Google Earth has released more than 800 videos from Timelapse data for the public to view without needing to search for them on Google Earth, which will be published on YouTube.Įxamples of the power of Timelapse include seeing the growth of Las Vegas, the most rapidly expanding city in the US in recent decades watching forests disappear looking on as glaciers vanish watching the construction of the UAE's artificial Palm islands and seeing enormous solar farms pop up. Therefore, military bases and other confidential areas will not be removed or muzzed out. Google said it would also be open to working with other space agencies who may have more satellite image available, such as JAXA and ISRO, if they share the open-data dreams of Google, NASA and the EU.Įxamples of the power of Timelapse include seeing the growth of Las Vegas, the most rapidly expanding city in the US in recent decades watching forests disappear looking on as glaciers vanish watching the construction of the UAE's artificial Palm islands and seeing enormous solar farms pop upĭevelopers of Timelapse say there are no restrictions on where a person can gaze, with the resolution and clarity of low enough resolution to not pose a security risk. Satellite programmes such as Landsat run by NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the Copernicus programme run by the EU fed the data with which Google made Timelapse. 'It took more than two million processing hours across thousands of machines in Google Cloud to compile 20 petabytes of satellite imagery into a single 4.4 terapixel-sized video mosaic - that’s the equivalent of 530,000 videos in 4K resolution!' 'To add animated Timelapse imagery to Google Earth, we gathered more than 24 million satellite images from 1984 to 2020, representing quadrillions of pixels. 'Making a planet-sized timelapse video required a significant amount of what we call “pixel crunching” in Earth Engine, Google's cloud platform for geospatial analysis,' Google says in a blog post. Google Earth has released more than 800 videos from Timelapse data for the public to view without needing to search for them on Google Earth, which will be published on YouTube (pictured)

Google time lapse tool