Training Materials

Use the links below to navigate quickly to the training materials for your session.

Contents

1 Day 1: Monday, June 29
1. 1.1 Day 2: Tuesday, June 30
2. 1.2 Day 3: Wednesday, July 1

Day 1: Monday, June 29

9-9:30am: Welcome, Overview & Housekeeping

Presenter: Dave Thau, Manager of Developer Relations, Earth Engine and Earth Outreach

Slide deck

9:30-10am: Welcoming Remarks
Speaker: Rebecca Moore, Manager of Earth Engine and Earth Outreach

Slide deck: (75MB PowerPoint)

10-11am: Introduction to Earth Engine and Friends

Presenter: Dave Thau, Manager of Developer Relations, Earth Engine and Earth Outreach

An overview of Google Earth Engine, Open Data Kit, Google Maps API, App Engine, and more.

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11-11:30pm: Plenary Presentation:

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

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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

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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

Slide deck: (80 MB PowerPoint)

2-3:30pm: Breakout Session 1

Introduction to the Earth Engine API

Presenter: Tyler Erickson

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Advanced Earth Engine API

Presenter: Nick Clinton

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Advanced Earth Engine topics

Presenter: Noel Gorelick

My First Google Maps API

Presenter: Karin Tuxen-Bettman

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Text editors:

Notepad++ for PC: download here
Text Wrangler for Mac: download here
(You can also use the text editor (e.g. Notepad or TextMate) that comes with your computer, but these others will offer more options that help with your coding!)

Finished HTML document
Other finished HTML documents: info window, styled map
Where can you learn more?

3:30-4pm: Plenary Presentation:

Presenter: Dr. Hugh Sturrock, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. University of California, San Francisco

Title: Automated malaria risk mapping with Google Earth Engine

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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.

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6-6:30pm: Plenary Presentation:

Presenter: Dr. Peter Scarth, Senior Research Scientist, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Title: Where the Trees go Ping and the Cows go Bong

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Day 2: Tuesday, June 30

9-9:15am: Welcoming Remarks

Speaker: Luc Vincent, Director of Google Geo Imagery

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9:15-9:35am: Plenary Presentation

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

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9:35-9:45am: Plenary Presentation

Speaker: Kass Green, Landsat Advisory Group Co-Chair

Title: Landsat Advisory Group Survey

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

Advanced Earth Engine API

Presenter: Nick Clinton

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Introduction to the Earth Engine API

Presenter: Tyler Erickson

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My First Google Maps API

Presenter: Karin Tuxen-Bettman

Slide deck

Text editors:

Notepad++ for PC: download here
Text Wrangler for Mac: download here
(You can also use the text editor (e.g. Notepad or TextMate) that comes with your computer, but these others will offer more options that help with your coding!)

Finished HTML document
Other finished HTML documents: info window, styled map
Where can you learn more?

Mobile Data Collection I

Presenter: Tanya Birch

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View Landcover Classification form

make a copy of Landcover Classification Sheet - to edit in Google Sheets, or download as .xlsx for MS Excel.
Form to upload to ODK Aggregate as .xml file

Question Types form - to demonstrate some frequently-used schema types for XLSforms
View the data you collected in ODK at odkcloud.appspot.com. You can log in as anonymous.
Sample Fusion Tables dataset for simple landcover classification using field data in Earth Engine
More Resources

Download ODK Collect on the Google Play Store (or at opendatakit.org/downloads)
Android Cheat Sheet. Listing of some useful Geo apps and overall Android utilities to make your life easier
ODK Tutorials. Four tutorials on setting up your own ODK server, building forms, data collection, and analysis from Google Earth Outreach's tutorial page
Estimating Google AppEngine fees for ODK Deployments: Deployment Planning

11:30am-1pm: Breakout Session 3

Integrating Earth Engine with other tools

Presenter: Dave Thau

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Building an Earth Engine-based web application with Google App Engine

Presenter: Max Heinritz

Slide deck: http://bit.ly/ee-gae

Code: EE Demos on GitHub

Advanced Earth Engine topics

Presenter: Noel Gorelick

Earth Engine, Python & IPython/Jupyter Notebooks

Presenter: Tyler Erickson

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2-3:15pm: Breakout Session 4 (participants choose one)

Arrays and Matrices in Earth Engine

Presenter: Nick Clinton

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Earth Engine client-side web development

Presenter: Max Heinritz

Slide deck: http://bit.ly/ee-js-client

Code: EE Demos on Earth Engine

Mobile Data Collection II

Presenter: Tanya Birch

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Building XLSForms. Open in Google Sheets, File > Make a Copy to edit.

Geo Workshops Question Types form (click left to view in Google Sheets, or view in Enketo online webform)
Multiple choice form with optional "Other field": pizza_questionnaire form in Google Sheets or Enketo webform
Cascading selects example XLSform or Enketo webform
Widgets in Forms Enketo webform
Resources

Other XLSforms to explore

MIKE Carcass Report (Doc to use as basis of XLSform)

Repeating question example (Delivery Outcome form)
Cascading selects example XLSform
Media in questions (Birds XLSform, Birds Media.zip) -- plug in your phone via USB and drag media to odk/forms folder
Bearing / Orientation widget XLSform

Bringing field data into EE Playground

Sample Fusion Tables dataset for simple landcover classification using field data in Earth Engine (hands-on from Session 1's demo)

EE Playground: Merging Hand-drawn points with Field Data from Fusion Tables

Step 1: Load a Fusion Table

Load a Fusion Table
// Create a feature collection from a Fusion Table.
// Load the Geo Workshops Classification fusion table. Table must be public.
var fc = ee.FeatureCollection('ft:1qX7hrYM-bcJY7yZ3kqk5M3XDS24lKSUrqswq04bj')
// Display the table on the map
Map.addLayer(fc);
Map.setCenter(-121, 37, 7);
Add hand-drawn points for two classes

Within the configure setting for the geometry:

Import as Feature
Property: change to landcover, specify 1 for asphalt, 2 for grass, 3 for exposed soil

Merge the Fusion Table with the Hand-drawn point dataset (more on classification in the Playground from Nicholas Clinton's tutorial)
Run the final script (KEY)

Resources

ODK Aggregate

Timelapse Tours

Presenter: Yen-Chia Hsu

Slide deck

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