Il biggest Google Earth update in recent years came to introduce one new feature in the application, which allows you to see for yourself how the earth has changed over the years. With the Time Lapse function, Google has integrated 24 million satellite images captured over the past 37 years, to offer a unique experience through which you can see how the passage of time has affected all parts of the world.
If you want check the changes yourself, we will explain you step by step as you can use the Google Earth Time Lapse feature.
Google Earth now includes a Time Lapse feature.
How to create a Time Lapse with Google Earth
As Google himself explains, each Google Earth Time Lapse It includes a interactive video which can be enlarged, to see how the planet has changed since 1984.
Accessing the Time Lapse function of Google Earth is very simple:
- Go to the Time Lapse page in Google Earth.
- Enter the name of the place you want to see in the search bar.
- Choose one of the Time Lapses.
Eventually you will be directed to Google Earth and you will be able to see the interactive video of the place you have chosen.
Google hopes this tool will give creators and users around the world wings to find a way to use this type of video in their academic and artistic projects. To facilitate this, they have been published more than 800 Time Lapse videos in 2D and 3D for public use, which anyone can use completely free of charge.
To produce each video, Google explains how it had to resort to technology called "pixel processing" by Google Earth Engine. In this way they have been combined more than 24 million images taken between 1984 and 2020, that were subsequently processed by thousands of Google Cloud machines.
The result of this feat was the obtaining of 20 petabytes of satellite images, subsequently integrated into a single video mosaic weighing 4,4 therapy. In this way, Google claims to have created the video of the largest planet in the world.
