ee.FeatureCollection.get

Page Summary

• FeatureCollection.get extracts a property from a feature.

• The function takes the feature itself and the property name (as a string) as arguments.

• The function returns the value of the specified property.

• The returned value is an ee.ComputedObject, which can be cast to the relevant Earth Engine object class for further use.

Extract a property from a feature.

Usage	Returns
FeatureCollection.get(property)

Argument	Type	Details
this: object	Element	The feature to extract the property from.
property	String	The property to extract.

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

// A global power plant FeatureCollection.
var fc = ee.FeatureCollection('WRI/GPPD/power_plants');

// View a list of FeatureCollection property names.
print(fc.propertyNames());

// Get the value of a listed property.
print('Global power plant data provider as ee.ComputedObject',
      fc.get('provider'));

// The returned value is an ee.ComputedObject which has no methods available for
// further processing; cast to the relevant Earth Engine object class for use.
print('Global power plant data provider as ee.String',
      ee.String(fc.get('provider')));

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)

# A global power plant FeatureCollection.
fc = ee.FeatureCollection('WRI/GPPD/power_plants')

# View a list of FeatureCollection property names.
display(fc.propertyNames())

# Get the value of a listed property.
display('Global power plant data provider as ee.ComputedObject:',
        fc.get('provider'))

# The returned value is an ee.ComputedObject which has no methods available for
# further processing; cast to the relevant Earth Engine object class for use.
display('Global power plant data provider as ee.String:',
        ee.String(fc.get('provider')))