Google Earth comes loaded with plenty of cool features, including a timelapse tool that can show you how our planet has changed.
Alphabet’s Google Earth is one of the handiest tools to exist in our time. Google Earth can show you how your hometown has changed in recent years
The service uses satellite imaging to let you explore all corners of the world – some in 3D – from your computer. And as of last April, users can now access a clever timelapse feature that shows how their neighbourhood has changed over the last 37 years. Googler sourced more than 24 million satellite photos taken over four decades for the tool.
This feature aims to show “not just problems but also solutions,” per a Google blog post.
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Rebecca Moore, the director of Google Earth, further noted that the Google Earth’s timelapse tool can also display “mesmerizingly beautiful natural phenomena that unfold over decades”. The tech giant has plans to add new images to the project continuously over the next decade.
Google is working closely with Nasa, the US Geological Survey’s Landsat program, and the European Union’s Copernicus program on the project. Meanwhile, the timelapse feature is being powered by Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab.
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