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Planet GEE Pipeline CLI

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While moving between assets from Planet Inc and Google Earth Engine it was imperative to create a pipeline that allows for easy transitions between the two service end points and this tool is designed to act as a step by step process chain from Planet Assets to batch upload and modification within the Google Earth Engine environment. The ambition is apart from helping user with batch actions on assets along with interacting and extending capabilities of existing GEE CLI. It is developed case by case basis to include more features in the future as it becomes available or as need arises. tab.

CLI

Table of contents

Installation

We assume Earth Engine Python API is installed and EE authorised as desribed here. We also assume Planet Python API is installed you can install by simply running.

pip install planet
Further instructions can be found here

This toolbox also uses some functionality from GDAL For installing GDAL in Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ppa && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gdal-bin
For Windows I found this guide from UCLA

To install Planet-GEE-Pipeline-CLI:

git clone https://github.com/samapriya/Planet-GEE-Pipeline-CLI.git
cd Planet-GEE-Pipeline-CLI && pip install -r requirements.txt

for linux use sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
This release also contains a windows installer which bypasses the need for you to have admin permission, it does however require you to have python in the system path meaning when you open up command prompt you should be able to type python and start it within the command prompt window. Post installation using the installer you can just call ppipe using the command prompt similar to calling python. Give it a go post installation type
ppipe -h
Installation is an optional step; the application can be also run directly by executing ppipe.py script. The advantage of having it installed is being able to execute ppipe as any command line tool. I recommend installation within virtual environment. To install run
python setup.py develop or python setup.py install

In a linux distribution
sudo python setup.py develop or sudo python setup.py install

Getting started

As usual, to print help:

usage: ppipe.py [-h]
                {
                ,planetkey,aoijson,activatepl,space,downloadpl,metadata,ee_user,create,upload,lst,collsize,delete,tasks,taskquery,report,cancel,mover,copy,access,collprop,cleanout}
                ...

Planet Pipeline with Google Earth Engine Batch Addons

positional arguments:
  { ,planetkey,aoijson,activatepl,space,downloadpl,metadata,ee_user,create,upload,lst,collsize,delete,tasks,taskquery,report,cancel,mover,copy,access,collprop,cleanout}
                        ---------------------------------------
                        -----Choose from Planet Tools Below-----
                        ---------------------------------------
    planetkey           Enter your planet API Key
    aoijson             Tool to convert KML, Shapefile,WKT,GeoJSON or Landsat
                        WRS PathRow file to AreaOfInterest.JSON file with
                        structured query for use with Planet API 1.0
    activatepl          Tool to query and/or activate Planet Assets
    space               Tool to query total download size of activated assets
                        & local space left for download
    downloadpl          Tool to download Planet Assets
    metadata            Tool to tabulate and convert all metadata files from
                        Planet or Digital Globe Assets
                        -------------------------------------------
                        ----Choose from Earth Engine Tools Below----
                        -------------------------------------------
    ee_user             Get Earth Engine API Key & Paste it back to Command
                        line/shell to change user
    create              Allows the user to create an asset collection or
                        folder in Google Earth Engine
    upload              Batch Asset Uploader.
    lst                 List assets in a folder/collection or write as text
                        file
    collsize            Collects collection size in Human Readable form &
                        Number of assets
    delete              Deletes collection and all items inside. Supports
                        Unix-like wildcards.
    tasks               Queries currently running, enqued,failed
    taskquery           Queries currently running, enqued,failed ingestions
                        and uploaded assets
    report              Create a report of all tasks and exports to a CSV file
    cancel              Cancel all running tasks
    mover               Moves all assets from one collection to another
    copy                Copies all assets from one collection to another:
                        Including copying from other users if you have read
                        permission to their assets
    access              Sets Permissions for Images, Collection or all assets
                        in EE Folder Example: python ee_permissions.py --mode
                        "folder" --asset "users/john/doe" --user
                        "jimmy@doe.com:R"
    collprop            Sets Overall Properties for Image Collection
    cleanout            Clear folders with datasets from earlier downloaded

