ee.data.startProcessing

Create processing task that exports or pre-renders an image.

Return value is null if a callback is specified.

Returns an object with fields:

  - taskId: Submitted task ID (without hyphens).

  - name: Full operation name in the format projects/X/operations/Y

  - started: will be 'OK'

  - note: may have value 'ALREADY_EXISTS' if an identical task with the same unsubmitted ID already exists.

Usage	Returns
ee.data.startProcessing(taskId, params, callback)	ProcessingResponse

Argument	Type	Details
taskId	String	Unsubmitted ID for the task (obtained from newTaskId). Used to identify duplicated tasks; may be null. The server will create and return a submitted ID.
params	Object	The object that describes the processing task; only fields that are common for all processing types are documented here. type (string) Either 'EXPORT_IMAGE', 'EXPORT_FEATURES', 'EXPORT_VIDEO' or 'EXPORT_TILES'. json (string) JSON description of the image.
callback	Function, optional	An optional callback. If not supplied, the call is made synchronously.