Ep 12 - Tyler Erickson - Google Earth Engine, Curiosity & Working With and For a Community

Tyler Erickson is a Developer Advocate at Google, more specifically working on Google Earth Engine - a platform providing access to many different Earth Observation datasets merged together - allowing users to focus more time on building their solutions.

About Tyler:

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

Shownotes:

• Range by David Epstein

• American Geophysical Union

• Rebecca Moore

• Google Earth Engine

• NASA Processing Levels

• OpenET

• Book & Media recommendations:

  • Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne

  • bikepacking.com

  • Jupyter Book

  • FastPages

  • The Evolution of Trust by Nicky Case

Time stamps:

• 03:10 - Conversation starts, Tyler introduces himself

• 8:45 - Generalists or Specialists

• 13:30 - Fostering innovations & ideas across fields

• 18:45 - Incentivizing sharing in research

• 21:45 - Reproduce & Replicate

• 30:00 - Tyler’s work: Developer Advocate at Google Earth Engine

• 34:20 - A Short History of Google Earth Engine

• 40:40 - Why did people use it?

• 45:00 - Behind the scenes: Python & JavaScript

• 52:20 - Opinionated Data Processing

• 59:50 - Working with a community

• 1:03:30 - Commercial partnerships

• 1:18:00 - OpenET

• 1:27:10 - Building a solution that solves specific problems

• 1:33:45 -Benefits & Drawbacks of Story Telling

• 1:42:00 - Book & Media Recommendations

Please feel free to reach out!

• My Twitter

• For news about the podcast

• Reach out by email: minds.behind.maps@gmail.com