[feature request]: Animation for Image Collections

[bijanvakili]

Description

Add the ability to render animated (tiled thumbnails) of image collections to the Layer.add_ee_layer method in the geemap.deck extension module. This is useful for visualizing dynamic weather patterns.

At present, no such animation feature exists directly from the python module. Instead, the module only allows compositing image collections into a single static image here iusing the ee.ImageCollection.mosaic.

Source code

The geemap 29 pydeck tutorial includes an example here where a ee.ImageCollection object is used to set up an animation of weather patterns. This is actually taken from the notebook example here in the from the pydeck-earthengine-layer python package.

NOTE: The earthengine-layers package is currently not rendering in Jupyter notebooks. See earthengine-layers issue #133

The animate boolean flag enables logic from the embedded Javascript code here to produce and run animation from the image collection’s tiled thumbnail (ee.ImageCollection.getFilmstripTumbUrl).

This same logic could be added to geemap.deck instead.

[giswqs]

You might be interested in the time slider funciton: https://geemap.org/notebooks/62_time_slider

Another relevant function: create_timelapse.

As I mentioned previously, the deck module is no longer being activately developed. You are welcome to submit a PR to contribute to it..