/Snazzy-EE-TS-GIF

Apps for creating Landsat time series animations

Primary LanguageJavaScriptApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

Snazzy-EE-TS-GIF

It's important to demonstrate how Earth is changing.

The app set described here makes the following GIF anywhere on Earth. No coding required, just a browser and some mouse clicks. The goal is to make it easy for anyone to generate and share this kind of animation on social media.

Step 1: Go to EE-TS-GIF app

  1. Draw a rectangle anywhere on Earth
  2. Record app info: start & end years, GIF center lat & lon, and width (km).
  3. Download resulting GIF

Step 2: Go to Snazzy-EE-TS-GIF app

  1. Upload GIF from previous app
  2. Enter info from previous app
  3. Download resulting GIF

Step 3: Get on social media

  1. Upload GIF from previous app
  2. Narrate it with a couple sentences

Big thanks to:

All the developers and scientists who had a hand in the following technologies and libraries (and their dependencies)

  • Landsat (USGS & NASA)
  • Earth Engine (Google)
  • Shinyapps.io (RStudio)
  • R magick
  • R rnaturalearth
  • R shiny
  • R gifski
  • R rgeos
  • R shinycssloaders