Google is at the forefront of sustainability resilience through the development of solutions aimed at addressing various environmental challenges. These solutions are created using Google’s data analysis platform, combining a vast catalog of satellite imagery, geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities and advanced computing capabilities. By leveraging this technology, government agencies can visualize and analyze environmental data with greater accuracy and speed, enabling them to make informed decisions more quickly.

The United States society, economy, and landscapes are facing unprecedented water management threats. Learn how Google Cloud Solutions and Earth Engine have helped agencies to understand flood patterns with erratic fluctuations in flooded areas that cause difficulties in flood monitoring and management. This session provided an overview of Google Earth Engine and how this robust assessment tool is being used to analyze flood risk, change in flood patterns over time, landscape change and managing water availability for irrigation. 

The Google Cloud Platform with Google Earth Engine and Google Maps Platform has changed the way we think about access to data and data processing power. In Google Earth Engine, for example, the tools to manipulate data at a massive scale and perform computational analysis in real time leverage an ever-expanding catalog of high-quality satellite data and your own high-resolution imagery. This webinar explored useful Google Earth Engine integrations with your geospatial applications for change detection, system conditions assessment, risk signal detection, and spatiotemporal modeling. Our goal is to help you expand the horizons of your current workflows, whether you’re focused on high water monitoring, levee or dam failure, severe weather events, land deformations, dredging, flood modeling, coastal management, or risk assessment.

Site assessments and site selection workflows often require 2D maps, imagery, and time-consuming on-site visits to build context and understanding of real-world conditions. Attendees learned how to use Google Maps Platform's newest map, Photorealistic 3D Tiles, with Cesium to create fast custom immersive 3D map experience at scale for rapid remote site assessments on desktop applications to XR headsets. They also learned how to annotate sites or visualize future real-world conditions in AR using little to no-code with Google's new Geospatial Creator.

Researchers are well aware of barriers to collaboration as they work to collaborate on terabytes of information from around the world. Scientists are often asked to spin up research modules in the cloud to create more flexibility and collaboration opportunities for their projects. However, lacking the necessary cloud skills, many projects never get off the ground. Attendees learned how Google Cloud lab provides a secure sandbox environment that reduces training requirements, enhances worldwide collaboration, and provides a pre-established project billing platform.

As Civil Works continues to evolve to meet growing demands, the enterprise is working to digitally transform its applications. Attend this session and learn how Google and NetApp can partner together to: simplify hybrid cloud operations, protect against ransomware threats, and speed workload migration to the cloud. In turn increasing data visibility. This partnership enables applications and data to be managed both on premises and in Google Cloud from a single pane of glass.