Why donate to the Community Catalog¶
The GEE Community Catalog is an Open Source and unfunded project that is developed and maintained by a one person team. You can read me and the work further in the about me section. While I started this as a personal side project in 2020, the realization was always present that this project has far reaching implications and applications in the larger geospatial community. I realized that this project could benefit not just the research community who are often producing valuable research products from their research but users who are interested in a share collection of community sources data sources. Behind the scenes most community catalog requests for adding a dataset to the community catalog is triaged by me, evaluated based on multiple factors such as license, data size and preprocessing complexity before I start the work on getting it ready.
The Insiders program is designed for those who are helping keep open source projects sustainable and support the growth and curation of the catalog. As such this program is for sponsors and data contributors to the project you can sponsor the project by clicking on the sponsor button above ☝ or submit a new dataset or tutorial request. If you fit under any of those categories fill this form to get insiders access. As an Insider, you'll be added to the "catalog-contributors" Google Group, giving you early access to datasets as they are processed, reviewed, and even those not yet released. You'll also receive occasional changelog and update emails, and have the ability to post questions, concerns, and thoughts to the group. And if we meet ask me for stickers to help spread the word 😊.
Over the last 4 years the project backend now includes over 100,000+ lines of code to often preprocess the dataset or make it ingest ready for Google Earth Engine and making it available for the geospatial community of GEE users. Currently the site serves over 500,000 requests from over 160+ countries. This work is built around creating a Community Data Commons and if you can and wish to support and donate to the project which goes towards simple things like cost of hosting, preprocessing feel free to do so using Github Sponsorship Tier setup for this project.
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