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ee.FeatureCollection.sort
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Sort a collection by the specified property.
Returns the sorted collection.
| Usage | Returns | FeatureCollection.sort(property, ascending) | Collection |
| Argument | Type | Details | this: collection | Collection | The Collection instance. |
property | String | The property to sort by. |
ascending | Boolean, optional | Whether to sort in ascending or descending order. The default is true (ascending). |
Examples
Code Editor (JavaScript)
// FeatureCollection of power plants in Belgium.
var fc = ee.FeatureCollection('WRI/GPPD/power_plants')
.filter('country_lg == "Belgium"');
print('Belgium power plants in ascending order by capacity',
fc.sort('capacitymw'));
print('Belgium power plants in descending order by capacity',
fc.sort('capacitymw', false));
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)
# FeatureCollection of power plants in Belgium.
fc = ee.FeatureCollection('WRI/GPPD/power_plants').filter(
'country_lg == "Belgium"')
print('Belgium power plants in ascending order by capacity:',
fc.sort('capacitymw').getInfo())
print('Belgium power plants in descending order by capacity:',
fc.sort('capacitymw', False).getInfo())
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Last updated 2023-10-06 UTC.
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