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Visualizes an image in RGB or grayscale by adjusting gain, bias, min/max values, and gamma correction for specified or default bands.
Accepts single values or lists for gain, bias, min, max, and gamma to apply to all or individual bands, respectively.
Offers customization options including opacity, a color palette for multi-band visualization, and forced RGB output.
Uses a list of CSS color identifiers or hexadecimal color strings for the palette parameter when visualizing multi-band images.
Operates on an input image and returns a modified image with the specified visualization parameters applied.
Produces an RGB or grayscale visualization of an image. Each of the gain, bias, min, max and gamma arguments can take either a single value, which will be applied to all bands, or a list of values the same length as bands.
Usage
Returns
Image.visualize(bands, gain, bias, min, max, gamma, opacity, palette, forceRgbOutput)
Image
Argument
Type
Details
this: image
Image
The image to visualize.
bands
Object, default: null
A list of the bands to visualize. If empty, the first 3 are used.
gain
Object, default: null
The visualization gain(s) to use.
bias
Object, default: null
The visualization bias(es) to use.
min
Object, default: null
The value(s) to map to RGB8 value 0.
max
Object, default: null
The value(s) to map to RGB8 value 255.
gamma
Object, default: null
The gamma correction factor(s) to use.
opacity
Number, default: null
The opacity scaling factor to use.
palette
Object, default: null
The color palette to use. List of CSS color identifiers or hexadecimal color strings (e.g., ['red', '00FF00', 'blueviolet']).
forceRgbOutput
Boolean, default: false
Whether to produce RGB output even for single-band inputs.
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