The Google Earth Engine Digitisation Tool (GEEDiT) and the Margin change Quantification Tool (MaQiT) &ndash; simple tools for the rapid mapping and quantification of changing Earth surface margins

Lea, James M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-551-2018

Articles | Volume 6, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-551-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-551-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 6, issue 3

Research article

|

13 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 13 Jul 2018

The Google Earth Engine Digitisation Tool (GEEDiT) and the Margin change Quantification Tool (MaQiT) – simple tools for the rapid mapping and quantification of changing Earth surface margins

James M. Lea

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-6-551-2018-supplement

Data sets

University of Liverpool Google Earth Engine Tools/MaQiT J. Lea https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1310754

Model code and software

Code J. Lea https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1305012

Short summary

The new, free and easy-to-use tools in this paper (GEEDiT, GEEDiT-Reviewer and MaQiT) allow users to visualise, map and review margins from full satellite records of Landsat 4–8 and Sentinel 1–2 in addition to quantifying these margin changes with unprecedented speed. This allows previously prohibitive volumes of remote-sensing data to be analysed easily, flexibly and rapidly. These tools have potential applications across the geosciences for the exploration and analysis of satellite imagery.