Google Earth’s Timelapse service has been updated with new images for 2021 and 2022. It tracks roughly four decades of changes to our planet’s surface, starting in 1984 and ending in 2022.
The update with new images for 2021 and 2022 of the Google Earth Timelapse service, which allows us to see how the Earth changes over time, Google announced.
Google Earth’s Timelapse service has been updated with new images for 2021 and 2022. It tracks nearly four decades of changes to our planet’s surface, starting in 1984 and ending in 2022 – all thanks to Google’s 4D interactive map, consisting of millions of satellite images.
As mentioned, GoogleEarth Timelapse is a time-lapse video of the entire planet, showing evidence of the big changes happening – from irrigation systems appearing in the desert of Egypt, rivers shifting over time in the tropics Amazon forest in Pucallpa, Peru, to volcanic eruptions, and how deforestation and fires are gradually changing the landscape of Lassen National Forest in California. Through the platform, we also see how cities adapt to the needs of combating climate change – for example with the offshore wind installations in Middelgrunden, Denmark, or the large-scale solar installation in Granada, Spain. The platform has an archive of 800 Timelapse videos for more than 300 regions of the world. The file is available here http://g.co/TimelapseVideos.
Professors, researchers and everyday users can use Timelapse videos to better understand the changes on our planet. Those interested can, for example, see how Thessaloniki has changed in the last 35 years.
Such data was used on many occasions, such as in the 2022 documentary “The Territory”, which showed in Timelapse the tragic consequences of deforestation in the Amazon and its impact on local communities.
Google’s Timelapse is a reality thanks to a commitment to an open and accessible database by NASA and the United States Geological Survey’s Landsat program (the first and longest-running non-academic Earth observation program), as well as the Copernicus program by European Union and the Sentinel satellites.
Those interested can visit g.co/timelapse to see the new images added to Google Earth, as well as the footage posted to YouTube g.co/timelapsevideos.
Source :Skai
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