A ninja Python package behind rgee, rgeeExtra and eemont
A ninja Python package behind rgee, rgeeExtra and eemont.
Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based service for geospatial processing of vector and raster data. The Earth Engine platform has a JavaScript and a Python API with different methods to process geospatial objects. Google Earth Engine also provides a HUGE PETABYTE-SCALE CATALOG of raster and vector data that users can process online (e.g. Landsat Missions Image Collections, Sentinel Missions Image Collections, MODIS Products Image Collections, World Database of Protected Areas, etc.).
There are a lot of fantastic third-party GEE packages and projects around GitHub. However, most of them are coded in JavaScript or in a Python code style that is not straightforward to translate to R, Julia, or other programming languages. The main goal of ee_extra is