ee.Geometry.Rectangle.bounds

  • The bounds() method returns the bounding rectangle of a geometry, essentially the smallest rectangle that fully encloses the geometry.

  • It can be applied to any geometry object in Earth Engine and optionally accepts maxError for reprojection tolerance and proj to specify the output projection.

  • If no projection is specified, the bounding rectangle is returned in the default projection, EPSG:4326.

  • The examples demonstrate using bounds() on a rectangle geometry, visualizing both the original rectangle and its calculated bounds on a map.

 Returns the bounding rectangle of the geometry.

UsageReturns
Rectangle.bounds(maxError, proj)Geometry
ArgumentTypeDetails
this: geometryGeometryReturn the bounding box of this geometry.
maxErrorErrorMargin, default: nullThe maximum amount of error tolerated when performing any necessary reprojection.
projProjection, default: nullIf specified, the result will be in this projection. Otherwise it will be in EPSG:4326.

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

// Define a Rectangle object.
var rectangle = ee.Geometry.Rectangle(-122.09, 37.42, -122.08, 37.43);

// Apply the bounds method to the Rectangle object.
var rectangleBounds = rectangle.bounds();

// Print the result to the console.
print('rectangle.bounds(...) =', rectangleBounds);

// Display relevant geometries on the map.
Map.setCenter(-122.085, 37.422, 15);
Map.addLayer(rectangle,
             {'color': 'black'},
             'Geometry [black]: rectangle');
Map.addLayer(rectangleBounds,
             {'color': 'red'},
             'Result [red]: rectangle.bounds');

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)

# Define a Rectangle object.
rectangle = ee.Geometry.Rectangle(-122.09, 37.42, -122.08, 37.43)

# Apply the bounds method to the Rectangle object.
rectangle_bounds = rectangle.bounds()

# Print the result.
display('rectangle.bounds(...) =', rectangle_bounds)

# Display relevant geometries on the map.
m = geemap.Map()
m.set_center(-122.085, 37.422, 15)
m.add_layer(rectangle, {'color': 'black'}, 'Geometry [black]: rectangle')
m.add_layer(
    rectangle_bounds, {'color': 'red'}, 'Result [red]: rectangle.bounds'
)
m