Google Earth Timelapse is an initiative that allows us to see how our planet has changed from the perspective of the satellites, over a great period of years. The Google guys let us check the growth of forests, the movement of glaciers, or how cities expand, over the past 32 years.
This is a necessary tool, which works with an impressive amount and complexity of data and is summarized in timelapses, or small animations that teach us the face of the Earth while informing us of the year we are. Okay, the tool was already operational, but today I want to inform you that a great update has been made.
Google began to develop this experience in 2013, now it receives one of its most powerful updates: it includes four new years of satellite images, with petabytes of new data, and a clearer picture of our planet.
The maximum distance we can find in the different points goes from 1984 to 2016. As is usual in 'Google applications', we are presented with an interactive map where we can jump to the points that interest us, and there witness the changes Occurred in those years.
If you want to see it with excellent quality and in a 'player' format, some of the examples have been uploaded to a YouTube channel in 4K quality. Below are the two cases registered on Dubai and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Obviously there are more striking examples than others, such as the river changes in Nyingchi (Tibet), the reconstruction of the Oakland Bay Bridge (San Francisco), or the change that took place in the petroleum or tar sands of Athabasca (Canada). From the point of view of climate change, we can see how the Exit Glacier decreases in the Alaska Kinai Peninsula.
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