cartoee: Publication quality maps using Earth Engine

Abstract

Cartoee is a Python package that bridges server-side processing of Earth Engine to clientside map creation without having to download data using the Earth Engine Python API. The motivation of Cartoee is to help scientist create high-quality figures using Earth Engine quickly, in an established library, and with minimal data transfer. The API for Cartoee was designed for users who are familiar with creating maps in Earth Engine’s JavaScript API to create figures using the Matplotlib library (Hunter, 2007) while using Cartopy (Met Office, 2010–2015) to handle cartographic projections and other map elements. Earth Engine is becoming more and more prevalent in the Earth science community as an analysis tool. With Cartoee scientist will be able to quickly create high-quality figures for publication without having to transfer large volumes of data.