Objects and Methods

Objects

The Google Earth Engine API uses Object classes to represent data types like rasters, vectors, numbers or strings, and Methods to apply functions to the Objects.

Use the ee.Object.Method notation in the Code Editor, such as:

ee.Image.add

The common ones are shown below:

Methods

Methods are how users interact with the datasets (Objects). Each Object has it's own set of Methods, and all can be read up on and accessed from the API Reference Guide, or from the Code Editor Docs tab.

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