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Adding GEE Image asset
Dear OpenForis Support, I was trying to add an image asset from Google Earth Engine to no avail. I hereby provide the input parameters: Select type: GEE Image Asset Title: TinggiPohon Asset ID: users/nlang/ETH_GlobalCanopyHeight_2020_10m_v1 Visualization Parameters: {min: 5, max: 60} However, when...
Importing .cep in the newest version of Collect Earth Online
Dear OpenForis Community, From what I read on the release notes, the newer versions of Collect Earth Online supports importing .cep project files. However, I wasn't able to load the survey questions on Collect Earth Online after I selected the .cep file on the Project Creation Wizard. I am aware tha...
Collect Earth Online Update and Planet Monthly Composites
It seems that sometime after the update of Collect Earth Online to the new interface that Planet Monthly Composites have stopped loading (the map remains white regardless of year/month selection). I've confirmed my access token/API key has not changed and the imagery still looks like its configured ...
QA/QC and Plot Assignment by File Not Selectable in Collect.Earth online?
Basically what the title suggest, when setting up plots in the Collect.Earth Online project editing tool the option to manually assign users and plots for QA/QC via a file upload is in the drop-downs but can't be selected. Is there any way to manually assign plots to multiple users for QA/QC and/or ...
CollectEarth Online CSV Upload Broken?
No matter what format data I try to use, CSV, SHP, etc. nothing seems to work in terms of uploading during the plot design phase for project creation. There are no error messages, I've tried correctly formatted (PLOTID,LAT,LON) and purposely incorrectly formatted files to the same effect. It seems t...
Alphabetical sorting of imagery dropdown
Currently the imagery dropdown menu in a project appears to be ordered based on the sequence in which an institution's imagery assets were added to the platform. For projects with many imagery sources, this makes it difficult for users to quickly locate and switch between layers. It would be very he...
How to display Sentinel-2 image date or scene information in a CEO project?
This is my first time using CEO, and I would like to collect burned area data for fire mapping. I am focusing on June 2019 over a large study area (~400,000 km²). Based on my image collection from Google Earth Engine, there are about 600 Sentinel-2 images covering the area during that month. When us...
Unable to add new users to my Institution on Collect.earth online
Hello Collect.earth team, I am an admin member of my Institution, but am not able to add any new users to the group for labeling. Is this an issue that is across Collect.earth due to an update, or something that might be institution specific? (As of 3/10/2026)
NDVI Sentinel2 Time Series Graph in GeoDash
How to create a time series graph for Sentinel-2 NDVI in the Collect Earth Online GeoDashboard?
Server failure? Can't open projects...
Sorry for the alarming title, but my team can't open any projects. The platform will open and we can see the list of projects, but when we try to open a project we see the following error: "Cannot invoke \"clojure.lang.IFn.invoke(Object, Object)\" because \"is_authenticated_QMARK_\" is null" We have...
Export and Import Survey from Collect Earth Online
A survey generated in CEO through Project A needs to be shared with a new Project B to use the same survey for a project with different quantification objectives. I've verified that this process can be done with Collect Earth Desktop, but I can't find a suitable method for Collect Earth Online. This...
Reviewing project is erasing answers - critical
Hi devs, We are running into an error when reviewing a completed project using the admin review setting. When we attempt to change the subplot answers and save the changes, an error message pops up saying "this plot has no samples, please flag the plot." It appears that all subplots are Removed on t...
Project sample data not updating
We have a project where plots have multiple users assigned to each. We run multiple rounds of reviews that will allow the users to review any disagreements and change their answers after discussion. However, once we have downloaded the sample data after these rounds of reviews, some samples have the...
CEO - Error creating project - help
CEO - Error creating project - help Hi, whenever i try to create a project it gives me the error below, saying internal server error during project creation request. We had this kind of issue in the past and reported it here, and somehow it got solved. Now it is the same kind of problem again. Note:...
Incomplete samples when downloading csv file
Hello, I am experiencing ongoing issues when downloading csv sample data for completed (or updated) surveys. My download is inconsistently missing samples from plots (which are 14x14 square plots, so should alway have 196 samples). I am working on 3 different surveys and see no consistency in which ...
Planet Imagery No Longer Displaying in Collect Earth – Has Access Been Discontinued?
Hi! I’ve been using Collect Earth Desktop with Planet imagery (via the NICFI program) for Land Use Change monitoring in Africa. As of today, 1st of April 2025, the high-resolution mosaics from Planet are no longer loading in the browser window when accessing it in Earth Map or though the Collect E...
