Remove 0 / no-data value for a Google Drive export for areas outside of of the export geometry's bounding box

[davidoesch]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When exporting the image, I use the bounding box of the geometry.

The no-data values within the bounding box are correct 9999) but I cannot figure out how to set the no-data value of the pixels outside of the bounding box; these seem to default to 0.

Describe the solution you'd like

• specifying the export projection when calling the bound: see solution proposed in https://groups.google.com/g/google-earth-engine-developers/c/aL0NfsxzMf0
• no data value has to dependend on the product / band type ( e.g. VHI in 8 bit with a range from 0-100, nodata set to be eg 255, and different for S2_SR 10m bands with 16 int 8bit bands etc

[davidoesch]

it is not fixed yet

[davidoesch]

needs to be fixed in the satromo_publisher step at

topo-satromo/satromo_publish.py

Line 671 in 30e4e88

as seprate util function?, since in the GEE assets it is already masked correctly
The approach is: to get from metafile the asset ID the get the masked /non masked area

``
asset_id = 'projects/satromo-int/assets/COL_S2_SR_HARMONIZED_SWISS/S2-L2A_mosaic_2024-07-05T104021_bands-10m'

Load the asset.

asset = ee.Image(asset_id)

Select the first band of the image and convert it to an integral image.

first_band = asset.select(0).toInt()

Create a binary mask.

binary_mask = first_band.mask()

Invert the mask to get the non-masked areas.

non_masked = binary_mask.Not()

Convert the non-masked areas to vectors.

vectors = non_masked.reduceToVectors(geometryType='polygon', maxPixels=1e9, bestEffort=True)

Convert the vectors to GeoJSON.

geojson = vectors.getInfo()

Extract the features from GeoJSON

features = geojson['features']

Extract geometries and properties

geometries = [shape(feature['geometry']) for feature in features]
properties = [feature['properties'] for feature in features]

Create a GeoDataFrame

gdf = gpd.GeoDataFrame(properties, geometry=geometries)

Define output shapefile path

output_shapefile = 'output.shp'

Define the CRS

crs = {'init': 'epsg:2056'}

Export to Shapefile with specified CRS

gdf.to_file(output_shapefile, driver='ESRI Shapefile', crs=crs)

print(f"Shapefile exported successfully to {output_shapefile}")

``

• then cast this as config.BUFFER. / use it a config.BUFFER
• Make sur that you check if output.shp exists so it does not need to be claulcated everytime

[davidoesch]

We solve thsi differently: We precompute for each orbit a buffer https://code.earthengine.google.com/279232b086bcfb5d456fe26eda6b09c6
the apply this buffer when creating the mosaic in satromo_publisher: Advantage: we save EECU hours, and we alawys have the orginal data masked in GEE assets. Disadvantage: with orbit shifts we will miss some tiles

[davidoesch]

fixed on dev