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
  0.298     59k     6  Algorithm Image.reduceRegions
  0.264    567k    87  Loading assets: projects/google/charts_feature_example
  0.194    345k   831  (plumbing)
  0.028    679k    86  no description available
  0.011    202k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/07@1662732032798195
  0.011    212k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/04@1662730567169297
  0.011    200k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/08@1662731245955723
  0.010    199k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/11@1662731554688435
  0.010    211k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/05@1662731334196830
  0.010    198k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/10@1662731228874571
  0.010    205k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/02@1662731486284455
  0.010    198k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/01@1662731626359925
  0.010    209k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/06@1662731651724226
  0.010    199k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/09@1662730604988590
  0.010    210k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/03@1662731338127317
  0.010    198k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/12@1662731114457874
  0.005     392    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
  0.001    4.0k    15  Algorithm Image.select
  0.001    5.8k    15  Algorithm Image.rename
  0.001    3.1k    14  Algorithm ReduceRegions.AggregationContainer
  0.000     488     3  Listing collection
  0.000     61k    51  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m
  0.000    112k     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/06
   -        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/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
   -        27k    14  Algorithm Dictionary.fromLists
   -        23k    40  Algorithm AggregateFeatureCollection.array
   -        11k    15  Algorithm Collection.loadTable
   -       9.9k    15  Algorithm ImageCollection.load
   -       8.9k     4  Algorithm Projection
   -       8.5k     1  Algorithm (user-defined function)
   -       6.9k     4  Algorithm ReduceRegions.ReduceRegionsEnumerator
   -       5.2k    15  Algorithm Collection.map
   -       3.4k    14  Algorithm Feature.select
   -       3.3k    10  Algorithm If
   -       3.3k     4  Algorithm String.compareTo
   -       3.2k    10  Algorithm Number.eq
   -       3.2k     4  Algorithm Reducer.forEach
   -       3.1k    37  Algorithm String
   -       3.1k    10  Algorithm ObjectType
   -       2.9k    20  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM
   -       2.9k    20  Loading assets: projects/google
   -       1.9k     1  Algorithm Number.format
   -        640     5  Algorithm Reducer.mean
   -        472     7  Expression evaluation
   -        328    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': [0.001, None],
 'PeakMem': [5120, 3200],
 '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 0.301 59000 6 Algorithm
1 0.199 565000 87 Loading
2 0.149 345000 831 (plumbing)
3 0.023 621000 86 no
4 0.010 199000 11 Loading
# total EECU cost of the computation
float(df["EECU-s"].sum())
0.799

Last updated on Nov 24, 2024.