Importing image into Google Colab as Earth Engine asset from Google cloud storage

Question

When I run the following code in Google Colab, the image gets imported from Earth Engine assets folder into Google Colab such that I can visualize it:

import ee
imageROI = ee.Image('users/username/fileName')

However, instead of referring an asset from the Earth Engine, I want to reference an image from google cloud storage. Is there any method to do so? An example that has not been working:

import ee
imageROI = ee.Image('gs://bucket/fileName')

I am looking for something on these lines so that I can reference an image directly from Google cloud storage.

Answer 1

You cannot access imagery from Cloud Storage directly, you have to upload them as assets first. This post show how you can do that from Colab:

!earthengine --no-use_cloud_api upload image --asset_id={outputAssetID} {outputImageFile} {outputJsonFile}