gee_ui_tour - AtmaMani/gee GitHub Wiki

GEE user interface tour

GEE public datasets

• Raster available as datasets https://code.earthengine.google.com/datasets/ • Vector available as GFT - Google Fusion Tables. This is not curated, but a lit can be found here https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/vector_datasets

UX

• Scripts, Docs, Assets

  • Private, shared, example scripts
  • All scripts accessible outside of GEE through GIT with version history
  • Docs contains list of functions, classes and documentation
  • Assets - all raster data you published into your account

• Code editor

  • Import dataset & Import geometry buttons. Run button
  • Get link - publicly available link to a snapshot of the script
  • Save button to save the script

• Inspector, Console, Tasks

  • Inspector - popup / info space for map interaction. Get band values, pixel values
  • Console - results of print(), charts, errors
  • Tasks - long running tasks
    • Created using Export.image(), Export.table(), Export.video()
    • Tasks are async, run in background even if browser is closed

• Map window

  • Interaction, draw PLP
  • Drive map with Map obj, ui.* namespace for customization

• Universal search bar at top