{"id":657043,"date":"2013-05-09T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=643682"},"modified":"2013-05-09T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:36:55","slug":"stunning-google-earth-photos-show-our-planet-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657043","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Google Earth photos show our planet changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google along with the US Geological Survey, NASA and TIME has shared a quarter-century of photos taken from space that show the surface of the earth and the changes that have happened over that period. From Google’s blogpost<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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We started working with the USGS in 2009 to make this historic archive of earth imagery available online. Using Google Earth Engine technology, we sifted through 2,068,467 images\u2014a total of 909 terabytes of data\u2014to find the highest-quality pixels (e.g., those without clouds), for every year since 1984 and for every spot on Earth. We then compiled these into enormous planetary images, 1.78 terapixels each, one for each year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The changes on our planet are stunning. A glacier has almost vanished, a new city has been created and Amazon rainforest has been decimated. Our capability as humans to destroy our planet and re-create it is astonishing.\u00a0The whole project makes you realize that in order to understand something important and profound, you have to look at it over a period of time.<\/p>\n

Check it out on Google\u2019s Timelapse website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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