2020 Geo for Good Summit

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Opening Remarks and Keynote

Rebecca Moore, Hema Budaraju, Nithya Sowrirajan

Hear from Rebecca Moore, Hema Buduraju and Nithya Sowrirajan as they share their thoughts on how mapping technology can power scientists and civil society all over the world to create social and environmental change.

32 Minutes

Rebecca Moore

Director

Google Earth

Hema Budaraju

Director, Product Management

Google

Nithya Sowrirajan

Director

Google

Resources

campaign Monitoring air quality with S5P TROPOMI data

campaign Learn more about Global Fishing Watch

campaign The Global Safety Net: a ‘blueprint’ to save critical ecosystems and stabilize the Earth’s climate

campaign Earth Engine Case Studies

campaign Environmental Insights Explorer

campaign Air quality

campaign Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer (sdg661.app)

campaign COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports

campaign Blog post on My Maps during COVID-19

campaign Blog post on new ways to support Black-owned businesses

campaign Blog post on Celebrating Indigenous Languages in 2020

campaign Plus Codes

campaign Blog post on the Navajo Nation and Plus Codes

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Summit Overview

Raleigh Seamster

Join us to learn what to expect at the Geo for Good Summit and how to make the most out of the event.

3 Minutes

Raleigh Seamster

Senior Program Manager

Google Earth Outreach

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Intro to Mapping for Good at Google

Matt Hancher

An overview of the various geospatial products and tools that Google makes available, and how they are currently being used for social and environmental impact.

17 Minutes

Matt Hancher

Engineering Lead

Google Earth, Earth Engine, Earth Studio, and Environmental Insights

Resources

campaign Google Earth

campaign Google Earth Studio

campaign Google Earth Engine

campaign Google My Maps

campaign Mapping London’s air pollution

campaign Virtual Tour of the Mississippi River in Google Earth

campaign Visualizing the spread of COVID-19 with Google Earth Engine

campaign Global Mangrove Loss Drivers

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Addresses for Everyone

Jacqueline Rajuai

For many of us, it’s easy to take addresses for granted. We order products online, and they show up at our doorstep. In an emergency, we give our address to an ambulance or fire truck, and they quickly get to us. But what happens when you don’t have an address and you need to direct someone to your current location?

There are many places without traditional addressing systems and some areas with no addresses or road names at all. More than 2 billion people on the planet—about 25 percent of us or more—either don’t have an address or have an address that isn’t easy to locate. It is also challenging for businesses such as food delivery or on-demand transportation, that rely on precise locations to deliver services.

Attend this session to learn more about how Plus Codes can help ensure that everyone, everywhere can exist on a digital map, with digital addresses, no matter where they live.

16 Minutes

Jacqueline Rajuai

Program Manager

Plus Codes

Resources

place Plus Codes

place Addressing the Unaddressed

place Rural Utah Project

place Blog post on the Navajo Nation and Plus Codes

place Plus Codes presentation slides

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Environmental Insights Explorer

Marisa Leung

Marisa will introduce you to the Environmental Insights Explorer, a tool to help cities measure, plan, and track ways to reduce the world’s emissions.

18 Minutes

Marisa Leung

Software Engineer

Environmental Insights Explorer

Resources

apartment Environmental Insights Explorer

apartment Testimonies and Highlight

apartment EIE Data Methodology

apartment EIE Case Studies

apartment Environmental Insights Explorer presentation slides

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Break

Tomomi Matsuoka

10 Minutes

Tomomi Matsuoka

Program Manager

Google Earth Outreach

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What's New in Google Earth?

Patrik Blohmé, Jordon Mears

Learn about the latest updates in Google Earth and Google Earth Studio.

9 Minutes

Patrik Blohmé

Product Manager

Google Earth

Jordon Mears

Tech Lead Manager

Google Earth

Resources

public Google Earth

public Launch of creation tools in Google Earth Web

public Free Shipping project in Google Earth

public Geometry of Sustainable Architecture project in Google Earth

public The Human Right to Water

public Tour Builder shut down

public Mapping London’s air pollution

public Google Earth Web on more browsers

public Google Earth Studio

public Google Earth Studio video export pilot

public What’s New in Google Earth? presentation slides

manufacturing Earth Engine Discussion Forum

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Creation Tools & Collaborative Mapping with Google Earth

Brian Ellis, Emily Henderson

With creation tools in Google Earth for the Web, you can draw your own placemarks, lines and shapes, then attach your own custom text, images, and videos to these locations. You can organize your story into a narrative and collaborate with others. And when you've finished your project, you can easily share it with others.

