Academic Track

Ujaval Gandhi ujaval@google.com

Earth Engine India Advanced Summit 2019

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A brief history of Earth Engine

Deriving Information from Earth Observation Data

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Source: NASA

Operating NASA Science Missions

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European Earth Observation Programme

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Earth Observation Data Archives

6 Million Landsat images (1972-2018)

2+ Petabytes stored on tapes at USGS

Google Mission Statement

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"To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

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“Often it turns out to be more efficient to move the questions than to move the data.”

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-Jim Gray (1944-2007)

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Colocate

Big Data

Algorithms

Massive Computation

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Customized for geospatial data.

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Expose with APIs for application development.

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How do we achieve this vision?

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Before Earth Engine

earthengine.google.com/timelapse

1984 - 2016

Forest Loss in Assam

Urban Growth in Hyderabad

2000 - 2016

Shrinking of Bellandur Lake

1984 - 2016

Construction of Tehri Dam

1991 - 2010

What problem are we trying to solve

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• The flood of Earth imagery can be overwhelming, and it is only getting more challenging to manage.
• The existing industry hasn’t completely adapted cloud processing making Earth observation largely inaccessible
• Researchers have a difficult time bringing the best science out of the lab and into the hands of decision-makers

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We want to help unlock the knowledge from the world’s Earth observation data

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Our India journey so far

Earth Engine in India

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• Google Earth Outreach empowers non-profits, educators, scientists and academics to use Google’s mapping platforms for good.

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• We officially launched our program in India in 2018, following the launch of our Earth-suite tools (Earth, Earth Engine, Earth Studio) in India in 2017.

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Earth Engine Roadshow

Earth Engine Hands-on Trainings

Trained 500+ students in 11 academic institutions pan-India on Google Earth Engine by visiting them in roadshow-style.

Conducted Hands-on Workshops at IIRS, FSI, World Bank, CES and IISc for students and faculty members and trained over 600 academicians in Earth Engine.

Google Earth Engine India Challenge

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Grand Prize Winner

Ankur Shringi, a PhD scholar from Indian Institute of Science,

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Runner up Prize Winners

Shanmathi Barathidhasan, Anna University,

Soumya Kanta Das, Central University of Jharkhand

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Consolation Prize Winners

Kirthiga SM, a PhD scholar at IIT Madras

Shobitha Shetty, a Masters student at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing

Amogh Gupta, an Undergrad student at SSN College of Engineering

Rajat Shinde, a PhD scholar at IIT Bombay

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Training Partnership with Government

Building a community

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Earth Engine users in India created an India-specific forum and a monthly Community Webinar for Earth Engine aimed to inspire, inform and engage users trying to get started with EE.

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Meet the team

Googlers

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Allison Lieber (Allie)

Devaja Shah

Sai Cheemalapati

Chris Brown

Praveen Vatsa

Speakers

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David Saah

University of San Francisco

Pradeep Koulgi

Raj Bhagat

WRI India

Ankur Shringi

IISc

Neeti

TERI SAS

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P D Sreekanth

ICAR- NAARM

Taichi Furuhashi

Kyoto University

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M D Madhusudan

NCF

Craig Dsouza

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Day Overview

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What will you build with Earth Engine?