GEE Tutorial #10 - Using shapefiles with Earth Engine without having to upload data to GEE

This video shows you how to use shapefiles with Google Earth Engine without having to upload data to your GEE account.

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[anandshweta]

Thank you very much professor for these videos. I am learning very much from these!

[pvelasquezfranco]

This is great! Upload the layers was so aweful. Thanks Professor Wu!

[yasertahmasebi]

Great! I've tried to use it in Google Colab but the output showed no module "pycrs" found. I installed pycrs in Colab and the code ran correctly. Please try to add "pycrs" package for Colab in the next release. Thanks

[aminshakya]

Learning a lot from this playlist; Thank you, Dr. WQS! :)

[Victorcurta]

Thank you! In the minute 6:44 you laughing when the personal assistent robot say "Sorry!" is priceless. hahaha

[noyayu]

Looking forward to the next lesson. ^ ^ python+gee seem to be really powerful

[nuttiwutpoonsuwan]

Thank you very much professor for this lesson, but I got an error while following your instruction. I got error "The input shapefile could not be found" and attributeerror "The image argument in 'addLayer' function must be an instance of one of ee.Image, ee.Geometry, ee.Feature or ee.FeatureCollection." I tried to input absolute file path but still can't seem to fix this problem. and If I have to upload shp file to gee account, how can I use them? Thank you in advance!

[zijianwang]

Great Video ! thanks professor.
I got a simply question hoping to clarify. When I following the step that to write down local absolute path("K:\Research\Data\Yellow_River_shp\Yellow_River.shp"), it meets error that The input shapefile could not be found, is there anything wrong in my path? really appreciate it!!!

[samuelcoopersungoh]

hello professor, I am using geemap and ee in arcpro notebooks and when I try to load a shapefile using the geemap.shp_to_ee(), I get the error: No module named 'pycrs'. Do you have any suggestions?

[astervolta]

Thank you, Dr. Wu. When I try to download SHP of MODIS Land Cover for Mongolia, l get "An error occurred while downloading. Image.clipToBoundsAndScale: The geometry for image clipping must be bounded"

[taoxie]

Recently, I was confused about how to load the local shp file, I tried to convert shp to json and then add it as ee.object. Although the shp file was eventually loaded locally, Dr. Wu solved this problem perfectly .It's very useful.

[AdeelKhan-pntc]

Dr. Wu some great work! Thanks for sharing.

[astekita]

hi Dr. Wu, i have a problem

Unable to open or
Could not convert the geojson to ee.Geometry()
stat: path should be string, bytes, os.PathLike or integer, not NoneType
Do you know what it could be? thanks...

[prof.biplabbiswas]

Thanks for the excellent tutorials and your beautiful explanations. May I please know any scripts for land subsidence study using SAR Data. Thanks

[OmarMagdyNofal]

Nice video, If I want to use symbology for specific fields in the shapefile like I have building points and each building has a certain type. I want to color-coded the building points based on their types. How can I do that?

[joaopaulocardoso]

hi, i hope can you help-me... when i'm trying, show-me : Invalid projection: epsg:5858: (Internal Proj Error: proj_create: SQLite error on SELECT name, coordinate_system_auth_name, coordinate_system_code, geodetic_crs_auth_name, geodetic_crs_code, conversion_auth_name, conversion_code, area_of_use_auth_name, area_of_use_code, text_definition, deprecated FROM projected_crs WHERE auth_name = ? AND code = ?: no such column: area_of_use_auth_name) .... helpe-me!!

[priscilliastela]

Dr. Wu, thank you so much for your lesson. This is really helps. I have some problems while following your instruction. I cannot add my shp file it is written that "The input shapefile could not be found." while my shp is in the same folder and I have copied all the 'dbf', 'prj', 'qpj' in also the same file. Do have any suggestions?

[zainabakhtar]

Is it possible to edit the uploaded vector layers directly using the GEE map interface? For example, i have a layer representing flooded regions, but want to be able to edit the vertices manually. Is this possible in geemap?

[RonnyMvtd]

Dear Dr Wu, I have two problems, if I execute geemap.ee_to_shp it returns the following error:
Generating URL ...
An error occurred while downloading.
SHP file format is not supported for CreateTable.

For another way, when I execute geemap.ee_export_vector(states, it returns the following error:
Generating URL ...
An error occurred while downloading.
Invalid value at 'table.file_format' (TYPE_ENUM), "JSON"

Thanks.

[alfredorojas]

Thank you. Do you have to project ESRI .shp files if we plan to do Zonal Stats with another EE object (like NDVI)? Or does GEE project the ESRI .shp file automatically?