20 Minutes

Brian Ellis

Software Engineer

Google Earth

Emily Henderson

Program Manager

Google Learning and Education

Resources

public Tutorial on creation tools in Google Earth Web

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Spice Up Google Earth Projects Using Custom HTML

Jordon Mears, Josh Williams

Watch and learn how to take advantage of Google Earth Web’s custom html feature option. In this session, viewers will explore how to create a sound map using Google Earth’s custom HTML option. In addition, code snippets will be shared to “spice up” creators Google Earth Projects.

17 Minutes

Jordon Mears

Tech Lead Manager

Google Earth

Josh Williams

Educator

Round Rock ISD

Resources

public Spice up Google Earth Projects with Custom HTML – Session Support Post

public Enhance Google Earth Web HTML Templates – Github Repository

public Explore, Create, Share with Google Earth Creation Tools

public COVID-19 Soundmap

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Google Earth Studio in Ten

Mike Tavendale

In just 10 minutes, we'll give an overview of Google Earth Studio and show how you can create beautiful animations, fast, with Google Earth's 3D and satellite imagery.

11 Minutes

Mike Tavendale

Program Manager

Google Earth Studio

Resources

public Google Earth Studio

public Google Earth Studio Documentation

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Break

Raleigh Seamster

10 Minutes

Raleigh Seamster

Senior Program Manager

Google Earth Outreach

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What's New in Earth Engine?

David Gibson, Joel Conkling, Steven Ramage

A look at year’s worth of developments in Earth Engine: new features and partner accomplishments, and a big focus on making Earth Engine even more scalable for an ever-growing group of users.

18 Minutes

David Gibson

Technical Lead

Google Earth Engine

Joel Conkling

Product Manager

Google Earth Engine

Steven Ramage

Head of External Relations

Group on Earth Observations Secretariat

Resources

manufacturing What's New in Google Earth Engine?

manufacturing Share your analyses using Earth Engine Apps

manufacturing Medium post: An easier way to browse, discover, and use Earth Engine datasets

manufacturing Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

manufacturing Climate Data Initiative Launches with Strong Public and Private Sector Commitments

manufacturing Blog post: Introducing Google Earth Engine

manufacturing Seeing the forest through the cloud

manufacturing Blog post: Introducing Google Earth Outreach

manufacturing GEO and Google Earth Engine announce funding for 32 projects to improve our planet

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Making a Simple Earth Engine App: Cooking Class with Michael & Karin

Michael DeWitt, Karin Tuxen-Bettman

Have you ever wanted to create a shareable app of your Earth Engine project? Join us as we take you on a culinary adventure through code, introduce you to the EE App UI code ingredients, and demonstrate how to bake an EE app for you to share with the world, or just a few friends.

19 Minutes

Michael DeWitt

Senior Software Engineer

Google Earth Engine

Karin Tuxen-Bettman

Senior Program Manager

Google Earth Outreach

Resources

manufacturing Demo "Tasting Menu" app

manufacturing Guide for adding EE Apps to Google Sites pages

manufacturing Documentation for Earth Engine Apps

manufacturing EE App: Green apartheid in my city

manufacturing EE App: Air pollution changes during COVID-19 lockdowns

manufacturing EE App: Intertidal Change Explorer

manufacturing Making a Simple Earth Engine App presentation slides

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Public Data in the Earth Engine Catalog

Simon Ilyushchenko

This session will give a brief overview of the Earth Engine Catalog with a few highlights of recent datasets including GOES geostationary data and Sentinel-2 cloud probability.

11 Minutes

Simon Ilyushchenko

Teledetective

Google Earth Engine

Resources

manufacturing Earth Engine Public Data Catalog

manufacturing Public Data in the Earth Engine Catalog presentation slides

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Mapping Wildfires with Earth Engine

Vanessa Schneider, Ryan Galleher

Overview of the new Google wildfire detection product, powered by Earth Engine.

