#google Earth’s Timelapse update illustrates 30 years of climate change
November 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
The team behind Google Earth released an update today to the timelapse feature of its satellite imagery app, and it’s a great way to see the rapid pace of urban development and public infrastructure projects like the San Francisco Bay Bridge. It’s a cool feature, letting anyone jump into any location and watch as is morphs over the years. But there’s another, more sobering and neccesary function of Google Earth: seeing how human-driven climate change has transformed the planet in just 32 years time.
The new update adds another four years of data — stretching now from 1984 to 2016. It also includes petabytes of high-resolution imagery from two new satellites, Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2, so we can see in even clearer detail the effects of…
