Accelerating Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine

Accelerating Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine 31 March 2026 by Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier, BOKU University, GDE in Earth Engine Álvaro Moreno, University of Valencia, GDE in Earth Engine Eric Smit, BOKU University Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a cloud-based platform that democratizes access to Google's computational capabilities, allowing for planetary-scale geospatial data analysis to address critical societal issues. Unlike other platforms, it is an integrated tool that is not only accessible to remote sensing scientists but also to a broader audience, who may lack the technical expertise to utilize traditional supercomputers or large-scale cloud computing resources. In this session, we will cover the basics of using GEE for Earth observation and data processing. You will learn how to work with GEE's multi-petabyte analysis-ready data catalog and understand the peculiarities and logic of using the platform properly. During the hands-on sessions, you will get practical experience in utilizing GEE's powerful machine-learning capabilities for classification and regression tasks. Additionally, we will show you how to import and export your own data and provide examples of how you can share your results with broader audiences using GEE's shareable user interfaces. Webinar sponsored by IEEE GRSS Earth Science Informatics (ESI) Technical Committee Learn more: https://www.grss-ieee.org/event/accelerating-remote-sensing-with-google-earth-engine/