Modify pipeline so that if AOI name is a STAC item id then no AOI gpkg geometry needs to be provided to pipeline

[dylanlee]

Right now the pipeline always expects an AOI input where the AOI is a gpkg geometry. For those summer's batch runs the AOI was always associated with a STAC item. The case where the pipeline AOI is associated with a STAC item is a common use case. When this happens the user shouldn't have to supply a gpkg geometry since there the relevant geometry is already provided in the STAC item. The user should only have to supply the STAC item id that contains the geometry they want the pipeline to use to produce and evaluate the HAND data being evaluated.

So to implement these changes we should:

• Modify the --aoi_is_item argument to accept a STAC item id string
• Make it to where when the --aoi_is_item argument is provided then no --aoi argument needs to be provided to the pipeline
• Modify the pipeline src so that when --aoi_is_item is provided by the user the geometry associated with the STAC item is pulled from the benchmark STAC and used to query the HAND data being evaluated

[dylanlee]

Plan to be able to use either STAC Item ID or AOI gpkg to define AOI input

The goal is to refactor the pipeline, submit_stac_batch.py, and the pipeline job definitions to not need an AOI gpkg when --aoi_is_item is provided along with a valid STAC item ID string. Right now --aoi_is_item is a logical flag that extracts the STAC item ID from the AOI gpkg name. When this flag is on then the STAC item is queried by item ID instead of geometry. --aoi_is_itemwill be modified to accept a string and that string will be used to query STAC items by item ID and then extract an AOI within the pipeline itself from the benchmark STAC when aoi_is_item is being used.

Pipeline changes

• Will extract the geometry from the STAC item provided in --aoi_is_item. The geometry will be held in GeoDataFrame and won't be persisted to disk.
• The --aoi argument will become optional. So instead of requiring --aoi we now require one of --aoi or --aoi_is_item
• When a --aoi_is_item string is provided then that will be used when writing the pipeline outputs instead of pulling the aoi name from the 'aoi_name' tag provided by the user.

submit_stac_batch.py changes

The big change to this script will be that we won't be extracting geometries from the benchmark STAC in this script. This should simplify the script quite a bit.

Nomad job definitions:

We will make the aoi meta optional and also add --aoi_is_item as an optional meta parameter. Then conditional logic will be added using a wrapper script around the command that invokes the pipeline in the pipeline Nomad job depending on which meta parameter the user provides.

[ar-siddiqui]

@dylanlee one major issue I have is with nomenclature. The arguments should have more clear names. I suggest --aoi_geom_path and --aoi_stac_item_id. One of these two must be provided. If both are provided then error or warning must be raised.

Other than the above plan looks solid.

[dylanlee]

Okay I will use --aoi_geom_path and --aoi_stac_item_id as the argument names and proceed with the plan