# google/earthengine-api

Python and JavaScript bindings for calling the Earth Engine API.

Repository: https://github.com/google/earthengine-api
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/earthengine-api
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-24T21:58:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4152, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 9, "gap_med": 7.0, "n_releases_24m": 89}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3400, forks 1086 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:02.736966+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: sdk, data-science, geospatial, http-client
- domain: data-science, analytics, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: earth-engine, satellite-imagery, remote-sensing, geospatial-analysis, google-cloud, client-library, maps, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- google/earthengine-api (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:02.736966+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:38:42.448010+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/google/earthengine-api (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:02.736966+00:00, sha b9f97d52c620)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.