A list of names, regexes or numeric indices specifying the bands to select.
names
List, optional
A list of new names for the output bands. Must match the number of bands selected.
Examples
Code Editor (JavaScript)
// A Sentinel-2 surface reflectance image collection.
var col = ee.ImageCollection('COPERNICUS/S2_SR')
.filterBounds(ee.Geometry.Point(-122.152, 37.336))
.filterDate('2021-01-01', '2021-02-01');
print('All band names', col.first().bandNames());
print('Select a band by name',
col.select('B11').first().bandNames());
print('Select a band by index',
col.select(10).first().bandNames());
print('Select bands using a list',
col.select(['B11', 'B8', 'B3']).first().bandNames());
print('Select bands by an argument series',
col.select('B11', 'B8', 'B3').first().bandNames());
print('Mixing string and integer selectors is valid',
col.select(10, 'B8', 2).first().bandNames());
print('Rename selected bands using two corresponding lists',
col.select(['B11', 'B8', 'B3'], ['SWIR1', 'NIR', 'Green'])
.first().bandNames());
// Use regular expressions to select bands.
print('Match "QA" followed by any two characters',
col.select('QA..').first().bandNames());
print('Match "B" followed by any character, any number of times',
col.select('B.*').first().bandNames());
print('Match "B" followed by any character, and any optional third character',
col.select('B..?').first().bandNames());
print('Match "B" followed by a character in the range 6-8',
col.select('B[6-8]').first().bandNames());
print('Match "B" followed by a character in the range 1-9 and then 1-2',
col.select('B[1-9][1-2]').first().bandNames());
print('Match "B" or "QA" each followed by any character, any number of times.',
col.select('B.*|QA.*').first().bandNames());