10 Minutes

Vanessa Schneider

Program Manager

Google Crisis Response

Ryan Galleher

Program Manager

Google Crisis Response

Resources

manufacturing Mapping Wildfires with Earth Engine

manufacturing Generate wildfire boundary maps with the Earth Engine Code Editor

manufacturing Tutorial: How to generate wildfire boundary maps with Earth Engine

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Dynamic World

Tanya Birch, Steven P. Brumby, Ph.D., Christopher F. Brown, Craig Hanson

In a partnership with National Geographic Society, Google and the World Resources Institute, we examine modern methods at applying neural networks to advance global land cover mapping and discuss impacts and uses of 10m timeseries land cover data.

16 Minutes

Tanya Birch

Program Manager

Google Earth Outreach

Steven P. Brumby, Ph.D.

Senior Advisor, National Geographic Society & CEO, Impact Observatory

Christopher F. Brown

Software Engineer

Google Earth Engine

Craig Hanson

Vice President for Food, Forest, Water & The Ocean

World Resources Institute

Resources

manufacturing Dynamic World presentation slides

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Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs & Earth Engine

Sai Cheemalapati, Tyler Erickson

Earth Engine now supports loading Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs directly from Cloud Storage without going through the ingestion process. In this session, we talk about the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF standard, how to make a Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF, and how to load a Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF in Earth Engine.

11 Minutes

Sai Cheemalapati

Senior Software Engineer

Google Earth Engine

Tyler Erickson

Developer Advocate

Google Earth Outreach

Resources

manufacturing Earth Engine Docs - Cloud GeoTiff Backed Earth Engine Assets

manufacturing Earth Engine Docs - Exporting Data

manufacturing Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF

manufacturing Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF Demo

manufacturing Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF & Earth Engine presentation slides

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Earth Engine REST API

Arian Karbasi, Daniel Coelho

We’ve been transitioning from a 10 year old API stack to a new and modern architecture. This will help us better integrate with Google Cloud in the future.

15 Minutes

Arian Karbasi

Tech Lead

Google Earth Engine

Daniel Coelho

Software Engineer

Google Earth Engine

Resources

manufacturing REST API documentation

manufacturing Quickstart

manufacturing Earth Engine REST API presentation slides

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Break

Tomomi Matsuoka

10 Minutes

Tomomi Matsuoka

Program Manager

Google Earth Outreach

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On the Map with Steve DeRoy

Steve DeRoy, Raleigh Seamster

Join us for a conversation with Steve DeRoy, founder of The Firelight Group, about his journey to mapping and what changes when Indigenous communities are empowered to create their own maps.

22 Minutes

Steve DeRoy

Director, The Firelight Group and Founder, Indigenous Mapping Workshop

Raleigh Seamster

Senior Program Manager

Google Earth Outreach

Resources

people The Firelight Group

people Register for the 2020 Indigenous Mapping Workshop

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Lightning Talks Round #1 (WWF, Addressing the Unaddressed, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, NASA SERVIR, Coffee & Computers)

Jacqueline Rajuai, Aurélie Shapiro, Alex Pigot, Yifang Ban, Kel Markert, Andy Jeffrey

Listen to five 5-minute lightning talks from scientists, NGOs & changemakers who are leveraging mapping tools for social and environmental impact.Featured organizations: WWF-Germany, Addressing the Unaddressed, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, NASA SERVIR, Coffee and Computers

31 Minutes

Jacqueline Rajuai

Program Manager

Plus Codes

Aurélie Shapiro

Senior Remote Sensing Specialist

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Alex Pigot

CEO

Addressing the Unaddressed

Yifang Ban

Professor

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Kel Markert

Research Scientist

NASA SERVIR

Andy Jeffrey

Technology Consultant

Coffee & Computers

Resources

bolt EO-AI4Wildfire

bolt EO4Urban

bolt North London COVID-19 Support Services Map

bolt Lightning Talks Round #1 presentation slides

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Lightning Talks Round #2 (Unilever, Smithsonian Institution, Ecam, App Geo, Yale University, Appalachian Voices/ Skytruth)

Tanya Birch, Andrew Wilcox, Grant Connette, Muryel Arantes, Aaron Doucett, Tirthankar Chakraborty (TC), Christian Thomas

Listen to five 5-minute lightning talks from scientists, NGOs & changemakers who are leveraging mapping tools for social and environmental impact.Featured organizations: Unilever, Smithsonian Institution, Ecam - Equipe de Conservação da Amazônia,Applied Geographics, Yale University, Appalachian Voices, Skytruth

