Profile Earth Engine computation#

The Earth Engine API provides tools for profiling the performance of your computations but they are not always the easiest to use to get the number you are looking for. The geetools library supercharge the original profiler to make any computation evaluation the easiest possible.

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Set up environment#

Install all the requireed libs if necessary. and perform the import satements upstream.

# uncomment if installation of libs is necessary
# !pip install earthengine-api geetools
import ee
import geetools
import pandas as pd
# uncomment if authetication to GEE is needed
# ee.Authenticate()
# ee.Intialize(project="<your_project>")

Example data#

The following examples rely on a ee.FeatureCollection composed of three ecoregion features that define regions by which to reduce image data. The Image data are PRISM climate normals, where bands describe climate variables per month; e.g., July precipitation or January mean temperature.

ecoregions = (
    ee.FeatureCollection("projects/google/charts_feature_example")
    .select(["label", "value","warm"])
)

normClim = ee.ImageCollection('OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m').toBands()

default profiler#

The default profiler from Earth Engine can be called as a context manager, it will print at the end of the cell the extensive description of your computation.

with ee.profilePrinting():
    normClim.geetools.byBands(
        regions = ecoregions,
        reducer = "mean",
        scale = 500,
        regionId = "label",
        bands = [f"{i:02d}_tmean" for i in range(1,13)],
    ).getInfo()
 EECU·s PeakMem Count  Description
  0.292     59k     6  Algorithm Image.reduceRegions
  0.243    563k    87  Loading assets: projects/google/charts_feature_example
  0.197    352k   831  (plumbing)
  0.026    652k    86  no description available
  0.011    110k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/09@1662730604988590
  0.011    115k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/12@1662731114457874
  0.011    111k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/04@1662730567169297
  0.011    109k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/10@1662731228874571
  0.011    113k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/06@1662731651724226
  0.011    109k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/02@1662731486284455
  0.010    112k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/03@1662731338127317
  0.010    106k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/11@1662731554688435
  0.010    110k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/07@1662732032798195
  0.010    108k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/08@1662731245955723
  0.010    114k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/05@1662731334196830
  0.010    121k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/01@1662731626359925
  0.008     368    72  Reprojecting pixels from GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["North_American_Datum_1983",SPHEROID[...] to GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["North_American_Datum_1983",SPHEROID[...]
  0.002    3.2k    13  Algorithm Collection.reduceColumns with reducer Reducer.toList
  0.002    9.7k    15  Algorithm ImageCollection.toBands
  0.002    3.9k    15  Algorithm Image.select
  0.001    5.8k    15  Algorithm Image.rename
  0.001    3.1k    14  Algorithm ReduceRegions.AggregationContainer
  0.001     432     3  Listing collection
  0.000     61k    51  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m
  0.000    113k     3  Computing image mask from geometry
   -        90k    26  Algorithm Collection.reduceColumns
   -        45k    19  Algorithm List.map
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/01
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/12
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/11
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/10
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/09
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/08
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/07
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/06
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/05
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/04
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/03
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/02
   -        28k    14  Algorithm Dictionary.fromLists
   -        23k    40  Algorithm AggregateFeatureCollection.array
   -        11k    15  Algorithm Collection.loadTable
   -       9.9k    15  Algorithm ImageCollection.load
   -       8.7k     4  Algorithm Projection
   -       8.5k     1  Algorithm (user-defined function)
   -       7.1k     4  Algorithm ReduceRegions.ReduceRegionsEnumerator
   -       5.3k    15  Algorithm Collection.map
   -       3.3k    14  Algorithm Feature.select
   -       3.3k    10  Algorithm If
   -       3.2k     4  Algorithm Reducer.forEach
   -       3.2k    10  Algorithm Number.eq
   -       3.1k     4  Algorithm String.compareTo
   -       3.0k    37  Algorithm String
   -       3.0k    10  Algorithm ObjectType
   -       2.8k    20  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM
   -       2.8k    20  Loading assets: projects/google
   -       1.8k     1  Algorithm Number.format
   -        584     5  Algorithm Reducer.mean
   -        416     7  Expression evaluation
   -        272    72  Algorithm Image.load computing pixels

This result is extremely useful but cannot be further explored in the notebook.

geetools profiler#

The geetools profiler is a context manager object that fill a dictionary member (profile) with the content of the string profile. This dictionary can be transformed into a table easily.

# example with a simple function
with ee.geetools.Profiler() as p:
    ee.Number(3.14).add(0.00159).getInfo()
p.profile
{'EECU-s': [0.0, None],
 'PeakMem': [4720, 3100],
 'Count': [3, 3],
 'Description': ['(plumbing)', 'Algorithm']}

With a bigger method we can valorized the results as a pandas dataframe and extract key informations.

with ee.geetools.Profiler() as p:
    normClim.geetools.byBands(
        regions = ecoregions,
        reducer = "mean",
        scale = 500,
        regionId = "label",
        bands = [f"{i:02d}_tmean" for i in range(1,13)],
    ).getInfo()
df = pd.DataFrame(p.profile)
df.head()
EECU-s PeakMem Count Description
0 0.278 59000 6 Algorithm
1 0.194 564000 85 Loading
2 0.153 345000 827 (plumbing)
3 0.024 655000 86 no
4 0.010 198000 11 Loading
# total EECU cost of the computation
float(df["EECU-s"].sum())
0.772

Last updated on Nov 24, 2024.