ee.ImageCollection.set

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• The set method overrides one or more metadata properties of an Element and returns the element with the specified properties overridden.

• The set method can take either a dictionary of properties or a sequence of key-value pairs as arguments.

• Examples demonstrate how to use the set method to set properties on an ee.ImageCollection using both a dictionary and key-value pairs in both JavaScript and Python.

• The examples also show how to retrieve the set properties using methods like toDictionary, get, getString, getNumber, and getArray.

Overrides one or more metadata properties of an Element.

Returns the element with the specified properties overridden.

Usage	Returns
ImageCollection.set(var_args)	Element

Argument	Type	Details
this: element	Element	The Element instance.
var_args	VarArgs<Object>	Either a dictionary of properties, or a vararg sequence of properties, e.g. key1, value1, key2, value2, ...

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

// A contrived, empty image collection for simple demonstration.
var col = ee.ImageCollection([]);
print('Collection without properties', col);

// Set collection properties using a dictionary.
col = col.set({
  project_name: 'biomass_tracking',
  project_id: 3,
  plot_ids: ee.Array([7, 11, 20])
});

// Set collection properties using a series of key-value pairs.
col = col.set('project_year', 2018,
              'rgb_vis', 'false_color');

print('Collection with properties', col);

// Get a dictionary of collection property keys and values.
print('Property keys and values (ee.Dictionary)', col.toDictionary());

// Get the value of a collection property. To use the result of
// ee.ImageCollection.get in further computation, you need to cast it to the
// appropriate class, for example, ee.Number(result) or ee.String(result).
print('Project ID (ambiguous object)', col.get('project_id'));

// Get the value of a string collection property as an ee.String object.
print('Project name (ee.String)', col.getString('project_name'));

// Get the value of a numeric collection property as an ee.Number object.
print('Project year (ee.Number)', col.getNumber('project_year'));

// Get the value of an ee.Array collection property as an ee.Array object.
print('Plot IDs (ee.Array)', col.getArray('plot_ids'));

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 contrived, empty image collection for simple demonstration.
col = ee.ImageCollection([])
print('Collection without properties:', col.getInfo())

# Set collection properties using a dictionary.
col = col.set({
    'project_name': 'biomass_tracking',
    'project_id': 3,
    'plot_ids': ee.Array([7, 11, 20])
})

# Set collection properties using a series of key-value pairs.
col = col.set('project_year', 2018,
              'rgb_vis', 'false_color')

print('Collection with properties:', col.getInfo())

# Get a dictionary of collection property keys and values.
print('Property keys and values (ee.Dictionary):', col.toDictionary().getInfo())

# Get the value of a collection property. To use the result of
# ee.ImageCollection.get in further computation, you need to cast it to the
# appropriate class, for example, ee.Number(result) or ee.String(result).
print('Project ID (ambiguous object):', col.get('project_id').getInfo())

# Get the value of a string collection property as an ee.String object.
print('Project name (ee.String):', col.getString('project_name').getInfo())

# Get the value of a numeric collection property as an ee.Number object.
print('Project year (ee.Number):', col.getNumber('project_year').getInfo())

# Get the value of an ee.Array collection property as an ee.Array object.
print('Plot IDs (ee.Array):', col.getArray('plot_ids').getInfo())