This repository is a Google AppEngine application that uses Google Earth Engine to dynamically map surface suspended solid concentration within water bodies in the Mekong Basin using Landsat satellite data. The live application can be found at mekong-ssc.appspot.com
If you use the code from this repository or use any data from the application, please consider citing the following research article: Markert, K.N., Schmidt, C.M., Griffin, R.E., Flores, A.I., Poortinga, A., Saah, D.S., Muench, R.E., Clinton, N.E., Chishtie, F., Kityuttachai, K., Someth, P., Anderson, E.R., Aekakkararungroj, A., and Ganz, D.J. (2018), Historical and Operational Monitoring of Suspended Sediment in the Lower Mekong Basin using Landsat and Google Earth Engine Cloud Computing. Remote Sens., 10(6), 909, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10060909
To set up your own instance of the application, you will need the Google Cloud SDK installed and a cloud project created. Once your project is setup, you will need to create a service account and get that service account whitelisted by the Earth Engine team.
After you have your project setup on Google Cloud, you will interface with your project using the Google Cloud SDK command line interface. To start, you will configure your gcloud environment with your username and login:
$ gcloud config set account <YOUR_ACCOUNT>
$ gcloud auth
After you successfully login, you will need to set the project in the gcloud configuration:
$ gcloud config set project <YOUR_PROJECTID>
Now we are ready to pull the GitHub repository and make minor changes to the code for your specific project:
$ git clone https://github.com/kmarkert/mekong-ssc-gae.git
$ cd mekong-ssc-gae
Specifically, you will need to change lines 5 and 11 in config.py for your specific service account and credentials.
Last step is to deploy your application to the cloud:
$ gcloud app deploy
The Google Cloud SDK will walk you through some configuration for the application and then your application is live! You can check your application at http://<YOUR_PROJECTID>.appspot.com
If you have any ideas, just open an issue and let me know what you think.
If you'd like to contribute, please fork the repository and make changes as you'd like. Pull requests are welcome!