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Introduction to the Earth Engine JavaScript API

Welcome to the introductory tutorial for the Google Earth Engine JavaScript API. This tutorial provides examples of how to use Earth Engine to analyze geospatial raster and vector data. By the end of the tutorial, you will have seen most of the basic functionality of the Earth Engine API.

Prerequisites

Register for Earth Engine.
If you are unfamiliar with JavaScript, check out the JavaScript for Earth Engine tutorial before proceeding.
Get familiar with the Earth Engine Code Editor, the IDE for writing Earth Engine JavaScript code in a web browser. Learn more about the Code Editor here.

Once you're familiar with JavaScript and the Code Editor, visit the next page to learn about visualizing images and image bands.