How to export Google Earth Engine images to local files using Python

Question

I'm producing a ge image using this code:

image = ee.ImageCollection(satellite) \
            .filterDate(startdate, enddate) \
            .filterBounds(ee.Geometry.Point(centroid[0], centroid[1])) \
            .select(bands) \
            .map(removeClouds) \
            .mean()
type(image)

<class 'ee.image.Image'>

How can I save the resulting image as a local GeoTIFF file, that is, a file stored in the desktop machine that's running the script?

Answer 1

You cannot download it directly to your local directory. As explained here, "Because Google Earth Engine data exports are asyncronous, the destinations are also cloud-based. Your options are Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, or new assets in Earth Engine."

For extracting images from Google Drive, this answer can help you.