Earth Engine Asset

An asset resource from the Google Earth Engine REST API representing an image, image collection, table, or folder.

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Properties

Name Type Description
type string The type of the asset.
name string The name of the asset in the format projects/*/assets/**.
id string The asset ID.
updateTime string The last time the asset was updated.
startTime string The start time of the data acquisition.
endTime string The end time of the data acquisition.
geometry object The spatial footprint of the asset as a GeoJSON geometry.
sizeBytes string The size of the asset in bytes.
bands array Information about the data bands of an image asset.
properties object Key-value properties associated with the asset.
title string The title of the asset.
description string A description of the asset.
View JSON Schema on GitHub

JSON Schema

earth-engine.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-earth-engine/refs/heads/main/json-schema/earth-engine.json",
  "title": "Earth Engine Asset",
  "description": "An asset resource from the Google Earth Engine REST API representing an image, image collection, table, or folder.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": ["TYPE_UNSPECIFIED", "IMAGE", "IMAGE_COLLECTION", "TABLE", "FOLDER", "CLASSIFIER"],
      "description": "The type of the asset."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The name of the asset in the format projects/*/assets/**."
    },
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The asset ID."
    },
    "updateTime": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The last time the asset was updated."
    },
    "startTime": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The start time of the data acquisition."
    },
    "endTime": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The end time of the data acquisition."
    },
    "geometry": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "The spatial footprint of the asset as a GeoJSON geometry.",
      "properties": {
        "type": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "coordinates": {
          "type": "array"
        }
      }
    },
    "sizeBytes": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The size of the asset in bytes."
    },
    "bands": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Information about the data bands of an image asset.",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The band ID."
          },
          "dataType": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "precision": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": ["PRECISION_UNSPECIFIED", "INT", "FLOAT", "DOUBLE"]
              },
              "range": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "min": { "type": "number" },
                  "max": { "type": "number" }
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "grid": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "dimensions": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "width": { "type": "integer" },
                  "height": { "type": "integer" }
                }
              },
              "crsCode": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "The coordinate reference system code."
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "properties": {
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": true,
      "description": "Key-value properties associated with the asset."
    },
    "title": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The title of the asset."
    },
    "description": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A description of the asset."
    }
  },
  "required": ["type", "name"]
}

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