Steve Greenberg
Steve is passionate about using machine learning and remote sensing technology to tackle the climate and sustainability crises. He leads the Developer Relations team for Google Earth Engine. Earth Engine is a geospatial analysis platform advancing planetary sustainability and resilience to climate change. His team helps remote sensing professionals, data scientists and machine learning engineers analyze petabytes of satellite imagery to understand and protect the earth. Earth Engine is provided free-of-charge for noncommercial and research purposes.
From 2016 through 2021, Steve led Developer Relations for BigQuery, Vertex AI and other Machine Learning and Data Analytics products in Google Cloud Platform, where he focused on improving the experience for users of scikit-learn, XGBoost and TensorFlow.
Steve also co-leads Google's largest grassroots sustainability group - organizing Googlers to incubate new climate initiatives. Three of the climate areas he's worked on - wind energy prediction, real-time precipitation modeling and sustainable building design - have graduated into full-time projects at Google. Prior to joining Google in 2016, Steve led engineering at a Seattle startup helping governments be more accountable to their citizens with public data. Before 2012, Steve was a Program Manager working on various data efforts in Microsoft's Office team.
Sessions
This tutorial is an introduction to cloud-based geospatial analysis with Earth Engine and the geemap Python package. We will cover the basics of Earth Engine data types and how to visualize, analyze, and export Earth Engine data in a Jupyter environment using geemap. We will also demonstrate how to develop and deploy interactive Earth Engine web apps. Throughout the session, practical examples and hands-on exercises will be provided to enhance learning. The attendees should have a basic understanding of Python and Jupyter Notebooks. Familiarity with Earth science and geospatial datasets is not required, but will be useful.
Google Earth Engine is a cloud-computing platform with a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets. Built upon the Earth Engine Python API and open-source mapping libraries, geemap enables Earth Engine users to interactively manipulate, analyze, and visualize geospatial big data in a Jupyter environment. This presentation introduces Earth Engine and highlights the key features of geemap for interactive mapping and geospatial analysis with Earth Engine. Attendees can utilize geemap to create satellite timelapse animations for any location on Earth within 60 seconds. Additional resources will be provided to the attendees to learn more about geemap.