GeoCARET, a geospatial catchment and reservoir analysis tool.
20 September 2024
Tomasz Janus and Jaise Kuriakose have released a free open-source software, GeoCARET, for delineating and analysing catchments and reservoirs.
GeoCARET is a command line Python tool for delineating and analysing catchments and reservoirs. It relies on Google Earth Engine (GEE) and Google’s cloud-based platform developed for planetary-scale environmental analysis. GeoCARET uses Google Earth Engine as a backend for performing geometry operations and data processing and as a database of global spatial data in the form of GIS layers. GeoCARET performs its computations on global spatial datasets available in GEE and additionally relies on several private assets. These assets are accessible for analysis by uploading them to a dedicated GEE asset folder.