GEE - Add image band (NDVI) from one ImageCollection to corresponding image in an other ImageCollection

Question

I have two ImageCollections one from Sentinel-1 and the other from Sentinel-2. From S-2 i derive the NDVI. I want to add the NDVI band from the S2 Collection to the Sentinel-1 ImageCollection with the closest date. How can i do this?

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Answer 1

There are several ways to achive that. I would do that like this:

// map over the sentinel 1 collection
var appendNDViband = s1_grd_iw_vv_des.map(function(image){
  var dateS1 = ee.Number(image.get('system:time_start'));
  // map over the sentinel 2 collection 
  var appendAbsDifference = s2_cf_ndvi.select('NDVI').map(function(image){
    var dateS2 = ee.Number(image.get('system:time_start'));
    return image.set('absDifference', dateS2.subtract(dateS1).abs());
  });
  // calculate the image with the least absolute time difference
  var minDifference = appendAbsDifference.sort('absDifference').first();
  return image.addBands(minDifference)
              .set('propsS2', minDifference.toDictionary(minDifference.propertyNames().add('system:time_start')));
});

print('Sentinel-1 with NDVI band', appendNDViband);

Note that there will be differences in geometry and projection you will run into. Moreover, Sentinel 2 images are divided into MGRS tiles, you probably want to merge following this example.

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