REST Resource: projects.videoThumbnails

  • VideoThumbnail is a resource that represents information about a video thumbnail, allowing rendering of animations from image collections.

  • It includes fields like name, expression for the ImageCollection, videoOptions for animation, fileFormat currently supporting GIF, and an optional grid for reprojection and clipping.

  • Users can utilize methods like create to generate an ID for rendering animation and getPixels to compute and display the resulting image.

Resource: VideoThumbnail

Information about a video thumbnail.

JSON representation 
{
  "name": string,
  "expression": {
    object (Expression)
  },
  "videoOptions": {
    object (VideoOptions)
  },
  "fileFormat": enum (VideoFileFormat),
  "grid": {
    object (PixelGrid)
  }
}
Fields
name

string

The resource name representing the video thumbnail, of the form "projects/*/videoThumbnails/**" (e.g. "projects/earthengine-legacy/videoThumbnails/").
expression

object (Expression)

The expression to compute. Must evaluate to an ImageCollection.
videoOptions

object (VideoOptions)

Options for the animation.
fileFormat

enum (VideoFileFormat)

The output encoding in which to generate the resulting video thumbnail. Currently only GIF is supported.
grid

object (PixelGrid)

An optional pixel grid describing how the images computed by expression are reprojected and clipped.

Methods

create

 Creates an ID that can be used to render an image containing an animation of multiple images from a collection.

getPixels

 Computes an image showing the result of a computation.