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

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  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$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"]
}