Google Earth: Timelapse functionality lets you go back in time and that’s great!

Over the past fifteen years, Google Earth has continued to refine its formula. Since May 2020, for example, the Google Earth mapping service has been equipped with new fun features, along with the ability to organize quizzes and guided tours. And this Thursday, April 15, 2021, Google Earth is welcoming its biggest update since 2017.

Google offers a pretty impressive new feature in this new version. baptized time lapselets you enjoy it”a temporal view of our planet possible thanks towatching time pass and witnessing nearly four decades of global change”.

Timelapse feature is available in any version of Google Earth, maybe you could try it in preview in Android app. In the web version, just click ship wheel icon To access Timelapse you can find it there interactive guided tours around five themes special “describing what is happening on our planet”:

• deforestation
• urbanization
• Global warming
• energy sources
• fragile beauty

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To integrate animated images into Timelapse, Google 20 million satellite images taken between 1984 and 2020. That’s 2 million hours of operations across thousands of servers in Google Cloud. It must be said that there is an astronomical amount of data to digest: 20 petabytes for a video mosaic of almost 4.4 therapists (ie 4 followed by 12 zeros), or the equivalent of 530,000 videos in 4K.

Through this tool, you will be able to benefit 800 videos in 2D and 3D this way you will be able to see the changes made in the last 40 years in Dune du Pilat in France, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and even Las Vegas in Nevada State. Google, thanks to Timelapse Internet users “discover new things hitherto unseen” and make them use this tool “marvel at the changing shapes of the coasts, watch the expansion of megalopolises or observe the consequences of deforestation”.

Source: Google Accelerated