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Lab 1a - Intro To Remote Sensing and EE

This lab introduces students to remote sensing and electrical engineering concepts through Google Earth Engine. The goals are to understand the difference between radiance and reflectance units, load Landsat 8 imagery in the appropriate units, make true and false color composites, and identify land cover types based on spectral characteristics. Students will search for and load Landsat 8 imagery over San Francisco before filtering and visualizing the collection.

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Lab 1a - Intro To Remote Sensing and EE

This lab introduces students to remote sensing and electrical engineering concepts through Google Earth Engine. The goals are to understand the difference between radiance and reflectance units, load Landsat 8 imagery in the appropriate units, make true and false color composites, and identify land cover types based on spectral characteristics. Students will search for and load Landsat 8 imagery over San Francisco before filtering and visualizing the collection.

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Lab 1: Intro to Remote Sensing and EE

Purpose: The purpose of this lab is to enable you to search, find and visualize remotely sensed
imagery in Google Earth Engine. At completion, you should be able to understand the
difference between radiance and reflectance, load imagery with the units of interest (radiance or
reflectance, for example), make true color and false color composites and identify land cover
types based on spectral characteristics.

Prerequisites: If you are new to JavaScript or programming, go through this guide. Review the
Earth Engine Code Editor doc and the Get Started guide.

1. Searching (and finding) Landsat imagery


Landsat is a NASA program that has launched a sequence of Earth observation satellites,
named Landsat 1, 2,... etc. Note that the Landsat program has resulted in the longest
continuous observation of the Earth's surface. In this exercise, you will load a Landsat scene
over your area of interest, inspect the units and make a plot of radiance. Specifically, use
imagery from the Landsat 8, the most recent of the sequence of Landsat satellites. To inspect a
Landsat 8 image (also called a scene) in your region of interest (ROI), define your ROI as a
point, filter the image collection to get a scene with few clouds, display some information about
the image in the console.

a. Search for 'San Francisco' in the playground search bar and click the result to pan and
zoom the map to San Francisco.
b. Use the geometry tools to make a point in San Francisco (Exit the drawing tool when
you're finished). Name the resultant import 'point' by clicking on the import name
('geometry' by default).
c. Search for 'landsat 8 raw' and import the 'USGS Landsat 8 Collection 1 Tier 1 Raw
Scenes' ImageCollection. Name the import 'landsat'.
d. Filter the ImageCollection by date and location, sort by a metadata property called
'CLOUD_COVER' and get the first image out of this sorted collection:

// Note that we need to cast the result of first() to Image.


var image = ee.Image(landsat

// Filter to get only images in the specified range.


.filterDate('2014-01-01', '2014-12-31')

// Filter to get only images at the location of the point.


.filterBounds(point)

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