Earth Engine has introduced noncommercial quota tiers to safeguard shared compute resources and ensure reliable performance for everyone. Noncommercial projects use the Community Tier by default, though you can change a project's tier at any time.
[null,null,["Last updated 2023-10-06 UTC."],[],["The `serialize` method returns a string representation of a `ComputedObject`. It is called on a `ComputedObject` instance. The method accepts an optional boolean argument, `legacy`, to enable a legacy format. The JavaScript usage `String.serialize(legacy)` returns a string. In Python examples, `ee.String('earth').serialize()` demonstrates how to serialize the string 'earth', using both a standard import and in the Colab environment.\n"]]