Category: Data

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Web-Enabled Landsat Data (aka WELD) Going Global

July 18, 2014

The Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD) project has released prototype global data sets for climate year 2010. The data sets are available as both monthly and annual 30m products generated from Landsat 5 and 7 data.

Maps for Good: Saving Trees and Saving Lives with Petapixel-Scale Computing

July 2, 2014

Google has leveraged the massive amount of data collected about our planet from space over the last four-plus decades—Landsat being one of the key data sets. In this video, Google Earth Engine founder Rebecca Moore shares how Google Earth began and some of the ways it can be used to make sense of decades and petabytes worth of data.