Nearly every example uses the Earth Engine API so you'll need to import the API,Įe.Initialize() Caution: If you are running Earth Engine Python code in an environment outside ofĬolab, you'll need to ensure that the API is installed and that authentication credentials Pasting code to run in your own environment, you'll need to do a little setup first. The Colab notebooks include everything to get the examples running, but if you are copying and Widgets that allow you to alternate between JavaScript Code Editor code and the equivalent It as a Colab Jupyter notebook or view it on GitHub. On these particular pages, you'll find buttons at the top of the page to run Python code is included for some examples in the Earth Engine Developer Guide (stay tuned for Interactive map handling, while charting can be done withĮarth Engine in Colab setup notebook for using Folium and Matplotlib. Use third party libraries for UI elements in Python. The Earth Engine ui module is only available through the JavaScript API CodeĮditor. Results of expensive, large, or long running computations. In general, the best practice is toĪnd once complete, import them into a new script for further analysis.Ĭaution: Calling getInfo() in your script will block execution.Īdditionally, requests for a lot of data or expensive computations can return an error
Note that getInfo() is a synchronous operation, meaning execution of expressionsįollowing the getInfo() call are blocked until the result is returned to the client.Īdditionally, requests for a lot of data or expensive computations can return an error and/or # Print image object WITH call to getInfo() prints image metadata. # Print image object WITHOUT call to getInfo() prints serialized request instructions. Printing an Earth Engine object in Python prints the serialized request for the object,Ĭall getInfo() on Earth Engine objects to get the desired object from the server
Start an export task: task.start() Check export task status: task.status() Note: Tasks started from the Python API will also appear in the Tasks Region= my_geometry, # an ee.Geometry object. Task = ee.(image= my_image, # an ee.Image object. The following example demonstrates exportingĪn ee.Image object. Query a task's status byĬalling the status() method on it. Started by calling the start() method on a defined task. Pass parameter arguments as you would with the JavaScript API, minding theĭifferences noted in the syntax table above. Module, which provides an interface to theįunctions. Py_date = (ee_date.getInfo()/1000.0) Convert client-side date to ee.Date:Įxporting data with the Python API requires the use of the ee.batch Import datetime Convert ee.Date to client-side date: Y = fun(**) or y = fun(**arg_dict).ĭefine and manipulate client-side date objects with theĭatetime module. I.e., prepend two asterisks to the function input dictionary:
Update the API: pip install earthengine-api -upgrade Package import Once installed, you can import, authenticate and initialize the Earth Engine API as Command prompt: pip install earthengine-api