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The project id or project number of the Google Cloud Platform project that should be treated as the service consumer for this request. Format isprojects/{project-id}.
Authorization requires the followingIAMpermission on the specified resourceproject:
earthengine.imports.create
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
A unique string used to detect duplicated requests. If more than one request is made by the same user with the same non-emptyrequestId, only one of those requests may successfully start a long-running operation.requestIdmay contain the characters a..z, A..Z, 0-9, or '-'.requestIdmay be at most 60 characters long.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance ofOperation.
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