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ee.ImageCollection.getInfo
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An imperative function that returns all the known information about this collection via an AJAX call.
Returns a collection description whose fields include:
- features: a list containing metadata about the images in the collection.
- bands: a dictionary describing the bands of the images in this collection.
- properties: an optional dictionary containing the collection's metadata properties.
| Usage | Returns | ImageCollection.getInfo(callback) | ImageCollectionDescription |
| Argument | Type | Details | this: imagecollection | ImageCollection | The ImageCollection instance. |
callback | Function, optional | An optional callback. If not supplied, the call is made synchronously. If supplied, will be called with the first parameter if successful and the second if unsuccessful. |
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Last updated 2023-10-06 UTC.
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