ee.Image.pow

  • pow() raises the pixel values of the first image to the power of the corresponding pixel values in the second image.

  • It handles images with single or multiple bands, performing pairwise calculations.

  • Output band names and order prioritize the longer image input or the first image's order if lengths are equal.

  • Resulting image pixel values are of float type.

  • A numeric input for the second argument is automatically converted to an image for convenience.

 Raises the first value to the power of the second for each matched pair of bands in image1 and image2. If either image1 or image2 has only 1 band, then it is used against all the bands in the other image. If the images have the same number of bands, but not the same names, they're used pairwise in the natural order. The output bands are named for the longer of the two inputs, or if they're equal in length, in image1's order. The type of the output pixels is float.

UsageReturns
Image.pow(image2)Image
ArgumentTypeDetails
this: image1ImageThe image from which the left operand bands are taken.
image2ImageThe image from which the right operand bands are taken.

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

// A Sentinel-2 surface reflectance image.
var img = ee.Image('COPERNICUS/S2_SR/20210109T185751_20210109T185931_T10SEG');

// Subset two image bands and display them on the map.
var swir1 = img.select('B11');
var swir2 = img.select('B12');
Map.setCenter(-122.276, 37.456, 12);
Map.addLayer(swir1, {min: 0, max: 3000}, 'swir1');
Map.addLayer(swir2, {min: 0, max: 3000}, 'swir2');

// The following examples demonstrate ee.Image arithmetic methods using two
// single-band ee.Image inputs.
var addition = swir1.add(swir2);
Map.addLayer(addition, {min: 100, max: 6000}, 'addition');

var subtraction = swir1.subtract(swir2);
Map.addLayer(subtraction, {min: 0, max: 1500}, 'subtraction');

var multiplication = swir1.multiply(swir2);
Map.addLayer(multiplication, {min: 1.9e5, max: 9.4e6}, 'multiplication');

var division = swir1.divide(swir2);
Map.addLayer(division, {min: 0, max: 3}, 'division');

var remainder = swir1.mod(swir2);
Map.addLayer(remainder, {min: 0, max: 1500}, 'remainder');

// If a number input is provided as the second argument, it will automatically
// be promoted to an ee.Image object, a convenient shorthand for constants.
var exponent = swir1.pow(3);
Map.addLayer(exponent, {min: 0, max: 2e10}, 'exponent');

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)

# A Sentinel-2 surface reflectance image.
img = ee.Image('COPERNICUS/S2_SR/20210109T185751_20210109T185931_T10SEG')

# Subset two image bands and display them on the map.
swir_1 = img.select('B11')
swir_2 = img.select('B12')
m = geemap.Map()
m.set_center(-122.276, 37.456, 12)
m.add_layer(swir_1, {'min': 0, 'max': 3000}, 'swir_1')
m.add_layer(swir_2, {'min': 0, 'max': 3000}, 'swir_2')

# The following examples demonstrate ee.Image arithmetic methods using two
# single-band ee.Image inputs.
addition = swir_1.add(swir_2)
m.add_layer(addition, {'min': 100, 'max': 6000}, 'addition')

subtraction = swir_1.subtract(swir_2)
m.add_layer(subtraction, {'min': 0, 'max': 1500}, 'subtraction')

multiplication = swir_1.multiply(swir_2)
m.add_layer(multiplication, {'min': 1.9e5, 'max': 9.4e6}, 'multiplication')

division = swir_1.divide(swir_2)
m.add_layer(division, {'min': 0, 'max': 3}, 'division')

remainder = swir_1.mod(swir_2)
m.add_layer(remainder, {'min': 0, 'max': 1500}, 'remainder')

# If a number input is provided as the second argument, it will automatically
# be promoted to an ee.Image object, a convenient shorthand for constants.
exponent = swir_1.pow(3)
m.add_layer(exponent, {'min': 0, 'max': 2e10}, 'exponent')
m