Trying to get people to understand the scope of the climate change and the land use problem is so difficult because of the long time and spatial scales. “This is amazing,” she said after watching a preview of the new feature. Google says it undertook the complex project in partnership with several government agencies, including Nasa in the US and its European counterpart, in hopes that it will help a mass audience grasp the sometimes abstract concept of climate change in more tangible terms through its free Earth app.Ĭornell University climate scientist Natalie Mahowald believes that mission may be accomplished. The tool unveiled on Thursday is rolling out in what is being billed as the biggest update to Google Earth in five years. If you don’t want to go around searching for key locations, the company has also amassed hundreds of Timelapses in this playlist.SAN RAMON: The Google Earth app is adding a new video feature that draws upon nearly four decades of satellite imagery to vividly illustrate how climate change has affected glaciers, beaches, forests and other places around the world. To try out Timelapse for yourself, you can head on over to Google Earth here. The company is hoping Timelapse provides users with a tangible sense of how our planet is changing over time, and why we need to protect it. The company has a guided tour based upon each theme. Google also worked with the Create Lab at Carnegie Mellon to identify five key themes of change visible in Google Earth: forest change, urban growth, warming temperatures, energy sources, and the planet’s fragile beauty. It took more than two million processing hours across thousands of machines in Google Cloud to compile 20 petabytes of satellite imagery into a single 4.4 terapixel-sized video mosaic - that’s the equivalent of 530,000 videos in 4K resolution! And all this computing was done inside our carbon-neutral, 100% renewable energy-matched data centers, which are part of our commitments to help build a carbon-free future. As you can imagine, creating a timelapse of the whole darn planet took an absolutely bonkers amount of processing power, involving tons of imagery from NASA’s Landsat and the European Union’s Copernicus programs.
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