Google Earth is already a powerful tool for observing our planet, but today it receives a major upgrade with the introduction of a new 3D timelapse feature.
Described by Google Earth director Rebecca Moore as the biggest Google Earth update of 2017, Timelapse in Google Earth combines over 24 million satellite photos, two petabytes of data and 2 million hours of processor processing to create a 4.4-interactive terapixel view showing how the Earth changed from 1984 to 2020.
While Google Earth had a simplistic timeoption before expiration, the new feature represents a major upgrade with full 3D coverage of the entire globe. Users can choose virtually any place on Earth, change the angles of the room and select a specific year they want to see.
You can access Timelapse in Google Earth simply by accessing it g.co/Timelapse or by tapping the Ship’s Wheel icon in Google Earth and selecting Timelapse, Google also provides more than 200 spot and guided tours to specific locations, such as Las Vegas, Kuwait City, and the Alaska Columbia Glacier. And if that’s not enough, Google has loaded more than 800 extra time-videos for public use Here, which can be downloaded for free or viewed on YouTube.
Google’s goal is to create a powerful and interactive way to see our world change over time like this people will have a closeness understanding the type of impact people have and natural phenomena have on our planet. After all, it isIt’s a thing to hear about shrinking the rainforest or melting glaciers, but it’s a whole other thing to see. play in front of your eyes.
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Photos used in the new time of Google Earth-the declining feature comes through kindness NASA and Landsat at the USGS program and Copernicus of the European Union initiative, whose three satellites (Landsat-8, Sentinel 2a and Sentinel 2b) allow Google to get a recently updated picture of the world around 2.5 days.
However, while the US and EU satellites are some of the most sophisticated in the world, there are some limitations to Timelapse in Google Earth, especially when it comes to finer details. Instead of being like Street View in Google Maps, Timelapse in Google Earth was designed to show landscape-level changes that make tracking easier. it changes on a larger scale over time, instead of more granular things, such as building a single new road or a house.
To create models and composite images seen in Google Earth, Google teamed up with Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE lab to design algorithms that fuel its new timelapse feature.
In the future, Google says it hopes to update Timelapse in Google Earth once a year (or more often, if possible). And if the new time of Google Earth-the declining feature cannot convince people that climate change is real and that people have a massive impact on the environment, they are not sure what it will be.