CR-202Intermediate4 weeks5–6 hours per week
Google Earth Engine for Climate Analysis
Write Earth Engine scripts that track vegetation, water and land change over 20+ years.
For: GIS users ready to work with decades of satellite data in the cloud.
You will be able to
- Filter, mask and composite image collections
- Build NDVI and surface-water time series
- Run supervised land-cover classification at scale
- Export results to QGIS, charts and web apps
- Format
- Coding labs (JavaScript Code Editor and Python API), weekly code review
- Tools
- Google Earth Engine · JavaScript · Python (geemap) · Landsat, Sentinel, MODIS
Curriculum
Week 1
Earth Engine basics: collections, filters, reducers
Week 2
Cloud-free composites and long NDVI time series
Week 3
Surface water, snow and glacier change
Week 4
Classification at scale and sharing results as an app
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to know JavaScript?
Basic programming helps. We teach the Earth Engine patterns you need step by step, in both the JavaScript Code Editor and Python.
Is Google Earth Engine free?
It is free for research, education and non-profit use; commercial use needs a paid plan.