Category: satellite imagery

Google Maps update makes it easier to see an area’s actual landscape

Post author By Randall
Post date August 18, 2020
Categories In gear, Google, Google Maps, maps, navigation, News, satellite imagery, Tech

[ad_1] Google Maps is already one of the most popular services for navigating and remotely exploring the world. Starting this week, though, its default view will be even more colorful and, hopefully, useful for travellers. Google took its satellite imagery and applied some fancy computer vision to accurately identify forests, deserts, rivers and snow-capped mountains. […]

Decades of spy satellite images help track melting Himalayan glaciers

Post author By Randall
Post date June 19, 2019
Categories In Climate Change, environment, gear, glacier, global warming, green, hexagon, national reconnaissance office, nro, satellite, satellite imagery, Science, Space, spy satellite, Tech, usgs

[ad_1] The team also collected historical temperature data to identify any correlations. As for the findings themselves? They don’t look good. Scientists found that the rate of glacier loss between 2000 and 2016, 20 inches per year, was double what it was between 1975 and 2000. And while factors like precipitation and soot (which hastens […]