Title
A Google Earth Engine-enabled software for efficiently generating high-quality user-ready Landsat mosaic images.
Abstract
Preparing experiment-ready images is a labor-intensive but necessary process for almost all remote sensing related studies. This short communication introduces a software to efficiently acquire large-scale high-quality and cloud-free Landsat images to support subsequent analysis and applications. The software fully leverages Google Earth Engine's processing of huge amount of remote sensing images, and the visualization on the availability and accessibility of Landsat images provided by heatmaps at both regional and global scales. The cloud percentage property and quality bands of Landsat surface reflectance products are used for masking clouds, cloud shadows, snow/ice, and low-quality pixels in this study. The software can be applied to effectively choose study areas and prepare data in different fields, such as hydrology, ecology, and human activities. This functioning open-source software can be accessible via GitHub webpages in both JavaScript and Python formats.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.11.004
Environmental Modelling & Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
Google Earth Engine,Landsat,Image accessibility,Cloud-free,Experiment-ready images
Web page,Visualization,Computer science,Software,Pixel,Reflectivity,Database,Python (programming language),Management science,JavaScript,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
112
1364-8152
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huan Li19714.75
Wei Wan267.58
Fang Yu37616.84
Siyu Zhu44211.41
xi chen534.34
Baojian Liu615.10
Yang Hong701.35