''User's Assignment'' and "Quality Control" fields are missing
Hi! I am encountering trouble when trying to create a new project. In the Plot Design window, the fields for 'User's Assignment' and 'Quality Control,' where users are assigned, are missing. For now, the admin who created the project will automatically be assigned as the interpreter. Hope it's possi...
Some sub-plots not appearing in output sample csv since yesterday (17 mar) in multiple projects
Hi devs, Since yesterday we are facing issues with missing sub-plots in our projects when we download the csv sample data output, one project example is this below: LUCC_Roraima_HRP_2014_2023_sample5_n510 - https://app.collect.earth/review-project?projectId=49111 For example, in that project plots 8...
Planet Imagery Availablity (NICFI) in Collect Earth
Hi, I have been using the planet imagery through NICFI for a while in CEO and they mentioned the end of their contract recently with NICFI, will this affect the availability of planet imagery on CEO?
Comment on the confidence
Dear Open-foris team, I have a question about Collect earth online. Could you please tell me if there is a way to extract “Comment on the confidence” as a csv? We usually download the list of data from‘Download plot data’, and we can extract the value of confidence in the Confidence column, but not ...
Error loading SHP as plots in collectearthonline
In Collect earth online, we already made some projects using shape as plots and csv as samples (1 point sample per plot, or just select "center" to CEO made the samples on the center of each polygon) but now in collect earth online every time we need to upload a zipped shapefile as plots we get the ...
[closed] Collect Earth Online is not working
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[closed] Collect Earth Online appears to be down
Collect Earth Online appears to be down https://collect.earth/ Best regards, Simon
Upload area of interest shp file
I am trying to creat a new ceo project. At the third step (Plot Design) I want to make a gridded plot design within my area of interest (AOI). Unfortunately, the system failed to upload AOI shp file although all files are zipped (.zip file). Could someone help?
Error saving your assignments to the database. See console for details.
For my CEO project, my validators are getting an error that they cannot save their assignments to the database and that I need to see the console for details. Where can I find this error as the administrator? Why is this error occurring and how do I fix it?
Copyright Information of Mapbox iamgery.
Hello. Is the Mapbox imagery that is hosted on Collect Earth Online available for use in a public license? I am wondering if I am permitted to screenshot an image on Collect Earth Online for use in a presentation. The presentation is not for commercial profit. I understand the Planet NICFI images ar...
dropdown questions unanswerable
Hi OF, I have been working on a project in CEO and recently the dropdown questions stopped allowing me to select a response. Therefore I cannot save my responses and continue to collect. The other survey questions (radio button and text) all work fine. This problem started around 4am (9-21-2023). Is...
get information on users in collect earth online
I am an admin for an institution and I can't tell who is who from the email addresses. When people sign up for CEO do they enter their country, gender or any other information? It would be incredible helpful for institution admins to see more information on users than just the email address: for exa...
Reading data from GEE for the deforestation tool
Hi OpenForis Team, I would like to retrieve the data from GEE for a PoV I am building ( especially the NDFI data) and I would need that data on regular basis. Could you please let me know what options I have to get the data without compromising the organization's security policy? Thanks, Regen
How do I download the plot data?
Hi, II generated the NDFI plot in the deforestation widget tool for an AOI. Can you tell me whether the application allows to download this data? If yes, then how? Regards, regen
APIs for collect earth online
Hi, Is there any APIs for collect earth online which can be used programmatically to generate the forest degradation results? Regards, Regen
Can I remove the unanswered color Black White option?
We have a relatively simple survey interface and do not seem to need the default "Unanswered Color: Black White" option, see here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/coj5btde3vpfg43/CEO_black_white.png?dl=0 Is there anyway we can remove this option? Thank you!
Uploading a survey onto Collect Earth Online
Is it now possible to upload a Collect Earth Project file onto Collect Earth Online?
Collect Earth unanswering questions for random samples
I think there is a bug that's causing Collect Earth to unanswer a survey question for a sample that I've already collected and answered all the questions for. And it's unanswering the first question in the survey, so I know I previously answered that because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to co...
Can I view GEE script and GeoDash for hand drawn samples
Hi, I would like to view GEE time series for hand drawn samples (both points and polygons) in Collect Earth Online. However, when I press "Go to GEE Script" or "GeoDash" it always gives me the plot level time series and composites. How do I view the time series and composites for hand drawn sample p...
