Google Earth's Timelapse feature unfolds decades of planetary change in min
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has
announced that a 'Timelapse' feature has been introduced in Google Earth, the
biggest update since 2017, which will make anyone watch time unfold and witness
nearly four decades of planetary change.
For this Google has compiled
24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years into an interactive,
explorable 4D experience.
Our planet has seen rapid environmental change in the past
half-century -- more than any other point in human history. The new Timelapse
feature in Google
Earth compiles 24 million satellite photos from the past 37
years into an interactive 4D experience, Pichai said on Thursday.
For the first time, we'll put a vivid depiction of our rapidly
changing planet into the hands of everyone, everywhere, Rebecca Moore director
of Google Earth, Earth Engine, and outreach told reporters during a news
conference.
Now in the biggest update to Google Earth, since 2017, people will
be able to see our planet in an entirely new dimension, she said.
Timelapse in Google Earth is
really a big leap forward. Because now our one static snapshot of the planet
has become dynamic providing ongoing visual evidence of Earth's changes from
the climate and human behaviour occurring across space and time over four
decades, Moore said.
Timelapse, she said, was made possible because of the US
government and European Union commitments to open and accessible data. These
images were provided by NASA, US Geological Survey, European Commission, and
the European Space Agency, she said.
Responding to a question, Moore said that Google is open to
exploring similar collaboration with ISRO.
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