Snazzy-EE-TS-GIF

September 8, 2020 ยท View on GitHub

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