ee.FeatureCollection.getNumber

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• Learn how to extract a numerical property from a FeatureCollection using the getNumber method.

• The getNumber method takes the property name as a string and returns an ee.Number object in JavaScript or requires .getInfo() in Python for a standard number.

• Examples in both JavaScript and Python demonstrate how to apply getNumber to retrieve a specific number property from a FeatureCollection.

Extract a property from a feature.

Usage	Returns
FeatureCollection.getNumber(property)	Number

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

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

// A FeatureCollection with a number property value.
var fc = ee.FeatureCollection([]).set('number_property', 1.5);

// Fetch the number property value as an ee.Number object.
print('Number property value as ee.Number', fc.getNumber('number_property'));

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 FeatureCollection with a number property value.
fc = ee.FeatureCollection([]).set('number_property', 1.5)

# Fetch the number property value as an ee.Number object.
print('Number property value as ee.Number:',
      fc.getNumber('number_property').getInfo())