To explore Timelapse in Google Earth, users can type any location into the search bar to see it in motion, whether it’s a landmark or the neighborhood in which they grew up. For the project, the company worked with NASA, the United States Geological Survey’s Landsat program - the world’s longest-running Earth observation program - the European Union’s Copernicus program and its Sentinel satellites, and Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab, which helped develop the technology behind Timelapse. Timelapse compiles 24 million satellite photos taken from 1984 to 2020, an effort Google said took two million processing hours across thousands of machines in Google Cloud. The tool takes the platform’s static imagery and turns it into a dynamic 4D experience, allowing users to click through timelapses that highlight melting ice caps, receding glaciers, massive urban growth and wildfires’ impact on agriculture. Google’s latest feature, Timelapse, is an eye opening, technical feat that provides visual evidence of how the Earth has changed due to climate change and human behavior. The result is a series of high-resolution, zoomable time-lapse videos that capture, in unprecedented detail, the human impact on this planet.īy collapsing 33 years of satellite imagery into three or four second clips, Google Earth's time-lapse videos give us a "very tangible sense of how large changes can unfold quickly," Levy says.(CNN) - Google Earth users can now see the striking effect of climate change over the past four decades.
To show just how much the Earth's landscape has changed over the past three decades, Google sifted through 5 million satellite images containing three quadrillion pixels. "He said, 'You can observe a lot just by watching.'" "I thought about one of the quotes attributed to Yogi Berra," says Marc Levy, a political scientist at Columbia University's Earth Institute who specializes in issues of global health and development. Google Earth's time lapse videos of earth's landscape could make you think about the great baseball player Yogi Berra.
Google Earth's time-lapse videos show see how the planet's surface has changed over time - like the evaporation of the Aral Sea (above).
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