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.

github colab

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
  0.263     59k     6  Algorithm Image.reduceRegions
  0.198    567k    87  Loading assets: projects/google/charts_feature_example
  0.159    378k   831  (plumbing)
  0.023    727k    86  no description available
  0.010    200k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/08@1662731245955723
  0.010    110k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/07@1662732032798195
  0.010    109k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/10@1662731228874571
  0.009    111k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/04@1662730567169297
  0.009    114k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/12@1662731114457874
  0.009    110k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/09@1662730604988590
  0.009    110k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/03@1662731338127317
  0.009    113k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/06@1662731651724226
  0.009    109k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/02@1662731486284455
  0.009    199k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/11@1662731554688435
  0.009    114k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/05@1662731334196830
  0.008    121k    11  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/01@1662731626359925
  0.005     360    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    9.7k    15  Algorithm ImageCollection.toBands
  0.002    3.3k    13  Algorithm Collection.reduceColumns with reducer Reducer.toList
  0.001    3.9k    15  Algorithm Image.select
  0.001    5.8k    15  Algorithm Image.rename
  0.001    3.1k    14  Algorithm ReduceRegions.AggregationContainer
  0.000     424     3  Listing collection
  0.000     61k    51  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m
  0.000    113k     3  Computing image mask from geometry
   -        89k    26  Algorithm Collection.reduceColumns
   -        44k    19  Algorithm List.map
   -        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
   -        30k     5  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM/Norm91m/01
   -        22k    40  Algorithm AggregateFeatureCollection.array
   -        10k    15  Algorithm Collection.loadTable
   -       9.9k    15  Algorithm ImageCollection.load
   -       9.0k     4  Algorithm Projection
   -       8.5k     1  Algorithm (user-defined function)
   -       7.1k     4  Algorithm ReduceRegions.ReduceRegionsEnumerator
   -       5.4k    15  Algorithm Collection.map
   -       3.6k    14  Algorithm Dictionary.fromLists
   -       3.3k    14  Algorithm Feature.select
   -       3.3k    10  Algorithm If
   -       3.2k     4  Algorithm String.compareTo
   -       3.2k    10  Algorithm Number.eq
   -       3.1k     4  Algorithm Reducer.forEach
   -       3.0k    10  Algorithm ObjectType
   -       2.9k    37  Algorithm String
   -       2.8k    20  Loading assets: OREGONSTATE/PRISM
   -       2.8k    20  Loading assets: projects/google
   -       1.8k     1  Algorithm Number.format
   -        624     5  Algorithm Reducer.mean
   -        392     7  Expression evaluation
   -        264    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': [4480, 3000],
 '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 0.477 59000 6 Algorithm
1 0.253 568000 87 Loading
2 0.196 382000 831 (plumbing)
3 0.029 727000 86 no
4 0.011 212000 11 Loading
# total EECU cost of the computation
float(df["EECU-s"].sum())
1.092