REST Resource: projects.videoThumbnails

  • VideoThumbnail is a resource that represents information about a video thumbnail.

  • It includes fields like name, expression to compute, video options, file format, and an optional pixel grid.

  • VideoThumbnail allows for creating an ID for rendering an animation from an image collection and computing an image from a computation.

  • Currently, only GIF is supported as the output encoding for the video thumbnail.

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.