ee.FeatureCollection.getString

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• You can extract a property from a feature using FeatureCollection.getString(property).

• This method takes the feature object and the property name as arguments.

• It returns the value of the specified property as a String.

• Examples are provided in both JavaScript and Python to demonstrate usage.

Extract a property from a feature.

Usage	Returns
FeatureCollection.getString(property)	String

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 string property value.
var fc = ee.FeatureCollection([]).set('string_property', 'Abies magnifica');

// Fetch the string property value as an ee.String object.
print('String property value as ee.String', fc.getString('string_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 string property value.
fc = ee.FeatureCollection([]).set('string_property', 'Abies magnifica')

# Fetch the string property value as an ee.String object.
print('String property value as ee.String:',
      fc.getString('string_property').getInfo())