New How Satellites Document Our Changing World


The satellite constellation of Earth-imaging fellowship Planet Labs is able to render a regular consummate thought of basis at 3-5 one thousand optical resolution. You tin directly explore these satellite images on their new Planet Explorer map.

Planet Explorer allows you lot to discovery how the public has changed over the final year. Using the map's timeline you lot tin zoom-in on whatever place on basis too thought the satellite imagery for whatever month, going dorsum to Jan 2016. If you lot register alongside Planet Labs you lot tin fifty-fifty thought the daily updates to the satellite imagery inwards California.

Currently Planet Explorer has global satellite imagery at a resolution of xxx to forty meters. The the United States yet is available at three to v meter resolution.


The Landsat computer program has been capturing satellite imagery of the basis since the early on 1970's. This agency they directly accept access to over forty years of satellite imagery, which is a wonderful resources for documenting changes to our planet.

Landsat Lens allows you lot to explore how the basis has changed past times comparison Lansat satellite imagery from vi dissimilar years. The map allows you lot to search for whatever place on basis too and thus overlay satellite imagery of your selected place from 1975, 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010 & 2015.

For representative the screenshot to a higher house shows a map of the Aral Sea alongside 4 dissimilar satellite images from 4 dissimilar decades. Being able to straight compare the satellite images from dissimilar decades actually helps to highlight the scale of how chop-chop the Aral Sea is disappearing.


You tin likewise explore our e'er changing public on Google's Timelapse map. Timelapse allows you lot to practice a timelapse sequence from satellite images (from 1984 to 2012) for anywhere on Earth.The application comes alongside a publish of default views that permit you lot to thought timelapse animations of satellite images showing the sprawling increment of Las Vegas, the edifice of Dubai, the shrinking of the Mendenhall Glacier too the drying-up of Lake Urmia.
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