The satellite constellation of Earth-imaging fellowship Planet Labs is able to supply a regular consummate sentiment of basis at 3-5 1000 optical resolution. You tin straight off explore these satellite images on their new Planet Explorer map.
Planet Explorer allows you lot to discover how the populace has changed over the final year. Using the map's timeline you lot tin zoom-in on whatever place on basis together with sentiment the satellite imagery for whatever month, going dorsum to Jan 2016. If you lot register alongside Planet Labs you lot tin fifty-fifty sentiment the daily updates to the satellite imagery inwards California.
Currently Planet Explorer has global satellite imagery at a resolution of xxx to xl meters. The U.S.A. withal is available at iii to five meter resolution.
The Landsat computer program has been capturing satellite imagery of the basis since the early on 1970's. This way they straight off accept access to over xl 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 half dozen unlike years. The map allows you lot to search for whatever place on basis together with and then overlay satellite imagery of your selected place from 1975, 1990, 2000, 2005, 2010 & 2015.
For illustration the screenshot inwards a higher house shows a map of the Aral Sea alongside 4 unlike satellite images from 4 unlike decades. Being able to straight compare the satellite images from unlike decades actually helps to highlight the scale of how apace the Aral Sea is disappearing.
You tin too explore our always changing populace on Google's Timelapse map. Timelapse allows you lot to practise a timelapse sequence from satellite images (from 1984 to 2012) for anywhere on Earth.The application comes alongside a reveal of default views that permit you lot to sentiment timelapse animations of satellite images showing the sprawling increment of Las Vegas, the edifice of Dubai, the shrinking of the Mendenhall Glacier together with the drying-up of Lake Urmia.
