Google Earth Engine To Provide Climate Change Data 107
Meshach tips news that Google has unveiled Google Earth Engine, "a new technology platform that puts an unprecedented amount of satellite imagery and data — current and historical — online for the first time. It enables global-scale monitoring and measurement of changes in the earth’s environment." They're also "donating 10 million CPU-hours a year over the next two years on the Google Earth Engine platform, to strengthen the capacity of developing world nations to track the state of their forests, in preparation for REDD. For the least developed nations, Google Earth Engine will provide critical access to terabytes of data, a growing set of analytical tools and our high-performance processing capabilities."
Re:Raw data, or "adjusted"? (Score:4, Informative)
No one works with raw data, because there is often so much noise in data that it is impossible to compare it to anything else.
Incorrect - and there's no reason the data provided can't be raw data either.
In the sense of climate data, we wouldn't throw out 1 value because it seemed "Off" -
when you WORK with the raw data, like making a report, THATS when you filter out the noise and outlying results.
But to say that you don't work with the raw data is just silly. The filtering is the work!