ee.Image.classify

Classifies an image.

UsageReturns
Image.classify(classifier, outputName)Image
ArgumentTypeDetails
this: imageImageThe image to classify. Bands are extracted from this image by name and it must contain all the bands named in the classifier's schema.
classifierClassifierThe classifier to use.
outputNameString, default: "classification"The name of the band to be added. If the classifier produces more than 1 output, this name is ignored.

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

// A Sentinel-2 surface reflectance image, reflectance bands selected,
// serves as the source for training and prediction in this contrived example.
var img = ee.Image('COPERNICUS/S2_SR/20210109T185751_20210109T185931_T10SEG')
              .select('B.*');

// ESA WorldCover land cover map, used as label source in classifier training.
var lc = ee.Image('ESA/WorldCover/v100/2020');

// Remap the land cover class values to a 0-based sequential series.
var classValues = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 95, 100];
var remapValues = ee.List.sequence(0, 10);
var label = 'lc';
lc = lc.remap(classValues, remapValues).rename(label).toByte();

// Add land cover as a band of the reflectance image and sample 100 pixels at
// 10 m scale from each land cover class within a region of interest.
var roi = ee.Geometry.Rectangle(-122.347, 37.743, -122.024, 37.838);
var sample = img.addBands(lc).stratifiedSample({
  numPoints: 100,
  classBand: label,
  region: roi,
  scale: 10,
  geometries: true
});

// Add a random value field to the sample and use it to approximately split 80%
// of the features into a training set and 20% into a validation set.
sample = sample.randomColumn();
var trainingSample = sample.filter('random <= 0.8');
var validationSample = sample.filter('random > 0.8');

// Train a 10-tree random forest classifier from the training sample.
var trainedClassifier = ee.Classifier.smileRandomForest(10).train({
  features: trainingSample,
  classProperty: label,
  inputProperties: img.bandNames()
});

// Get information about the trained classifier.
print('Results of trained classifier', trainedClassifier.explain());

// Get a confusion matrix and overall accuracy for the training sample.
var trainAccuracy = trainedClassifier.confusionMatrix();
print('Training error matrix', trainAccuracy);
print('Training overall accuracy', trainAccuracy.accuracy());

// Get a confusion matrix and overall accuracy for the validation sample.
validationSample = validationSample.classify(trainedClassifier);
var validationAccuracy = validationSample.errorMatrix(label, 'classification');
print('Validation error matrix', validationAccuracy);
print('Validation accuracy', validationAccuracy.accuracy());

// Classify the reflectance image from the trained classifier.
var imgClassified = img.classify(trainedClassifier);

// Add the layers to the map.
var classVis = {
  min: 0,
  max: 10,
  palette: ['006400' ,'ffbb22', 'ffff4c', 'f096ff', 'fa0000', 'b4b4b4',
            'f0f0f0', '0064c8', '0096a0', '00cf75', 'fae6a0']
};
Map.setCenter(-122.184, 37.796, 12);
Map.addLayer(img, {bands: ['B11', 'B8', 'B3'], min: 100, max: 3500}, 'img');
Map.addLayer(lc, classVis, 'lc');
Map.addLayer(imgClassified, classVis, 'Classified');
Map.addLayer(roi, {color: 'white'}, 'ROI', false, 0.5);
Map.addLayer(trainingSample, {color: 'black'}, 'Training sample', false);
Map.addLayer(validationSample, {color: 'white'}, 'Validation sample', false);

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 Sentinel-2 surface reflectance image, reflectance bands selected,
# serves as the source for training and prediction in this contrived example.
img = ee.Image(
    'COPERNICUS/S2_SR/20210109T185751_20210109T185931_T10SEG'
).select('B.*')

# ESA WorldCover land cover map, used as label source in classifier training.
lc = ee.Image('ESA/WorldCover/v100/2020')

# Remap the land cover class values to a 0-based sequential series.
class_values = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 95, 100]
remap_values = ee.List.sequence(0, 10)
label = 'lc'
lc = lc.remap(class_values, remap_values).rename(label).toByte()

# Add land cover as a band of the reflectance image and sample 100 pixels at
# 10 m scale from each land cover class within a region of interest.
roi = ee.Geometry.Rectangle(-122.347, 37.743, -122.024, 37.838)
sample = img.addBands(lc).stratifiedSample(
    numPoints=100, classBand=label, region=roi, scale=10, geometries=True
)

# Add a random value field to the sample and use it to approximately split 80%
# of the features into a training set and 20% into a validation set.
sample = sample.randomColumn()
training_sample = sample.filter('random <= 0.8')
validation_sample = sample.filter('random > 0.8')

# Train a 10-tree random forest classifier from the training sample.
trained_classifier = ee.Classifier.smileRandomForest(10).train(
    features=training_sample,
    classProperty=label,
    inputProperties=img.bandNames(),
)

# Get information about the trained classifier.
display('Results of trained classifier', trained_classifier.explain())

# Get a confusion matrix and overall accuracy for the training sample.
train_accuracy = trained_classifier.confusionMatrix()
display('Training error matrix', train_accuracy)
display('Training overall accuracy', train_accuracy.accuracy())

# Get a confusion matrix and overall accuracy for the validation sample.
validation_sample = validation_sample.classify(trained_classifier)
validation_accuracy = validation_sample.errorMatrix(label, 'classification')
display('Validation error matrix', validation_accuracy)
display('Validation accuracy', validation_accuracy.accuracy())

# Classify the reflectance image from the trained classifier.
img_classified = img.classify(trained_classifier)

# Add the layers to the map.
class_vis = {
    'min': 0,
    'max': 10,
    'palette': [
        '006400',
        'ffbb22',
        'ffff4c',
        'f096ff',
        'fa0000',
        'b4b4b4',
        'f0f0f0',
        '0064c8',
        '0096a0',
        '00cf75',
        'fae6a0',
    ],
}
m = geemap.Map()
m.set_center(-122.184, 37.796, 12)
m.add_layer(
    img, {'bands': ['B11', 'B8', 'B3'], 'min': 100, 'max': 3500}, 'img'
)
m.add_layer(lc, class_vis, 'lc')
m.add_layer(img_classified, class_vis, 'Classified')
m.add_layer(roi, {'color': 'white'}, 'ROI', False, 0.5)
m.add_layer(training_sample, {'color': 'black'}, 'Training sample', False)
m.add_layer(
    validation_sample, {'color': 'white'}, 'Validation sample', False
)
m