37 Minutes

Tanya Birch

Program Manager

Google Earth Outreach

Andrew Wilcox

Sustainable Sourcing Manager

Unilever

Grant Connette

Research Ecologist

Smithsonian Institution

Muryel Arantes

Geographer

Ecam - Equipe de Conservação da Amazônia

Aaron Doucett

Sales Engineer

Applied Geographics, Inc

Tirthankar Chakraborty (TC)

Climate Scientist

Yale School of the Environment

Christian Thomas

Geospatial Engineer

SkyTruth

Resources

bolt Map of vulnerability of traditional communities in the Amazon facing COVID-19 - Indigenous

bolt Map of vulnerability of traditional communities in the Amazon facing COVID-19 - Quilombola

bolt Methodological steps used for Mapping of the Vulnerability of Traditional Communities in the Amazon facing COVID-19

bolt Location maps of some municipalities that received emergency support from Ecam due to the COVID-19 pandemic

bolt Smithsonian's Working Land & Seascapes Initiative

bolt Lightning Talks Round #2 presentation slides

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Lightning Talks Round #3 (University of Minnesota, Rural Utah Project, Cloud to Street, Desert Research Institute, RESTEC)

Yen Ping Teh, Anup Joshi, Drew Cooper, Beth Tellman, Justin Huntington, Toshio Okumura

Listen to five 5-minute lightning talks from scientists, NGOs & changemakers who are leveraging mapping tools for social and environmental impact.Featured organizations: University of Minnesota, RESOLVE, Rural Utah Project, Cloud to Street, Desert Research Institute, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan (RESTEC)

29 Minutes

Yen Ping Teh

Strategic Partner Manager

Google

Anup Joshi

Program Coordinator / Research Associate

University of Minnesota / RESOLVE

Drew Cooper

Deputy Director

Rural Utah Project

Beth Tellman

Chief Science Officer and Co-founder

Cloud to Street

Justin Huntington

Research Professor

Desert Research Institute

Toshio Okumura

Senior Expert, Global Partnership Development Section

Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan (RESTEC)

Resources

bolt Satellite Derived Bathymetry Using Machine Learning and Multi-Temporal Satellite Images

bolt Sen1Floods11: A Georeferenced Dataset to Train and Test Deep Learning Flood Algorithms for Sentinel-1

bolt Flood social vulnerability paper

bolt Lightning Talks Round #3 presentation slides

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Lightning Talks Round #4 (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, World Resources Institute, Thinking Machines Data Science, University of Namibia, Wageningen University, WattTime, India Literacy Project)

Devaja Shah, Abhishek Potnis, Brookie Guzder-Williams, Isabelle Tingzon, Andrei Mirt, Sabina Rosca, Eliakim Hamunyela, Krishna Karra, Pramod Sridharamurthy

Listen to five 5-minute lightning talks from scientists, NGOs & changemakers who are leveraging mapping tools for social and environmental impact.Featured organizations: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, World Resources Institute, Thinking, Machines Data Science, University of Namibia, Wageningen University, WattTime, India Literacy Project

38 Minutes

Devaja Shah

Program Manager

Google Earth Outreach

Abhishek Potnis

Ph.D Candidate

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Brookie Guzder-Williams

Director of Data Science

World Resources Institute

Isabelle Tingzon

Machine Learning Researcher

Thinking Machines Data Science

Andrei Mirt

Ph.D Candidate

Wageningen University

Sabina Rosca

Ph.D Candidate

Wageningen University

Eliakim Hamunyela

Professor

University of Namibia

Krishna Karra

Machine Learning Researcher

WattTime

Pramod Sridharamurthy

India Literacy Project

Resources

bolt Lightning Talks Round #4 presentation slides

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Live Closing Q&A

Rebecca Moore, Hema Budaraju, Nithya Sowrirajan, Matt Hancher

During this session, our keynote and intro talk speakers will be answering your questions live. If you have questions for our leadership team, please add them to the Q&A at any time before or during this session.

32 Minutes

Rebecca Moore

Director

Google Earth

Hema Budaraju

Director, Product Management

Google

Nithya Sowrirajan

Director

Google

Matt Hancher

Engineering Lead

Google Earth, Earth Engine, Earth Studio, and Environmental Insights

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