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google/earthengine-api

Python and JavaScript bindings for calling the Earth Engine API. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/google/earthengine-api · JavaScript · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

95/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 87
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 7.0
  • age_days: 4152
  • days_rel: 9
  • days_push: 9
  • n_releases_24m: 89

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

3400 stars · 1086 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Official Python and JavaScript client libraries for the Google Earth Engine API, enabling programmatic access to Google's planetary-scale geospatial dataset catalog and computation platform. Users can query, process, and analyze satellite imagery and geospatial data such as computing trends in night-time lights.

Use cases

  • analyze satellite imagery with python
  • compute trends in nighttime lights data
  • process geospatial raster data in the cloud
  • query earth engine image collections
  • run pixel-level computations on planetary datasets
  • export earth engine results for gis workflows

When to choose

  • you need to access or analyze Google Earth Engine's petabyte-scale geospatial catalog
  • you want to run cloud-based raster computations without downloading raw imagery
  • you are building Python or JavaScript workflows around remote sensing data

When to avoid

  • you need offline geospatial processing without an Earth Engine account
  • you only need local GIS operations better served by GDAL or rasterio
  • you require a service Google has not approved your Earth Engine access for

Facets

library · maturity stable

sdk data-science geospatial http-client data-science analytics developer-tools python cross-platform earth-engine satellite-imagery remote-sensing geospatial-analysis google-cloud client-library maps javascript nodejs

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