Introductory course to Google Earth Engine

Download or read book Introductory course to Google Earth Engine written by Franceschini, G., Ali, M. and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAO Pakistan in collaboration with the FAO headquarters Geospatial Unit is inviting to an introductory course on Google Earth Engine with the objective to provide the basic skills to operate the platform, select, pre-process and analyze satellite imagery relevant to agriculture and food security, in particular for the identification of specific crops in the land and more broadly for land cover mapping, by using an automatic classification approach. The Workshop is thought for specialists in the technical Departmental Units of Agriculture and Food Security. It requires an understanding of the main satellite missions and basic concepts of Remote Sensing. Limited knowledge of scripting language (e.g. Python, R) is a plus. It has the structure of a theoretical presentation and hands-on exercises on the Google Earth Engine code editor.