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

To obtain help for a specific functionality, simply call it with help switch, e.g.: ppipe upload -h. If you didn't install ppipe, then you can run it just by going to ppipe directory and running python ppipe.py [arguments go here]

Batch uploader

The script creates an Image Collection from GeoTIFFs in your local directory. By default, the collection name is the same as the local directory name; with optional parameter you can provide a different name. Another optional parameter is a path to a CSV file with metadata for images, which is covered in the next section: Parsing metadata.

usage: ppipe.py upload [-h] --source SOURCE --dest DEST [-m METADATA]
                       [-mf MANIFEST] [--large] [--nodata NODATA] [-u USER]
                       [-s SERVICE_ACCOUNT] [-k PRIVATE_KEY] [-b BUCKET]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Required named arguments.:
  --source SOURCE       Path to the directory with images for upload.
  --dest DEST           Destination. Full path for upload to Google Earth
                        Engine, e.g. users/pinkiepie/myponycollection
  -u USER, --user USER  Google account name (gmail address).

Optional named arguments:
  -m METADATA, --metadata METADATA
                        Path to CSV with metadata.
  -mf MANIFEST, --manifest MANIFEST
                        Manifest type to be used,for planetscope use
                        "planetscope"
  --large               (Advanced) Use multipart upload. Might help if upload
                        of large files is failing on some systems. Might cause
                        other issues.
  --nodata NODATA       The value to burn into the raster as NoData (missing
                        data)
  -s SERVICE_ACCOUNT, --service-account SERVICE_ACCOUNT
                        Google Earth Engine service account.
  -k PRIVATE_KEY, --private-key PRIVATE_KEY
                        Google Earth Engine private key file.
  -b BUCKET, --bucket BUCKET
                        Google Cloud Storage bucket name.

Parsing metadata

By metadata we understand here the properties associated with each image. Thanks to these, GEE user can easily filter collection based on specified criteria. The file with metadata should be organised as follows:

filename (without extension) property1 header property2 header
file1 value1 value2
file2 value3 value4

Note that header can contain only letters, digits and underscores.

Example:

id_no class category binomial system:time_start
my_file_1 GASTROPODA EN Aaadonta constricta 1478943081000
my_file_2 GASTROPODA CR Aaadonta irregularis 1478943081000

The corresponding files are my_file_1.tif and my_file_2.tif. With each of the files five properties are associated: id_no, class, category, binomial and system:time_start. The latter is time in Unix epoch format, in milliseconds, as documented in GEE glosary. The program will match the file names from the upload directory with ones provided in the CSV and pass the metadata in JSON format:

{ id_no: my_file_1, class: GASTROPODA, category: EN, binomial: Aaadonta constricta, system:time_start: 1478943081000}

The program will report any illegal fields, it will also complain if not all of the images passed for upload have metadata associated. User can opt to ignore it, in which case some assets will have no properties.

Having metadata helps in organising your asstets, but is not mandatory - you can skip it.

Usage examples

Usage examples have been segmented into two parts focusing on both planet tools as well as earth engine tools, earth engine tools include additional developments in CLI which allows you to recursively interact with their python API

Planet Tools

The Planet Toolsets consists of tools required to access control and download planet labs assets (PlanetScope and RapidEye OrthoTiles) as well as parse metadata in a tabular form which maybe required by other applications.

Planet Key

This tool basically asks you to input your Planet API Key using a password prompt this is then used for all subsequent tools

usage: ppipe.py planetkey [-h]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

If using on a private machine the Key is saved as a csv file for all future runs of the tool.

