Remove Images from Image Collection in Google Earth Engine?

Question

In the below code, I'm going to remove some images from image collection by if condition in .map() instead of filter.neq(), what should I do for this purpose?

Map.centerObject(table);
Map.addLayer(table);

var s2 = ee.ImageCollection("COPERNICUS/S2")
.filterBounds(table)
.filterDate('2016-01-01','2020-01-01')
.filter(ee.Filter.lessThan('CLOUDY_PIXEL_PERCENTAGE',45))
.filter(ee.Filter.eq('system:index','20170910T071621_20170910T073037_T39SUR').not())
.filter(ee.Filter.eq('system:index','20180518T071621_20180518T071934_T39SUR').not());


print(s2);

code link: https://code.earthengine.google.com/7dc1cf120153095b7f48c133015398ca

Answer 1

In almost all cases, you are better off using filters. My understanding is that it's significantly more efficient. But if you really need to, you can filter out an element in map() by returning null and setting the dropNulls argument to true.

ee.ImageCollection("COPERNICUS/S2")
  .filterBounds(table)
  .filterDate('2016-01-01','2020-01-01')
  .map(function (image) {
    var index = image.getString('system:index')
    var include = image.getNumber('CLOUDY_PIXEL_PERCENTAGE').lt(45)
      .and(index.match('20170910T071621_20170910T073037_T39SUR').size().eq(0))
      .and(index.match('20180518T071621_20180518T071934_T39SUR').size().eq(0))
    return ee.Algorithms.If(include, image, null)
  }, true)

https://code.earthengine.google.com/20db63310dc07ee66257e0c7de932e0c