Google Earth Engine Asset Manager with Addons

Abstract

Google Earth Engine(GEE) is a cloud-based image analysis and geospatial system designed to perform complex functions and includes backend for both storage and compute processes. The benefit of this system is that it is constantly updated with open source datasets that can be hosted on their servers(including but not limited to Landsat and Sentinel Archives, along with other satellite series). The array of possible tools that allows the users to perform a distributed computing request is unique and made available to those wanting to utilize this massive computing resource. There are two ways to communicate with GEE which are JavaScript based interface and a python client based command line and interaction backend. The command line tool is also very useful to perform some additional tasks such as query a user's own asset, delete , create assets, and perform on demand queries like asset size among other things. Though these tools are built with some consistent outputs this package or add-on was developed to enhance these functionalities. The additional tools include functionality for moving and copying assets, cleaning folders, querying tasks apart from uploading and deleting assets from collections. The tool also includes batch upload tools adapted from an earlier work designed to upload assets onto GEE and this tool adds functionally to that along with being a bundle of tools which can be easily used by Earth Engine users with a command line environment. The new release also contains options to change collection properties, query and generate reports of all task running, and to copy collection from one user to another or from one collection to another. It is developed case by case basis to include more features in the future as it becomes available or as need arises.