Returns the position, as a list of indices in each array axis, of the maximum value in an array, or null if the array is empty. If there are multiple occurrences of the maximum, returns the position of the first.
| Usage | Returns | Array.argmax() | List |
| Argument | Type | Details | this: array | Array | |
Examples
Code Editor (JavaScript)
// Return the position of the maximum value in each dimension.
// Returns null if the array is empty.
print(ee.Array([], ee.PixelType.int8()).argmax()); // null
print(ee.Array([9]).argmax()); // [0]
print(ee.Array([0, -1, 2, 1]).argmax()); // [2]
print(ee.Array([[3, 4, 2], [6, 5, 7]]).argmax()); // [1, 2]
// Returns the first occurrence of the maximum.
print(ee.Array([1, 1, 1, 9, 9, 9]).argmax()); // [3]
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)
# Return the position of the maximum value in each dimension.
# Returns null if the array is empty.
display(ee.Array([], ee.PixelType.int8()).argmax()) # None
display(ee.Array([9]).argmax()) # [0]
display(ee.Array([0, -1, 2, 1]).argmax()) # [2]
display(ee.Array([[3, 4, 2], [6, 5, 7]]).argmax()) # [1, 2]
# Returns the first occurrence of the maximum.
display(ee.Array([1, 1, 1, 9, 9, 9]).argmax()) # [3]