Method: projects.assets.move

  • Moves an Earth Engine asset from a source location to a specified destination.

  • Requires specific IAM permissions for both source (delete) and destination (create) locations.

  • The request body should contain the destination name in the format "projects/*/assets/**".

  • Uses the POST method with the URL https://earthengine.googleapis.com/v1/{sourceName=projects/*/assets/**}:move.

  • Successful responses return an EarthEngineAsset object.

Moves an asset.

HTTP request

POST https://earthengine.googleapis.com/v1/{sourceName=projects/*/assets/**}:move

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
sourceName

string

The name of the asset to move. name is of the format "projects/*/assets/**" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-legacy/assets/users/[USER]/[ASSET]"). All user-owned assets are under the project "earthengine-legacy" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-legacy/assets/users/foo/bar"). All other assets are under the project "earthengine-public" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-public/assets/LANDSAT").

Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource sourceName:

  • earthengine.assets.delete

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "destinationName": string
}
Fields
destinationName

string

The destination name to which to move the asset. name is of the format "projects/*/assets/**" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-legacy/assets/users/[USER]/[ASSET]"). All user-owned assets are under the project "earthengine-legacy" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-legacy/assets/users/foo/bar"). All other assets are under the project "earthengine-public" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-public/assets/LANDSAT").

Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource destinationName:

  • earthengine.assets.create

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of EarthEngineAsset.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/earthengine
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.