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Manifests in Earth Engine

Once you have a manifest, you can now build a custom ingestor that will allow you push datasets based assets and your metadata. This can be achieved by changing the primary Path and point it to the gs:// image and add the metadata values.

{
    "id": "",
    "bands": [{
        "id": "b1"
    }, {
        "id": "b2"
    }, {
        "id": "b3"
    }, {
        "id": "b4"
    }],
    "missingData": {
        "value": "0"
    },
    "properties": {
        "system:time_start": "",
        "product_type": "",
        "orbit": "",
        "provider": "",
        "instrument": "",
        "satellite_id": "",
        "number_of_bands": "",
        "epsg_code": "",
        "resampling_kernel": "",
        "number_of_rows": "",
        "number_of_columns": "",
        "gsd": "",
        "cloud_cover": "",
        "incidence_angle": "",
        "sun_azimuth": "",
        "sun_elevation": "",
        "azimuth_angle": "",
        "spacecraft_angle": "",
        "radiometric_scale_factor": "",
        "reflectance_coefficient_b1": "",
        "reflectance_coefficient_b2": "",
        "reflectance_coefficient_b3": "",
        "reflectance_coefficient_b4": ""
    },
    "tilesets": [{
        "sources": [{
            "primaryPath": ""
        }]
    }]
}

Once you modify this to include the metadata and image path, and write this to a JSON file you can simply use the earthengine upload_manifest tool to upload the image.

earthengine upload_manifest "full path to your manifest json file"

A universal ingestor would allow us to - use these manifests as plug and play to ingest imagery along with metadata. - This will also allow users to modify manifests to create metadata for images that have already been ingested.