A python package that extends Google Earth Engine

GitHub: https://github.com/davemlz/eemont

Documentation: https://eemont.readthedocs.io/

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/eemont/

Conda-forge: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/eemont

Tutorials: https://github.com/davemlz/eemont/tree/master/docs/tutorials

Paper: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.03168

Overview

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.). The eemont package extends the Google Earth Engine Python API with pre-processing and processing tools for the most used satellite platforms by adding utility methods for different Earth Engine Objects that are friendly with the Python method chaining.

Google Earth Engine Community: Developer Resources

The eemont Python package can be found in the Earth Engine Community: Developer Resources together with other awesome resources such as geemap and rgee.

How does it work?

The eemont python package extends the following Earth Engine classes:

• ee.Feature
• ee.FeatureCollection
• ee.Geometry
• ee.Image
• ee.ImageCollection
• ee.List
• ee.Number

New utility methods and constructors are added to above-mentioned classes in order to create a more fluid code by being friendly with the Python method chaining. These methods are mandatory for some pre-processing and processing tasks (e.g. clouds masking, shadows masking, image scaling, spectral indices computation, etc.), and they are presented as simple functions that give researchers, students and analysts the chance to analyze data with far fewer lines of code.

Look at this simple example where a Sentinel-2 Surface Reflectance Image Collection is pre-processed and processed in just one step:

```python import ee, eemont

ee.Authenticate() ee.Initialize()

point = ee.Geometry.PointFromQuery( 'Cali, Colombia', user_agent = 'eemont-example' ) # Extended constructor

S2 = (ee.ImageCollection('COPERNICUS/S2_SR') .filterBounds(point) .closest('2020-10-15') # Extended (pre-processing) .maskClouds(prob = 70) # Extended (pre-processing) .scaleAndOffset() # Extended (pre-processing) .spectralIndices(['NDVI','NDWI','BAIS2'])) # Extended (processing) ```

And just like that, the collection was pre-processed, processed and ready to be analyzed!

Installation

Install the latest version from PyPI:

pip install eemont

Upgrade eemont by running:

pip install -U eemont

Install the latest version from conda-forge:

conda install -c conda-forge eemont

Install the latest dev version from GitHub by running:

pip install git+https://github.com/davemlz/eemont

Features

Let's see some of the main features of eemont and how simple they are compared to the GEE Python API original methods:

Overloaded Operators

The following operators are overloaded: +, -, *\, /, //, %, **\ , <<, >>, &, |\, <, <=, ==, !=, >, >=, -, ~. (and you can avoid the ee.Image.expression() method!)

Clouds and Shadows Masking

Masking clouds and shadows can be done using eemont with just one method: maskClouds()!

Image Scaling and Offsetting

Scaling and offsetting can also be done using eemont with just one method: scale()!

Complete Preprocessing

The complete preprocessing workflow (Masking clouds and shadows, and image scaling and offsetting) can be done using eemont with just one method: preprocess()!

Spectral Indices

Do you need to compute several spectral indices? Use the spectralIndices() method! The indices are taken from Awesome Spectral Indices.

The list of available indices can be retrieved by running:

python eemont.listIndices()

Information about the indices can also be checked:

python indices = eemont.indices() indices.BAIS2.formula indices.BAIS2.reference

Closest Image to a Specific Date

Struggling to get the closest image to a specific date? Here is the solution: the closest() method!

Time Series By Regions

The JavaScript API has a method for time series extraction (included in the ui.Chart module), but this method is missing in the Python API... so, here it is!

PD: Actually, there are two methods that you can use: getTimeSeriesByRegion() and getTimeSeriesByRegions()!

``` python f1 = ee.Feature(ee.Geometry.Point([3.984770,48.767221]).buffer(50),{'ID':'A'}) f2 = ee.Feature(ee.Geometry.Point([4.101367,48.748076]).buffer(50),{'ID':'B'}) fc = ee.FeatureCollection([f1,f2])

S2 = (ee.ImageCollection('COPERNICUS/S2_SR') .filterBounds(fc) .filterDate('2020-01-01','2021-01-01') .maskClouds() .scaleAndOffset() .spectralIndices(['EVI','NDVI']))

By Region

ts = S2.getTimeSeriesByRegion(reducer = [ee.Reducer.mean(),ee.Reducer.median()], geometry = fc, bands = ['EVI','NDVI'], scale = 10)

By Regions

ts = S2.getTimeSeriesByRegions(reducer = [ee.Reducer.mean(),ee.Reducer.median()], collection = fc, bands = ['EVI','NDVI'], scale = 10) ```

Constructors by Queries

Don't you have the coordinates of a place? You can construct them by using queries!

``` python usr = 'my-eemont-query-example'

seattlebbox = ee.Geometry.BBoxFromQuery('Seattle',useragent = usr) calicoords = ee.Feature.PointFromQuery('Cali, Colombia',useragent = usr) amazonasriver = ee.FeatureCollection.MultiPointFromQuery('Río Amazonas',useragent = usr) ```

JavaScript Modules

This is perhaps the most important feature in eeExtra! What if you could use a JavaScript module (originally just useful for the Code Editor) in python or R? Well, wait no more for it!

License

The project is licensed under the MIT license.

How to cite

Do you like using eemont and think it is useful? Share the love by citing it!:

Montero, D., (2021). eemont: A Python package that extends Google Earth Engine. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(62), 3168, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03168

If required, here is the BibTex!:

@article{Montero2021, doi = {10.21105/joss.03168}, url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03168}, year = {2021}, publisher = {The Open Journal}, volume = {6}, number = {62}, pages = {3168}, author = {David Montero}, title = {eemont: A Python package that extends Google Earth Engine}, journal = {Journal of Open Source Software} }

Artists

• David Montero Loaiza: Lead Developer of eemont and eeExtra.
• César Aybar: Lead Developer of rgee and eeExtra.
• Aaron Zuspan: Plus Codes Constructors and Methods, Panchromatic Sharpening and Histogram Matching Developer.

Credits

Special thanks to Justin Braaten for featuring eemont in tutorials and the GEE Community: Developer Resources Page, to César Aybar for the formidable help with Awesome Spectral Indices and to the JOSS Review Team (Katy Barnhart, Jayaram Hariharan, Qiusheng Wu and Patrick Gray) for the comments, suggestions and contributions!