A Python package for interactive geospatial analysis and visualization with Google Earth Engine. Geemap is a Python package for geospatial analysis and visualization with Google Earth Engine (GEE), which is a cloud computing platform with a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets. During the past few years, GEE has become very popular in the geospatial community and it has empowered numerous environmental applications at local, regional, and global scales. GEE provides both JavaScript and Python APIs for making computational requests to the Earth Engine servers. Compared with the comprehensive documentation and interactive IDE (i.e., GEE JavaScript Code Editor) of the GEE JavaScript API, the GEE Python API has relatively little documentation and limited functionality for visualizing results interactively. The geemap Python package was created to fill this gap.
Features
- Geemap is intended for students and researchers, who would like to utilize the Python ecosystem of diverse libraries and tools to explore Google Earth Engine
- Convert Earth Engine JavaScripts to Python scripts and Jupyter notebooks
- Display Earth Engine data layers for interactive mapping
- Support Earth Engine JavaScript API-styled functions in Python, such as Map.addLayer(), Map.setCenter(), Map.centerObject(), Map.setOptions()
- Retrieve Earth Engine data interactively using the Inspector Tool
- Use shapefiles with Earth Engine without having to upload data to one's GEE account
- Convert Earth Engine JavaScripts to Python code directly within Jupyter notebook