Google Collaborates with Agencies to Mark 40 years of Landsat
Landsat was launched in 1972 and started beaming images of the planet from that same year. Google Earth joined Landsat in 2005 doing the same thing but to a larger world audience. And this was the key to Google Earth’s success as over a billion downloads of images have been made to date and the stats are still stacking up.
To mark the pioneering efforts of Landsat in this field, Google has collaborated with US Geological Survey and Carnegie Mellon to create what they call time-lapse videos of images that cover various parts of the earth from seasonal snow cover images in North America to the deforestation of the Amazon.
The used the Google Earth engine (Google has been using to snap images with low resolution 100 feet per pixel but have introduced the 8 feet per pixel images) to process the immense archive and make it available for public viewing.
2012-07-27 22:38:03
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