ee.FeatureCollection.getString

  • You can extract a property from a feature using FeatureCollection.getString(property).

  • This method takes the feature object and the property name as arguments.

  • It returns the value of the specified property as a String.

  • Examples are provided in both JavaScript and Python to demonstrate usage.

 Extract a property from a feature.

UsageReturns
FeatureCollection.getString(property)String
ArgumentTypeDetails
this: objectElementThe feature to extract the property from.
propertyStringThe property to extract.

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

// A FeatureCollection with a string property value.
var fc = ee.FeatureCollection([]).set('string_property', 'Abies magnifica');

// Fetch the string property value as an ee.String object.
print('String property value as ee.String', fc.getString('string_property'));

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 FeatureCollection with a string property value.
fc = ee.FeatureCollection([]).set('string_property', 'Abies magnifica')

# Fetch the string property value as an ee.String object.
display('String property value as ee.String:',
        fc.getString('string_property'))