11-18, 09:00–12:00 (Pacific/Auckland), WF603
This workshop will give you hands-on experience using new Google Earth Engine Plugin for QGIS to combine their desktop-based geospatial workflows with cloud-based datasets.
Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based platform that enables working with large-scale earth observation datasets effectively. The new Google Earth Engine Plugin for QGIS brings this power to the desktop and enables QGIS users to combine their geospatial workflows with cloud-based datasets. The workshop will cover the following topics
- Installing and setting up the Google Earth Engine Plugin for QGIS
- Exploring the Google Earth Engine data catalog
- Downloading images from GEE
- Creating a Processing Model to use data from GEE Data Catalog.
Pre-requisites:
- Install the Google Earth Engine Plugin for QGIS: This workshops requires the Google Earth Engine Plugin for QGIS.The plugin can be installed by the Plugin Manager from the official QGIS plugin repository and involves a few extra steps to authenticate with your Google Earth Engine account and set the Google Cloud project. Visit the QGIS Earth Engine Plugin Installation Guide for step-by-step instructions.
Ujaval is the founder of Spatial Thoughts - a learning platform for modern geospatial technologies. Ujaval got his Masters in Geospatial Information Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Google Inc. in California, he moved to India in 2006. He was one of the early employees at Google India and part of the team that launched Google Maps for India. He worked on multiple Geo teams at Google and led the GIS team in India.
After 15 years of corporate experience, he left Google in 2020 to work on his startup - Spatial Thoughts - to create a learning platform to bridge the skill gap in the geospatial industry. His online academy has trained participants from over 100 countries. His learning materials on QGIS, Python, Earth Engine, and GDAL are cited as the top learning resources globally and are used by more than 1 million people every year.
Ujaval is a world-renowned training facilitator and is passionate about advancing the use of open-source technologies in teaching and research. He is an active QGIS community contributor and a QGIS.org certified training provider.