Detecting deforestation using satellite imagery with Google Earth Engine

This month we'll be learning how to detect deforestation using satellite imagery with Google Earth Engine.

Google Earth Engine is a geospatial platform combining a catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with analysis and visualisation capabilities. It can be used to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface.

In this session we'll be following tutorials that cover how to write code for Earth Engine, some of the fundamentals of how to analyse satellite imagery, and an in-depth look at how to use the tool to look at forest loss and gain worldwide.

All of our events are suitable for beginners, and no programming experience is required. Bring a laptop along as this a practical, hands-on workshop. Please also sign up for Google Earth Engine if you haven't before.

Before the event, check out the shared doc we'll be using, and sign up for a Dropbox account if you don't already have one so you can edit it. Then please add links to the show and tell section! These can be great data stories you've seen, new tools, jobs you’re hiring for, announcements -- anything others might be interested in. We'll check out what everyone has shared at the start of the event.

Schedule
7:00 🚪 Doors open
7:30 🗣 Show and tell
7:40 💻 Tutorial
9:00 🍺 Drinks at the George

If you can't make the main event, you're also welcome to just join us in the pub from 9!

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