Google Earth Engine

Purpose: use GEE's server-side model correctly. The recurring failure modes are client/server confusion (calling .getInfo() in loops, Python if on server objects), unbounded computation (timeouts from unscaled reductions), and silent default scales (statistics computed at the wrong resolution).

Should this run here at all? — Earth Engine versus local

Answer this before writing any ee. code. The decision turns on six things, and you cannot make it without them, so establish them first — asking alongside a provisional recommendation, never instead of one: