ee.Image.classify

Classifies an image.

Usage	Returns
Image.classify(classifier, outputName)	Image

Argument	Type	Details
this: image	Image	The image to classify. Bands are extracted from this image by name and it must contain all the bands named in the classifier's schema.
classifier	Classifier	The classifier to use.
outputName	String, 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