Time series analysis is one of the most common operations in Remote Sensing. It helps understanding and modeling of seasonal patterns as well as monitoring of land cover changes. Earth Engine is uniquely suited to allow extraction of dense time series over long periods of time.
In this post, I will go through different methods and approaches for time series extraction. While there are plenty of examples available that show how to extract a time series for a single location – there are unique challenges that come up when you need a time series for many locations spanning a large area. I will explain those challenges and present code samples to solve them.
The ultimate goal for this exercise is to extract NDVI time series from Sentinel-2 data over 1 year for 100 farm locations spanning an entire state in India.
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