A few weeks ago we had a look at some calibration targets used by the classified Corona spy satellites. Today we are looking at a set of calibration targets and other interesting features at ...

One welcome improvement to the new Google Earth over Google Earth Classic is that the user contributed photos now work. For a long time, Google Earth Classic has shown the blue dots representing ...

New York 3D in New GE Google has released a new version of Google Earth today that has been re-designed for a new generation of 3D mapping applications. This first release is not a program you ...

Scrolling down the page and you see there’s a world to explore with a new feature called Voyager. And there’s a new Google Earth for Android version as well. Back at the top, there is a button ...

It is often useful to be able to get Google Earth placemarks into Excel (or other spreadsheet application or even a database). One way to do this is to save your placemarks as a .KML file (do not ...

Today we are releasing our map of Google Earth imagery updates for 2016. Download this KML file to see it in Google Earth. Let us know in the comments if you find any interesting sights that we ...

The region around Shenzhen, China, 1985 vs 2016 Note that the new data is created by blending all Landsat/Sentinel 2 data for a whole year to remove clouds and snow cover. The result is that ...

Read more about it here. We also found a reference to one in the Okavango delta. You can read the full story about it in a PDF found here. Apparently a Brian Wilson discovered a rotating floating ...

When we had a look at the ‘rainbow effect’ of planes in flight we mentioned that the offsets of the different images were a result of both the plane’s movement and the movement of the ...

Google Earth has just had a makeover. Google has refreshed the global mosaic imagery that you see when zoomed out with newer, better quality imagery. When you zoom in, Google Earth transitions to ...

Landsat 8 imagery vs Sentinel 2A imagery. Images courtesy of USGS/NASA Landsat and Copernicus Sentinel data 2016. To see the images in Google Earth download this KML file.

Whenever we look at imagery update maps we notice certain patterns in the updates. One of the factors that causes these patterns is seasonality. We have long known that Google avoids snow cover in ...