Chapter 5: Visualizing Geospatial Data

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Technical Requirements

To study this chapter, you will need to install geemap and several optional dependencies.If you have followed Chapter 1 - Introducing GEE and Geemap, you should already have a conda environment with the necessary packages installed.Otherwise, you need to create a new conda environment and install the pygis package with the following command, which will automatically install geemap and all necessary dependencies:

conda create -n gee pythonconda activate geeconda install mambamamba install -c conda-forge pygis

Next, start JupyterLab by typing the following command at the terminal or Anaconda prompt:

jupyter lab

Import the libraries that will be used in this chapter:

import eeimport geemap

Initialize the Earth Engine Python API:

geemap.ee_initialize