ee-wildfire 2025.0.9

Pulls data from Google Earth Engine, syncs it to Google Drive, and downloads files.

Todo List

• Authentication requires GUI access to web-browser. I want the authentication to happen on the command line, so that the tool works over ssh.

• Catch timeout when downloading data.

• Tie to Jesse's google drive, might be weird because its a shared folder.

Project Summary

Earth-Engine-Wildfire-Data is a Python command-line utility and library for extracting and transforming wildfire-related geospatial data from Google Earth Engine. It supports:

• Access to MODIS, VIIRS, GRIDMET, and other remote sensing datasets.

• Filtering wildfire perimeters by date, size, and region.

• Combining daily and final fire perimeters.

• Generating YAML config files for use in simulation or prediction tools.

• Command-line configurability with persistent YAML-based settings.

• This tool is intended for researchers, data scientists, or modelers working with wildfire data pipelines, particularly those interested in integrating Earth Engine datasets into geospatial ML workflows.

Prerequisite

Requires at least python 3.10.

As of mid-2023, Google Earth Engine access must be linked to a Google Cloud Project, even for free/non-commercial usage. So sign up for a non-commercial earth engine account.

🔐 Google API Setup Instructions

To run this project with Google Earth Engine and Google Drive access, follow the steps below to create and configure your credentials.

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1. ✅ Create a Service Account

In the Google Cloud Console, do the following:

• Go to IAM & Admin → Service Accounts → Create Service Account
• Assign the following roles to the Service Account:
  • Owner
  • Service Usage Admin
  • Service Usage Consumer
  • Storage Admin
  • Storage Object Creator

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2. 🔑 Assign Roles to Your Personal Account

Make sure your main Google Cloud account (the one you'll log in with) has these roles:

• Owner
• Service Usage Admin
• Service Usage Consumer

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3. 🧭 Create OAuth Credentials (for Google Drive Access)

Still in the Google Cloud Console:

• Go to APIs & Services → Credentials → + Create Credentials → OAuth Client ID
• If prompted, configure the OAuth consent screen:
  • Choose Desktop App
  • Provide a name (e.g., "Drive Access")
• Once created:
  • Download the JSON file (this is your OAuth credentials)
  • Save the client_id and client_secret (you’ll use these in your config)

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4. 🚀 Enable Required APIs

In the left-hand menu:

• Go to APIs & Services → Library
• Enable the following APIs:
  • Google Drive API
  • Google Earth Engine API

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5. 👤 Add Test Users (Required for OAuth)

• Go to APIs & Services → OAuth consent screen
• Scroll to the Test Users section
• Click + Add Users and add your personal Google account (the one you'll use for authentication)

Install Instructions

For the stable build:

pip install ee-wildfire

For the experimental build:

git clone [e-mail]:KylesCorner/Earth-Engine-Wildfire-Data.git
cd Earth-Engine-Wildfire-Data
pip install -e .

Configuration

There are two ways to configure this tool; you can use command line arguments to alter the internal YAML file, or you can input your own YAML. Here's a template:

year: '2020'
min_size: 1000000
geojson_dir: /home/kyle/NRML/data/perims/
output: /home/kyle/NRML/data/tiff/
drive_dir: EarthEngine_WildfireSpreadTS_2020
credentials: /home/kyle/NRML/OAuth/credentials.json
download: false
export_data: false
show_config: true
force_new_geojson: false
sync_year: true

Command-Line Interface (CLI)

This tool can be run from the command line to generate fire configuration YAML files from GeoJSON data. Configuration can be passed directly via flags or through a YAML file using --config.

Argument	Type	Description
--config	str	Path to a YAML configuration file. Defaults to ./config_options.yml.
--year	str	The year of the fire events to process.
--min-size	float	Minimum fire size (in square meters) to include.
--output	str	Local directory to store generated TIFF files.
--drive-dir	str	Google Drive directory where TIFFs are uploaded or downloaded from.
--credentials	str	Path to the Google OAuth2 credentials JSON file. Required for GEE export.
--geojson-dir	str	Path to the input or output directory for GeoJSON files containing fire perimeter data.
--download	flag	If set, the tool will download TIFF files from Google Drive.
--export-data	flag	If set, data will be exported to Google Drive using Earth Engine.
--show-config	flag	Print the currently loaded configuration and exit. Useful for debugging.
--force-new-geojson	flag	Force the script to generate a new GeoJSON file even if one exists.
--sync-year	flag	Have all config and output files sync to the year in the config.
--version	flag	Outputs current program version.

Basic Usage

ee-wildfire --config ./config_options.yml --year 2020 --geojson data/perims/

Acknowledgements

This project builds on work from the WildfireSpreadTSCreateDataset. Credit to original authors for providing data, methods, and insights.