Adding imagery to Collect Earth Online (JSON Visualization Parameters)
I would like to add my own imagery to a Collect Earth Online project. In particular, I want to visualize a single band that has 7 land cover classes. When I try to set the JSON Visualization Parameters I get an error: "Invalid JSON in the "Visualization Parameters" field." I cannot find any document...
conception de l'enquête Collect Earth Online
Bonjour, je suis en train de vouloir élaborer mon enquête pour la collecte de données, mais je suis confronté à un sérieux problème. En effet, apres avoir suivi la demarche requise quand je clique sur "creer le projet" je recois un message d'erreur me disant ceci Error creeating project: -the provid...
Urgent - cannot save data, All questions must be answered to save the collection.
Please help me, I am unable to save my training data on Collect Earth Online because I keep getting this message: All questions must be answered to save the collection. But I have inspected the entire plot and there are no unanswered questions. I even exported the kml to look at the attribute table ...
CEO Maximum number of samples
Dear OF Colleagues, I have created a survey in Collect Earth Online and would now like to deploy the survey for data collection. There are approximately 1580 sample locations in the sampling frame. Each sampling unit is made up of 49 control points. The survey was created using a sampling frame with...
Collect Earth Online Saves Some Polygon Samples as Points and Others as Polygons
Hello! I am using Collect Earth Online to label the cause of tree cover loss. I have uploaded samples as polygons around the tree cover loss, and for the most part I click on the sample polygon and classify it as one of our loss causes (forestry, wildfire, urbanization, etc). However when I download...
Collect Earth Online Multi-Polygon Plot Boundaries
Hello, I am looking to create plot boundaries with multi-polygons, is this possible in collect earth online? We could split these multi-polygons into single polygons, however that would cause the number of plots to increase by a lot. Thanks!
error creating project
Dear Support members, I face a problem creating a new project in Collect Earth (https://collect.earth/create-project?institutionId=1200). I delimit the project AOI, leave other options at default and load a CSV file of 86 gridded plots at 500 m distance, which I created previously using Google Earth...
Geo-Dash widget - Display Sentinel imagery
Dear OpenForis support, I am busy building a survey for forest cover analysis, I would like to add a couple of Sentinel images to the geo-dash tool. I have followed the instructions on https://collect.earth/geo-dash/geo-dash-help but have not been able to see the imagery while testing the survey. La...
How to use Google Earth Pro historical VHR imagery and SAIKU analysis in Collect Earth Online?
I have two questions. Firstly, when using Collect Earth Online (CEO), how do I scroll through time in Google Earth Pro's historical Very High Resolution (VHR) imagery? Secondly, can I use SAIKU in CEO? If not, can I use an output from CEO as input to SAIKU via Collect Earth (e.g. the *.cep file)? ...
Create Plot & Sample Design (Error creating project)
Hey, I attempt to create a project by uploading my own plots and sample points (in .shp files). There are 6 plots with 8000+ sample points. Those files were succefully uploaded, but the project was failed to be created. A pop-up window/message showed Error creating project: -This action will create...
Import *.cep file into Collect Earth Online
Dear Colleagues, I have a detailed survey that has, in the past, been used for collecting land cover change data in Collect Earth. I would like to replicate the data collection process using Collect Earth Online. Is it possible to import a *.cep file directly into CEO? Many thanks, Wesley
GEO-DASH on Collect earth for Image collection
Collect-earth in GEO-DASH Widget in the Image collection Landsat and Sentinal image is not seen.
From when is base map imagery?
For validation it is very important to know how old the reference data is. For the base maps no date of image collection is shown. Is there any information on the images? DigitalGlobeRecentImagery sounds like it is recent, but how old is that composite? I am afraid it is not from this year.
wms map doesn't appear in project
I added a new imagery layer, but it doesn't appear in the project I created. Also the DigitalGlobelWMSImagery nor the BinAerial don't show up in my project (or in another public project). The DigitalGlobeImagery layers on the other hand, do show up. When adding a new imagery layer (WMS), I left the ...
How to use Geo-Dash in Collect Earth Online?
Hey, The Geo-Dashboard in Collect Earth Online is a very good idea. However, I can't figure out how to get it running. I created some Geo-Dash tiles. When working on the project a new tab with the Geo-Dash opens every time I save a plot. But unfortunately no data from Earth Engine renders. Neither...
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