The Earth does not stop changing, and Google Earth Timelapse brings us new images of 2021 and 2022 to see how the planet has evolved since 1984. Deserts, cities, forests, seas, mountains… all kinds of scenarios changed by human action, the natural evolution and climate impact that you can see for yourself with an interactive four-dimensional map made from millions of satellite photos.
Timelapse consists of the collection of millions of images from Google Earth through a fast-motion video of the entire Earth, in which it is possible to modify the image to your liking, to see how the world is changing visually from near and far and very striking with the modifications on the terrestrial surface.
From the desert areas of Egypt that have been transformed into irrigated lands to the changes in the meandering courses of the rivers in the Amazon jungle of Pucallpa (Peru), not forgetting the volcanic eruptions, the felling of trees and the forest fires that have altered the landscape of the Lassen National Forest in California, these are some of the most spectacular images from Google Earth Timelapse.
Climate change also has a notable effect on these almost four decades that Timelapse collects in accelerated sequences: The Andasol solar panel park in Granada or the forest of offshore wind farms in Middelgrunden (Denmark) show how the fight against the climate crisis it is also seen from thousands of kilometers away.
Incredible library of 800+ timelapse videos from 300+ locations is now available at g.co/TimelapseVideos, a must-see graphic doc series. Google Earth makes these videos completely available to you to better understand how our planet is changing, especially for researchers and teachers.
Documentaries such as The Territory (2022) have been made based on these images that reflect the changes on Earth like no other, and in this specific case, the progress of deforestation in the Amazon and its effects on the Amazon can be seen in great detail. local communities through accelerated Timelapse sequences.
To achieve these spectacular moving galleries, Google Earth draws on several top international institutions, such as NASA, the Landsat program of the United States Geological Survey (the dean among civil Earth observation programs) and the Copernicus program. of the European Union, which provides images taken by the Sentinel satellites.
With this database, Timelapse manages to capture decades of change on the planet in a few seconds, which you now have at your disposal with a single click. What are you waiting for to see how the world has changed in a way never seen before?
