I recently needed to export an image from Earth Engine to overlay with a local GeoTIFF. Translating the CRS and transforms between the local rasterio metadata and the format expected by GEE to get identical grids turned out to be surprisingly frustrating, so I thought I’d do a quick write up to hopefully save myself a future headache. Reference Metadata Assuming we have a local GeoTIFF reference.tif, we can grab the relevant metadata with:
