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Casts some or all bands of each image in an ImageCollection to the specified types.
Usage
Returns
ImageCollection.cast(bandTypes, bandOrder)
ImageCollection
Argument
Type
Details
this:collection
ImageCollection
The image collection to cast.
bandTypes
Dictionary
A dictionary from band name to band types. Types can be PixelTypes or strings. The valid strings are: 'int8', 'int16', 'int32', 'int64', 'uint8', 'uint16', 'uint32', 'byte', 'short', 'int', 'long', 'float', and 'double'. Must include all bands already in any image in the collection. If this includes bands that are not already in an input image, they will be added to the image as transparent bands.
bandOrder
List
A list specifying the order of the bands in the result. Must match the keys of bandTypes.
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