ee.ImageCollection.aggregate_count_distinct

Aggregates over a given property of the objects in a collection, calculating the number of distinct values for the selected property.

Usage	Returns
ImageCollection.aggregate_count_distinct(property)	Number

Argument	Type	Details
this: collection	FeatureCollection	The collection to aggregate over.
property	String	The property to use from each element of the collection.

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

// A Lansat 8 TOA image collection for a specific year and location.
var col = ee.ImageCollection("LANDSAT/LC08/C02/T1_TOA")
  .filterBounds(ee.Geometry.Point([-122.073, 37.188]))
  .filterDate('2018', '2019');

// An image property of interest, percent cloud cover in this case.
var prop = 'CLOUD_COVER';

// Use ee.ImageCollection.aggregate_* functions to fetch information about
// values of a selected property across all images in the collection. For
// example, produce a list of all values, get counts, and calculate statistics.
print('List of property values', col.aggregate_array(prop));
print('Count of property values', col.aggregate_count(prop));
print('Count of distinct property values', col.aggregate_count_distinct(prop));
print('First collection element property value', col.aggregate_first(prop));
print('Histogram of property values', col.aggregate_histogram(prop));
print('Min of property values', col.aggregate_min(prop));
print('Max of property values', col.aggregate_max(prop));

// The following methods are applicable to numerical properties only.
print('Mean of property values', col.aggregate_mean(prop));
print('Sum of property values', col.aggregate_sum(prop));
print('Product of property values', col.aggregate_product(prop));
print('Std dev (sample) of property values', col.aggregate_sample_sd(prop));
print('Variance (sample) of property values', col.aggregate_sample_var(prop));
print('Std dev (total) of property values', col.aggregate_total_sd(prop));
print('Variance (total) of property values', col.aggregate_total_var(prop));
print('Summary stats of property values', col.aggregate_stats(prop));

// Note that if the property is formatted as a string, min and max will
// respectively return the first and last values according to alphanumeric
// order of the property values.
var propString = 'LANDSAT_SCENE_ID';
print('List of property values (string)', col.aggregate_array(propString));
print('Min of property values (string)', col.aggregate_min(propString));
print('Max of property values (string)', col.aggregate_max(propString));

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)

from pprint import pprint

# A Lansat 8 TOA image collection for a specific year and location.
col = ee.ImageCollection("LANDSAT/LC08/C02/T1_TOA").filterBounds(
    ee.Geometry.Point([-122.073, 37.188])).filterDate('2018', '2019')

# An image property of interest, percent cloud cover in this case.
prop = 'CLOUD_COVER'

# Use ee.ImageCollection.aggregate_* functions to fetch information about
# values of a selected property across all images in the collection. For
# example, produce a list of all values, get counts, and calculate statistics.
print('List of property values:', col.aggregate_array(prop).getInfo())
print('Count of property values:', col.aggregate_count(prop).getInfo())
print('Count of distinct property values:',
      col.aggregate_count_distinct(prop).getInfo())
print('First collection element property value:',
      col.aggregate_first(prop).getInfo())
print('Histogram of property values:')
pprint(col.aggregate_histogram(prop).getInfo())
print('Min of property values:', col.aggregate_min(prop).getInfo())
print('Max of property values:', col.aggregate_max(prop).getInfo())

# The following methods are applicable to numerical properties only.
print('Mean of property values:', col.aggregate_mean(prop).getInfo())
print('Sum of property values:', col.aggregate_sum(prop).getInfo())
print('Product of property values:', col.aggregate_product(prop).getInfo())
print('Std dev (sample) of property values:',
      col.aggregate_sample_sd(prop).getInfo())
print('Variance (sample) of property values:',
      col.aggregate_sample_var(prop).getInfo())
print('Std dev (total) of property values:',
      col.aggregate_total_sd(prop).getInfo())
print('Variance (total) of property values:',
      col.aggregate_total_var(prop).getInfo())
print('Summary stats of property values:')
pprint(col.aggregate_stats(prop).getInfo())

# Note that if the property is formatted as a string, min and max will
# respectively return the first and last values according to alphanumeric
# order of the property values.
prop_string = 'LANDSAT_SCENE_ID'
print('List of property values (string):',
      col.aggregate_array(prop_string).getInfo())
print('Min of property values (string):',
      col.aggregate_min(prop_string).getInfo())
print('Max of property values (string):',
      col.aggregate_max(prop_string).getInfo())