Learn Alone Clear Skies On Google Maps As Well As Earth
To celebrate the sunny days of summertime (in the northern hemisphere at least), today we're launching novel satellite imagery for Google’s mapping products. This stunning global sentiment is virtually cloud-free in addition to includes refreshed imagery inwards to a greater extent than locations—giving yous an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than accurate in addition to comprehensive sentiment of our planet's landscape.
Our satellite imagery is commonly created similar a quilt: nosotros sew together together imagery of dissimilar parts of the world. Using a procedure similar to how nosotros produced the global time-lapse imagery of the Earth, nosotros took hundreds of terabytes of information from the USGS's in addition to NASA’s Landsat vii satellite—sometimes dozens of photos of a unmarried spot inwards the world—and analyzed the photos to compute a clear sentiment of every place, fifty-fifty inwards tropical regions that are e'er at to the lowest degree partly cloudy.
The lawsuit is a single, beautiful 800,000 megapixel icon of the world, which tin endure viewed inwards populace in addition to Maps when you're zoomed out to a global view. This global icon is thence big, if yous wanted to impress it at a criterion resolution of 300 dots per inch you’d postulate a slice of newspaper the size of a metropolis block! This icon is in addition to thence blended into our highest resolution imagery, giving a beautiful cloud-free global sentiment in addition to detailed images inwards the same seamless map.
This update also includes refreshed imagery inwards many regions of the world, peculiarly inwards areas where high-resolution imagery is non available, including parts of Russia, Republic of Indonesia in addition to key Africa.
You tin encounter the novel satellite imagery past times going to Google Maps in addition to turning on satellite view, or past times opening Google Earth, in addition to zooming out. And to read to a greater extent than most what went into creating this imagery, banking concern fit out our detailed postal service on the Lat Long blog. Have fun exploring!
The new, fifty-fifty to a greater extent than beautiful global sentiment inwards Maps in addition to Earth.
Our satellite imagery is commonly created similar a quilt: nosotros sew together together imagery of dissimilar parts of the world. Using a procedure similar to how nosotros produced the global time-lapse imagery of the Earth, nosotros took hundreds of terabytes of information from the USGS's in addition to NASA’s Landsat vii satellite—sometimes dozens of photos of a unmarried spot inwards the world—and analyzed the photos to compute a clear sentiment of every place, fifty-fifty inwards tropical regions that are e'er at to the lowest degree partly cloudy.
The lawsuit is a single, beautiful 800,000 megapixel icon of the world, which tin endure viewed inwards populace in addition to Maps when you're zoomed out to a global view. This global icon is thence big, if yous wanted to impress it at a criterion resolution of 300 dots per inch you’d postulate a slice of newspaper the size of a metropolis block! This icon is in addition to thence blended into our highest resolution imagery, giving a beautiful cloud-free global sentiment in addition to detailed images inwards the same seamless map.
Central Papua, Indonesia: earlier in addition to after.
This update also includes refreshed imagery inwards many regions of the world, peculiarly inwards areas where high-resolution imagery is non available, including parts of Russia, Republic of Indonesia in addition to key Africa.
Saudi Arabia: earlier in addition to after, showing increased agricultural expansion
You tin encounter the novel satellite imagery past times going to Google Maps in addition to turning on satellite view, or past times opening Google Earth, in addition to zooming out. And to read to a greater extent than most what went into creating this imagery, banking concern fit out our detailed postal service on the Lat Long blog. Have fun exploring!