Input a Shapefile in Google Earth Engine (GEE)
4 min readFeb 27, 2020
In Google Earth Engine, we can do process to the data we have in the raster or vector format. Raster data can be accessed in Image Collection and vector data can be accessed through Feature Collections. Oftentimes, we want to display a specific area of interest that is saved in shapefile format from our computer directory.
A shapefile is an ESRI vector data storage format for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features. It is stored as a set of related files and contains one feature class. Shapefiles often contain large…