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ee.Image.uint16
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Casts the input value to an unsigned 16-bit integer.
| Usage | Returns | Image.uint16() | Image |
| Argument | Type | Details | this: value | Image | The image to which the operation is applied. |
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Last updated 2023-10-06 UTC.
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