Announced at the Google Cloud Sustainability Summit today, the tool is said to provide access to more than 70 petabytes of “analysis-ready geospatial data.” Google Earth Engine is not a new product. In fact, it has been available for more than a decade, but until now access has been restricted to academia and the nonprofit world. Launched in 2010, Earth Engine is one of the world’s largest Earth observation catalogs, combining data from satellite imagery and other sources and continually updating itself to present a clear picture of the world’s surface.
