Method: projects.map.export

Initiates a batch process that computes a tiled map and writes the result to Google Cloud Storage.

HTTP request

POST https://earthengine.googleapis.com/v1beta/{project=projects/*}/map:export

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
project

string

The project id or project number of the Google Cloud Platform project that should be treated as the service consumer for this request. Format is projects/{project-id}.

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

  • earthengine.exports.create

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "expression": {
    object (Expression)
  },
  "description": string,
  "tileOptions": {
    object (TileOptions)
  },
  "tileExportOptions": {
    object (ImageFileExportOptions)
  },
  "requestId": string
}
Fields
expression

object (Expression)

An expression that evaluates to the image to compute and export. The bounds of the image will be used to determine the set of map tiles to render. To control the exported region, clip the image prior to exporting.
description

string

An optional human-readable name of the task.
tileOptions

object (TileOptions)

Options describing the map tiles to generate.
tileExportOptions

object (ImageFileExportOptions)

Options for where and in what form to export the map tiles. Cloud Storage is currently the only supported destination for map exports.
requestId

string

A unique string used to detect duplicated requests. If more than one request is made by the same user with the same non-empty requestId, only one of those requests may successfully start a long-running operation. requestId may contain the characters a..z, A..Z, 0-9, or '-'. requestId may be at most 60 characters long.

Response body

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

Authorization Scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

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

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.