Can't display properly filtered Region of Interest on Google Earth Engine Map

Question

I am trying to display a ROI (region of interest) on the GEE map. I am getting pretty odd outputs like this:

Code that generated this image is down below:

var geometry = /* color: #d63000 */ee.Geometry.Polygon(
    [[[-74.17301042227143, 41.01676815108097],
      [-75.15079362539643, 40.93797200093739],
      [-74.50260026602143, 40.3084072747414],
      [-73.63468034414643, 40.559275861105796]]]);

var landsat = ee.ImageCollection("LANDSAT/LC08/C01/T1_TOA")

Map.centerObject(geometry)

var area = ee.FeatureCollection(geometry);

var image = ee.Image((landsat)
    .filterBounds(area)
    .filterDate('2018-01-01', '2018-12-31')
    .select(['B[1-7]'])
    .sort('CLOUD_COVER')
    .first());
var filteredimage = image
//.clip(area)
Map.addLayer(filteredimage, {bands: ['B4', 'B3', 'B2'], max: 0.5, gamma: 2}, 'Better L8 Image');

If I uncomment the .clip(area) line, I get only the intersection of these two chunks. But what I want is to show only the red section. And show all of it. From what I understand is the these square pictures are the raw pictures of the satellite. But how can I crop an image out of two or more different satellite images?

Answer 1

By using .first(), you are asking for only the first (here, least cloudy) image from the LANDSAT/LC08/C01/T1_TOA that matches your other filters. Generally, when you want images from an area, you should use an operator like .mosaic() (prefer the last available image, but on a pixel-by-pixel basis — useful when sorted by date) or .median() (take the median of all images).

Map.centerObject(geometry);

var image = ee.Image((landsat)
    .filterBounds(geometry)
    .filterDate('2018-01-01', '2018-12-31')
    .sort('CLOUD_COVER')
    .median());
var filteredimage = image.clip(geometry);
Map.addLayer(filteredimage, {bands: ['B4', 'B3', 'B2'], max: 0.5, gamma: 2}, 'Better L8 Image');

https://code.earthengine.google.com/c1f26be1cc2581247f4265894751e7a4

I've also simplified your code a couple of ways:

• There is no need for var area = ee.FeatureCollection(geometry); — none of what you're doing requires a collection.
• There is no need for .select(['B[1-7]']) — the band selection you are doing in addLayer suffices to control which pixels get computed, so the .select() is redundant.