Earth Engine is introducingnoncommercial quota tiersto safeguard shared compute resources and ensure reliable performance for everyone. All noncommercial projects will need to select a quota tier byApril 27, 2026or will use the Community Tier by default. Tier quotas will take effect for all projects (regardless of tier selection date) onApril 27, 2026.Learn more.
Required. The name of the asset to get.nameis of the format "projects/*/assets/**" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-legacy/assets/users/[USER]/[ASSET]"). All user-owned assets are under the project "earthengine-legacy" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-legacy/assets/users/foo/bar"). All other assets are under the project "earthengine-public" (e.g., "projects/earthengine-public/assets/LANDSAT").
Authorization requires the followingIAMpermission on the specified resourcename:
earthengine.assets.get
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance ofEarthEngineAsset.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-03-06 UTC."],[],["This API call retrieves detailed information about a specific asset. A `GET` request is made to the provided URL, including the asset's name in the format \"projects/*/assets/**\". User-owned assets reside under the \"earthengine-legacy\" project, while others are in \"earthengine-public\". The request body is empty, and successful responses provide an `EarthEngineAsset` instance. Authorization requires the `earthengine.assets.get` IAM permission and one of several specified OAuth scopes.\n"]]
