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

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

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.
Moore on Landsat archive: “It’s a treasure trove.” [timestamp 8:20]

Post Last Updated on July 2, 2014
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