AOI JSON

The aoijson tab within the toolset allows you to create filters and structure your existing input file to that which can be used with Planet's API. The tool requires inputs with start and end date, along with cloud cover. You can choose from multiple input files types such as KML, Zipped Shapefile, GeoJSON, WKT or even Landsat Tiles based on PathRow numbers. The geo option asks you to select existing files which will be converted into formatted JSON file called aoi.json. If using WRS as an option just type in the 6 digit PathRow combination and it will create a json file for you.

usage: ppipe.py aoijson [-h] [--start START] [--end END] [--cloud CLOUD]
                     [--inputfile INPUTFILE] [--geo GEO] [--loc LOC]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --start START         Start date in YYYY-MM-DD?
  --end END             End date in YYYY-MM-DD?
  --cloud CLOUD         Maximum Cloud Cover(0-1) representing 0-100
  --inputfile INPUTFILE
                        Choose a kml/shapefile/geojson or WKT file for
                        AOI(KML/SHP/GJSON/WKT) or WRS (6 digit RowPath
                        Example: 023042)
  --geo GEO             map.geojson/aoi.kml/aoi.shp/aoi.wkt file
  --loc LOC             Location where aoi.json file is to be stored

Activate or Check Asset

The activatepl tab allows the users to either check or activate planet assets, in this case only PSOrthoTile and REOrthoTile are supported because I was only interested in these two asset types for my work but can be easily extended to other asset types. This tool makes use of an existing json file sturctured for use within Planet API or the aoi.json file created earlier

usage: ppipe.py activatepl [-h] [--aoi AOI] [--action ACTION] [--asst ASST]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --aoi AOI        Choose aoi.json file created earlier
  --action ACTION  choose between check/activate
  --asst ASST      Choose between planet asset types (PSOrthoTile
                   analytic/REOrthoTile analytic/PSOrthoTile
                   analytic_xml/REOrthoTile analytic_xml

Check Total size of assets

It is important to sometimes estimate the overall size of download before you can actually download activated assets. This tool allows you to estimate local storage available at any location and overall size of download in MB or GB. This tool makes use of an existing url get request to look at content size and estimate overall download size of download for the activated assets.

usage: ppipe.py space [-h] [--aoi AOI] [--local LOCAL] [--asset ASSET]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --aoi AOI      Choose aoi.json file created earlier
  --local LOCAL  local path where you are downloading assets
  --asset ASSET  Choose between planet asset types (PSOrthoTile
                 analytic/PSOrthoTile analytic_dn/PSOrthoTile
                 visual/PSScene4Band analytic/PSScene4Band
                 analytic_dn/PSScene3Band analytic/PSScene3Band
                 analytic_dn/PSScene3Band visual/REOrthoTile
                 analytic/REOrthoTile visual

Download Asset

Having metadata helps in organising your asstets, but is not mandatory - you can skip it. The downloadpl tab allows the users to download assets. The platform can download Asset or Asset_XML which is the metadata file to desired folders.One again I was only interested in these two asset types(PSOrthoTile and REOrthoTile) for my work but can be easily extended to other asset types.

usage: ppipe.py downloadpl [-h] [--aoi AOI] [--action ACTION] [--asst ASST]
                           [--pathway PATHWAY]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --aoi AOI          Choose aoi.json file created earlier
  --action ACTION    choose download
  --asst ASST        Choose between planet asset types (PSOrthoTile
                     analytic/REOrthoTile analytic/PSOrthoTile
                     analytic_xml/REOrthoTile analytic_xml
  --pathway PATHWAY  Folder Pathways where PlanetAssets are saved exampled
                     ./PlanetScope ./RapidEye

Metadata Parser

The metadata tab is a more powerful tool and consists of metadata parsing for All PlanetScope and RapiEye Assets along with Digital Globe MultiSpectral and DigitalGlobe PanChromatic datasets. This was developed as a standalone to process xml metadata files from multiple sources and is important step is the user plans to upload these assets to Google Earth Engine.

usage: ppipe.py metadata [-h] [--asset ASSET] [--mf MF] [--mfile MFILE]
                      [--errorlog ERRORLOG]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --asset ASSET        Choose PS OrthoTile(PSO)|PS OrthoTile DN(PSO_DN)|PS
                       OrthoTile Visual(PSO_V)|PS4Band Analytic(PS4B)|PS4Band
                       DN(PS4B_DN)|PS3Band Analytic(PS3B)|PS3Band
                       DN(PS3B_DN)|PS3Band Visual(PS3B_V)|RE OrthoTile
                       (REO)|RE OrthoTile Visual(REO_V)|DigitalGlobe
                       MultiSpectral(DGMS)|DigitalGlobe Panchromatic(DGP)?
  --mf MF              Metadata folder?
  --mfile MFILE        Metadata filename to be exported along with Path.csv
  --errorlog ERRORLOG  Errorlog to be exported along with Path.csv

