It’s Time to Apply for the 2017 Google Earth Engine User Summit

By Dave Thau, Manager of Developer Relations, Google Earth Engine

If you’re interested in a deep dive into Google Earth Engine and other Google tools for planetary-scale geospatial processing, our annual Earth Engine User Summit is the place for you. Applications are due March 21st.

Greece’s Gulf of Elefsina imaged by Sentinel-2A earlier this year (Copernicus 2017)

The Earth Engine User Summit is a three-day hands-on technical workshop for scientists, students, and developers interested in using Google Earth Engine for planetary-scale cloud-based geospatial analysis (along with other Google tools). It’s a great place to hobnob with Earth Engine aficionados as well. This year’s summit will be held June 12–14, 2017 at the Google campus in Mountain View, California.

A cloud-free view of our Mountain View headquarters captured by Sentinel-2A on March 1 (Copernicus 2017)

Earth Engine combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with a simple, yet powerful API backed by Google’s cloud, which scientists and researchers use to detect, measure, and predict changes to the Earth’s surface.

Last year’s summit included twenty-five hands-on workshops — covering a wide range of topics and Earth Engine experience levels, from image classifiers and classifications, time series analysis, building custom web applications, all the way to arrays, matrices, and linear algebra in Earth Engine — five plenary speakers and eighteen lightning talks spanning topics like drought monitoring, agriculture, forest and biodiversity conservation, time series analysis, and flood risk mapping. This year there will be more!

To learn more, visit our Earth Engine User Summit 2017 site. Applications are due March 21st.

Hope to see you there!