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Earth Engine in India
May 2017 - Today
Allie Lieber, Ujaval Gandhi, Devaja Shah
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Agenda
Geo for Good
Why India?
Introduce G4G India
Current projects, plans & feedback
Discussion
1984 - 2016
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Empower everyone with geospatial tools and data to create positive change in the world.
Geo for Good
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Geo for Good
Enable solutions to the world’s most pressing issues
Inspire increased appreciation for the planet among millions of users
Profoundly change human understanding of the planet using our technology
Enable Action
Raise Awareness
Create New Knowledge
Real World Impact
Mission: to empower everyone to create positive change in the world with Geo products and data.
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Geo for Good
earth.google.com/outreach
Climate & Sustainability
People & Culture
Water
Wildlife
Indigenous mapping
Emissions
Fishing
Air Quality
Sunroof
Public Health
Forests
Verticals
Programs
NGOs & Civil Society
Teachers & Educators
Media & Journalists
Scientists
Google�Earth Engine
Google �Earth
Products
Developers
Others
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Why India?
- Recent launch
- Partners
- Scale
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G4G India Summit 2018
80 NGOs + Educators
4 Themes
- Air Quality
- Agriculture
- Conservation
- Education
Goal: Build relationships and capacity in India
What’s next?
Larger, more open summit in 2019
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Earth Engine Roadshow
15+ academic + governmental institutions
- EE 101
- Developed India-focused materials & methodology
- See repository: EE-101-India goo.gl/Qa8pb9
- Import/Export based workflow
- Includes supervised classification
Goal: Build organizational support for Earth Engine
What’s next? Advanced Earth Engine Summit in India
Interested?
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Nature Conservation Foundation of India
Track the changes in forest cover near Bandipur National Park, a tiger reserve in Karnataka, over time.
- Similar large-scale analyses were used to measure the impact of a conservation programme by Namma Sangha, a non-governmental organisation that has been working to halt forest loss by providing cooking gas to villagers that previously harvested fuel-wood from the Bandipur Tiger Reserve.
See the case study .
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Datameet
The Open Water Data App aims to d emocratize the use of precipitation data which was not available publicly in India
https://water-data-web-app.appspot.com/
See the case study .
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Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
ATREE used 30 years of Landsat data to classify Land use and do a time-series analysis of Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve.
The end goal was to provide comprehensive information about KMTR to policy makers so that they can protect tigers and elephants better
See the case study .
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Projects in Progress
Flood Prone Area Analysis, Ganga Monitoring
Tiger Habitat Assessment
Ministry of Water Resources , New Delhi
Wildlife Conservation Society of India , Bangalore
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Next Steps: Scale!
- Online MOOCs with Indian academic institutions
- Thematically and regionally focused training materials
- EE India and Geo for Good Summits proposed in 2019
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Discussion
Institutions?
Researchers?
Courses?
Examples?
Experiences?
Thoughts?
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Thank you!