Earth Engine Tools

The ambition is apart from helping user with batch actions on assets along with interacting and extending capabilities of existing GEE CLI. It is developed case by case basis to include more features in the future as it becomes available or as need arises. This is also a seperate package for earth engine users to use and can be downloaded here

EE User

This tool is designed to allow different users to change earth engine authentication credentials. The tool invokes the authentication call and copies the authentication key verification website to the clipboard which can then be pasted onto a browser and the generated key can be pasted back

Create

This tool allows you to create a collection or folder in your earth engine root directory. The tool uses the system cli to achieve this and this has been included so as to reduce the need to switch between multiple tools and CLI.

usage: ppipe.py create [-h] --typ TYP --path PATH

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  --typ TYP    Specify type: collection or folder
  --path PATH  This is the path for the earth engine asset to be created full
               path is needsed eg: users/johndoe/collection

Upload a directory with images to your myfolder/mycollection and associate properties with each image:

ppipe upload -u johndoe@gmail.com --source path_to_directory_with_tif -m path_to_metadata.csv -mf maifest_type(ex:planetscope) --dest users/johndoe/myfolder/myponycollection
The script will prompt the user for Google account password. The program will also check that all properties in path_to_metadata.csv do not contain any illegal characters for GEE. Don't need metadata? Simply skip this option.You can also skip manifest for RapidEye imagery or any other source that does not require metadata field type handling.

Upload a directory with images with specific NoData value to a selected destination

ppipe upload -u johndoe@gmail.com --source path_to_directory_with_tif --dest users/johndoe/myfolder/myponycollection --nodata 222
In this case we need to supply full path to the destination, which is helpful when we upload to a shared folder. In the provided example we also burn value 222 into all rasters for missing data (NoData).

Asset List

This tool is designed to either print or output asset lists within folders or collections using earthengine ls tool functions.

usage: geeadd.py lst [-h] --location LOCATION --typ TYP [--items ITEMS]
                     [--output OUTPUT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit

Required named arguments.:
  --location LOCATION  This it the location of your folder/collection
  --typ TYP            Whether you want the list to be printed or output as
                       text[print/report]

Optional named arguments:
  --items ITEMS        Number of items to list
  --output OUTPUT      Folder location for report to be exported

Asset Size

This tool allows you to query the size of any Earth Engine asset[Images, Image Collections, Tables and Folders] and prints out the number of assets and total asset size in non-byte encoding meaning KB, MB, GB, TB depending on size.

usage: geeadd assetsize [-h] --asset ASSET

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --asset ASSET  Earth Engine Asset for which to get size properties

Earth Engine Asset Report

This tool recursively goes through all your assets(Includes Images, ImageCollection,Table,) and generates a report containing the following fields [Type,Asset Type, Path,Number of Assets,size(MB),unit,owner,readers,writers].

usage: geeadd.py ee_report [-h] --outfile OUTFILE

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --outfile OUTFILE  This it the location of your report csv file
A simple setup is the following geeadd --outfile "C:\johndoe\report.csv"

Task Query

This script counts all currently running and ready tasks along with failed tasks.

usage: geeadd.py tasks [-h]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

geeadd.py tasks

Task Report

Sometimes it is important to generate a report based on all tasks that is running or has finished. Generated report includes taskId, data time, task status and type

usage: geeadd taskreport [-h] [--r R]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --r R       Folder Path where the reports will be saved

Delete a collection with content:

The delete is recursive, meaning it will delete also all children assets: images, collections and folders. Use with caution!

geeadd delete users/johndoe/test

Console output:

2016-07-17 16:14:09,212 :: oauth2client.client :: INFO :: Attempting refresh to obtain initial access_token
2016-07-17 16:14:09,213 :: oauth2client.client :: INFO :: Refreshing access_token
2016-07-17 16:14:10,842 :: root :: INFO :: Attempting to delete collection test
2016-07-17 16:14:16,898 :: root :: INFO :: Collection users/johndoe/test removed

