engine API  Advanced Earth Engine API  Advanced Earth Engine topics  My First Google Maps API

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)
PresenterDr. 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
TitleWhere the Trees go Ping and the Cows go Bong

6:30-8pm: Earth Engine Summit Reception
Location: Outside Plymouth 2

8pm: Shuttle back to Wild Palms and Avatar Hotel


Day 2: Tuesday, June 30

7:45am: 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

9:45am: Housekeeping

10:00-11:15am: Breakout Session 2 (participants choose one) 

Antimatter Two Thirds Cylinder  Bohr Model  Units of Measure
 Advanced Earth Engine API  Introduction to the Earth Engine API My First Google Maps API  Field Mobile Data Collection and Open Data Kit

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


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.



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

 Antimatter Bohr model  Units of Measure  Oxford Franciscan School
Python and iPython  Building an Earth Engine-based web application with Google App Engine Advanced Earth Engine Topics Integrating Earth Engine with other tools

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) 

 Antimatter  Bohr Model  Units of Measure  Oxford Franciscan School
Arrays and Matrices in Earth Engine Advanced Earth Engine client-side web development Field Mobile Data Collection and Open Data Kit (Part 2)  Timelapse tours

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.


Field Mobile Data Collection and Open Data Kit Part 2

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) 

 Antimatter  Bohr Model  Units of Measure  Oxford Franciscan School
 Forest and conservation mini-summit  Drought and water mini-summit Air quality and urban mini-summit  Disaster and disease-risk mini-summit

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 1

7:45am: Shuttle pickup from The Wild Palms 
8:00am: Shuttle pickup from and Avatar Hotel 

8-9am: Breakfast
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). 
  • Google Earth Engine
  • Web App Development
  • Mobile Data Collection
  • Education and Grants
  • Geo Permissions
  • Timelapse
Location: various

4pm: End - 
Shuttle back to Wild Palms and Avatar Hotel ( we will attempt to coordinate group arrangements to airports during the summit)

Lightning Talks: Monday and Wednesday