ee.Array.max

Page Summary

• Array.max() selects the element-wise maximum of two arrays.

• It takes two arrays as arguments, left and right, and returns a new array.

• The returned array contains the maximum value at each corresponding position from the input arrays.

On an element-wise basis, selects the maximum of the first and second values.

Usage	Returns
Array.max(right)	Array

Argument	Type	Details
this: left	Array	The left-hand value.
right	Array	The right-hand value.

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var empty = ee.Array([], ee.PixelType.int8());
print(empty.max(empty));  // []

var array1 = ee.Array([0, -3, 5, 3]);
var array2 = ee.Array([0, -1, 2, 4]);
print(array1.max(array2));  // [0,-1,5,4]

Python setup

See the Python Environment page for information on the Python API and using geemap for interactive development.

import ee
import geemap.core as geemap

Colab (Python)

empty = ee.Array([], ee.PixelType.int8())
display(empty.max(empty))  # []

array1 = ee.Array([0, -3, 5, 3])
array2 = ee.Array([0, -1, 2, 4])
display(array1.max(array2))  # [0, -1, 5, 4]