 Google Earth Engine Portal provides enhanced opportunities for undertaking Earth observation studies. 300 journal papers were published between 2011 and June 2017 that used G in their research, spread across 158 journals. Application areas ranged from forest and vegetation studies to medical fields such as malaria. The usage was dominated by institutions based in developed nations, with study sites mainly in developed countries. This article was authored by Lullet Kumar and Anisamo Mutanga.