QGIS
Open SourceVerified
The free, open-source GIS that has become the default spatial platform for water engineers worldwide.
Geospatial & Hydro-GISActiveQGIS HydrologyTerrain Analysis
geemap
ActivePython + Google Earth Engine without the pain — interactive mapping and analysis of petabyte-scale water data.
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- MIT
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Python, Google Earth Engine, Jupyter
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
pip install geemapAbout geemap
geemap, by Qiusheng Wu, wraps the Google Earth Engine Python API in an interactive mapping package built for notebooks: browse and query EE's petabytes of satellite data, run analyses (surface-water dynamics, flood extents, ET, snow cover), and export results — with hundreds of tutorial notebooks that have become the de facto EE curriculum.
For water engineers, it is the lowest-friction path to questions like "how has this reservoir's surface area changed since 1990" using JRC Global Surface Water or Landsat directly, no downloads involved.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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