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Pads the array values in each pixel to be a fixed length. The pad value will be appended to each array to extend it to given length along each axis. All bands of the image must be array-valued and have the same dimensions.
Usage
Returns
Image.arrayPad(lengths,pad)
Image
Argument
Type
Details
this:image
Image
Array image to pad.
lengths
List
A list of desired lengths for each axis in the output arrays. Arrays are already as large or larger than the given length will be unchanged along that axis.
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