Samapriya Roy, Erin Dawn Trochim and Valerie Pasquarella The GEE community catalog made its debut on May 8, 2020, with a commitment to accessibility and collaboration. Our earlier posts (Community Catalog and Community Datasets & Data Commons) provide more information about the motivations behind the project. This round-up aims to…

Samapriya Roy, Valerie Pasquarella and Erin Dawn Trochim About two years ago a simple movement toward data commons and the need for accessibility to publishing open datasets was born over a data request. The idea was a simple one, what if Google Earth Engine users, community actors, researchers, and domain…

Building footprints are probably one of the most visible modifications of the natural landscape. Building types vary, but the built class and the overall patterns of how these spaces evolve are tied to human action, growth, and decay. Mapping human settlements are not new and everything from Night Lights to…

Imagine some of the harshest operational conditions in the world, with swings in temperature and pressure. A world that is profound and yet vastly less explored than most missions undertaken by humanity. and yet something we rely on every single day. With the need for more ocean data and continuous…

Measuring near-real-time data over open oceans over the last couple of decades has been mostly challenging. Over 80% of our oceans are unexplored and as the impetus to expand and understand these cyclically connected systems grow, getting to data is going to be critical. …

Communities are what communities build together. Over a year or so ago, I floated the idea of a Google Earth Engine Makerspace at Geo for Good 2020, this was also around the time when I was exploring the idea of community data commons and created the awesome-gee-community datasets catalog. You…

As part of the many announcements that came out of the Geo for Good 2021 virtual conference was the announcement from Google that Google Earth Engine apps are getting an upgrade from being experimental. They are here to stay and they will allow some really great features to support scaling…

Telling a story or even writing code comes in steps and strides. On GitHub, users can think of this as commit logs and histories. GitHub also transforms your commit history into a contribution calendar map for a quick sneak peek at when you contribute code. While this transforms your commit…

Over the period of decades the emphasis towards studying global coastal reefs and the need to constantly monitor them has accelerated. With an understanding that such insights might be valuable given the dynamic nature of such systems. …