ee.Geometry.Polygon.perimeter

Page Summary

• The perimeter method returns the length of the perimeter of the polygonal parts of a geometry.

• For multi-geometries, the perimeter is the sum of the perimeters of their components.

• The method takes optional maxError and proj arguments to control the accuracy and output units.

• The result of the perimeter method is a Float.

Returns the length of the perimeter of the polygonal parts of the geometry. The perimeter of multi geometries is the sum of the perimeters of their components.

Usage	Returns
Polygon.perimeter(maxError, proj)	Float

Argument	Type	Details
this: geometry	Geometry	The input geometry.
maxError	ErrorMargin, default: null	The maximum amount of error tolerated when performing any necessary reprojection.
proj	Projection, default: null	If specified, the result will be in the units of the coordinate system of this projection. Otherwise it will be in meters.

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

// Define a Polygon object.
var polygon = ee.Geometry.Polygon(
    [[[-122.092, 37.424],
      [-122.086, 37.418],
      [-122.079, 37.425],
      [-122.085, 37.423]]]);

// Apply the perimeter method to the Polygon object.
var polygonPerimeter = polygon.perimeter({'maxError': 1});

// Print the result to the console.
print('polygon.perimeter(...) =', polygonPerimeter);

// Display relevant geometries on the map.
Map.setCenter(-122.085, 37.422, 15);
Map.addLayer(polygon,
             {'color': 'black'},
             'Geometry [black]: polygon');

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)

# Define a Polygon object.
polygon = ee.Geometry.Polygon([[
    [-122.092, 37.424],
    [-122.086, 37.418],
    [-122.079, 37.425],
    [-122.085, 37.423],
]])

# Apply the perimeter method to the Polygon object.
polygon_perimeter = polygon.perimeter(maxError=1)

# Print the result.
display('polygon.perimeter(...) =', polygon_perimeter)

# Display relevant geometries on the map.
m = geemap.Map()
m.set_center(-122.085, 37.422, 15)
m.add_layer(polygon, {'color': 'black'}, 'Geometry [black]: polygon')
m