Google Earth Engine access request #395
Description
1. Requester Information:
This should include the name and contact information of the person making the request.
- PI's Full Name: Hongxing Liu
- PI's Affiliated Institute: The University of Alabama
- PI's Affiliated Email Address: hongxing.liu@ua.edu
- Requester's Full Name: Jilin Men
- Requester's Affiliated Email Address: jmen@ua.edu
2. Project Information:
Provide CIROH project name associated with this research work along with
- CIROH Project Number (as per smartsheet): USGS03
- CIROH Project Name: Advancing Water Quality Monitoring and Prediction Capability of USGS NGWOS Program with Satellite and Drone Remote Sensing Technologies
3. Project Description:
Provide a brief description of the project and its goals. This can help the infrastructure team understand the context and purpose of the requested resources. If your project involves developing software or scripts, briefly describe the software you plan to develop.Please highlight how this project will be benefit from and/or provide benefit to other resources on the shared infrastructure.
This project creates a high-tech "digital eye" for the USGS to monitor national water health by combining satellite data (Sentinel, Landsat) with drone imagery and field samples. By developing algorithms that can "see" through land-based distortions like shadows and reflections, the team can accurately track algae, sediment, and organic matter across different river and lake environments. Google Cloud is the engine that makes this possible at scale; specifically, Google Earth Engine provides the petabytes of satellite imagery and the massive computing power needed to run these complex models across the entire U.S. simultaneously, turning a local research effort into a real-time national alert system for issues like Harmful Algal Blooms.
4. Resource Requirements:
Specify the compute, storage, and network resources needed for the project. Be as specific as possible about the number of resources required, and any specific configurations or capabilities needed. This information will help the infrastructure team determine the appropriate resources to allocate.
Google Earth Engine
Google Cloud Storage
5. Working Group
Please select the working group associated with this project:
- Hydrologic Modeling and Prediction Working Group
- Hydroinformatics Working Group
- Community Resources Working Group
- Artificial Intelligence Working Group
- Model & Forecast Evaluation Working Group
6. Timeline
Project start date: 3/1/2026
Project end date: 3/1/2027
7. Security and Compliance Requirements:
If there are any specific security or compliance requirements for the project, please state them clearly below. This will help ensure that the necessary security measures are in place for the project.
8. Cost Estimation:
Include any cost estimates or requirements for the project. This will help the infrastructure team select the most cost-effective solutions for the project.
Only required for AWS and GCP access. Ignore for others.
AWS Cost Calculator: https://calculator.aws/#/
Google Cloud Pricing Calculator: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator
9. Approval:
Requests require management approval, which typically takes 2-3 weeks to process before access is granted.