Delete all directories / collections based on a Unix-like pattern

geeadd delete users/johndoe/*weird[0-9]?name*

Assets Move

This script allows us to recursively move assets from one collection to the other.

usage: geeadd.py mover [-h] [--assetpath ASSETPATH] [--finalpath FINALPATH]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --assetpath ASSETPATH
                        Existing path of assets
  --finalpath FINALPATH
                        New path for assets
geeadd.py mover --assetpath "users/johndoe/myfolder/myponycollection" --destination "users/johndoe/myfolder/myotherponycollection"

Assets Copy

This script allows us to recursively copy assets from one collection to the other. If you have read acess to assets from another user this will also allow you to copy assets from their collections.

usage: geeadd.py copy [-h] [--initial INITIAL] [--final FINAL]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --initial INITIAL  Existing path of assets
  --final FINAL      New path for assets
geeadd.py mover --initial "users/johndoe/myfolder/myponycollection" --final "users/johndoe/myfolder/myotherponycollection"

Assets Access

This tool allows you to set asset acess for either folder , collection or image recursively meaning you can add collection access properties for multiple assets at the same time.

usage: geeadd access [-h] --mode MODE --asset ASSET --user USER

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --mode MODE    This lets you select if you want to change permission or
                 folder/collection/image
  --asset ASSET  This is the path to the earth engine asset whose permission
                 you are changing folder/collection/image
  --user USER    This is the email address to whom you want to give read or
                 write permission Usage: "john@doe.com:R" or "john@doe.com:W"
                 R/W refers to read or write permission
geeadd.py access --mode folder --asset "folder/collection/image" --user "john@doe.com:R"

Set Collection Property

This script is derived from the ee tool to set collection properties and will set overall properties for collection.

usage: geeadd.py collprop [-h] [--coll COLL] [--p P]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  --coll COLL  Path of Image Collection
  --p P        "system:description=Description"/"system:provider_url=url"/"sys
               tem:tags=tags"/"system:title=title

Cancel all tasks

This is a simpler tool, can be called directly from the earthengine cli as well

earthengine cli command
earthengine task cancel all

usage: geeadd.py cancel [-h]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Credits

JetStream A portion of the work is suported by JetStream Grant TG-GEO160014.

Also supported by Planet Labs Ambassador Program

Original upload function adapted from Lukasz's asset manager tool

Changelog

v0.3.0

  • Allows for quiet authentication for use in Google Colab or non interactive environments
  • Improved planet key entry and authentication protocols

v0.2.91

  • Fixed issue with Surface Reflectance metadata and manifest lib
  • Improved ingestion support for (PSScene4Band analytic_Sr)[PS4B_SR]

v0.2.9

  • Fixed issues with generating id list
  • Improved overall security of command calls

v0.2.2

  • Major improvements to ingestion using manifest ingest in Google Earth Engine
  • Contains manifest for all commonly used Planet Data item and asset combinations
  • Added additional tool to Earth Engine Enhancement including quota check before upload to GEE

v0.2.1

  • Fixed initialization loop issue

v0.2.0

  • Metadata parser and Uploader Can now handle PlanetScope 4 Band Surface Reflectance Datasets
  • General Improvements

v0.1.9

  • Changes made to reflect updated GEE Addon tools
  • general improvements

v0.1.8

  • Minor fixes to parser and general improvements
  • Planet Key is now stored in a configuration folder which is safer "C:\users.config\planet"
  • Earth Engine now requires you to assign a field type for metadata meaning an alphanumeric column like satID cannot also have numeric values unless specified explicitly . Manifest option has been added to handle this (just use -mf "planetscope")
  • Added capability to query download size and local disk capacity before downloading planet assets.
  • Added the list function to generate list of collections or folders including reports
  • Added the collection size tool which allows you to estimate total size or quota used from your allocated quota.
  • ogr2ft feature is removed since Earth Engine now allows vector and table uploading.