geemap
Open Source
Python + Google Earth Engine without the pain — interactive mapping and analysis of petabyte-scale water data.
Google Earth Engine
ActivePlanetary-scale geospatial analysis in the cloud — the data catalogue and compute behind modern water remote sensing.
by Google
- Pricing
- Freemium
- License
- Proprietary (free for noncommercial use)
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- JavaScript, Python
- Platform
- Web
About Google Earth Engine
Earth Engine pairs a multi-petabyte catalogue of satellite and environmental data — Landsat, Sentinel, MODIS, precipitation, terrain, land cover, the JRC Global Surface Water record — with cloud compute that runs your JavaScript or Python analysis next to the data. Water applications lead its success stories: global surface-water change, flood mapping, irrigation monitoring, snow and drought tracking.
It is free for noncommercial and research use, with commercial licensing through Google Cloud. The skill transfers everywhere in modern hydrology; start with the JavaScript Code Editor or geemap in Python.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
Appears in collections
- Satellite Data for Hydrology & Water Engineering
The satellite and reanalysis datasets H&H engineers actually reach for — DEM to GRACE.
Alternatives to Google Earth Engine
Ranked by the topics, categories and workflow stages they share with Google Earth Engine.
JRC Global Surface Water
Gov-Public
Pixel-level surface water history since 1984, built from the entire Landsat archive — where water has been, and when.
Dynamic World
Free
Near-real-time 10m land cover from Google/WRI, updated every Sentinel-2 pass — land cover that keeps up.
Sentinel-2
Free
Free 10-20m multispectral imagery, 5-day revisit — the imagery backbone under WorldCover and Dynamic World.
Microsoft Planetary Computer
Freemium
A STAC API and Jupyter environment over petabytes of satellite data — Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS, ERA5, CHIRPS and more.
NASA Earthdata Search
Gov-Public
The unified search portal across every NASA Earth-observation archive — SRTM, MODIS, SMAP, GPM, GRACE and more.