03 · Environmental covariates with Google Earth Engine

Digital Soil Mapping
Building the covariate stack (terrain, climate, vegetation, parent material) in Google Earth Engine and R.

Duration: 3 h · Level: Intermediate

Open in the SoilFER Lab

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This module will be populated from the SoilFER Capacity Development training material (FAO-SID/SoilFER/Capacity Development). See scripts/import-materials.sh.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module you will be able to:

  • authenticate to Google Earth Engine from R;
  • export terrain, climate and remote-sensing covariates;
  • build and check an aligned covariate stack.
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