

Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account For the project, the company worked with NASA, the United States Geological Survey’s Landsat program - the world’s longest-running Earth observation program - the European Union’s Copernicus program and its Sentinel satellites, and Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab, which helped develop the technology behind Timelapse. (GOOG) said took two million processing hours across thousands of machines in Google Timelapse compiles 24 million satellite photos taken from 1984 to 2020, an effort Google The tool takes the platform’s static imagery and turns it into a dynamic 4D experience, allowing users to click through timelapses that highlight melting ice caps, receding glaciers, massive urban growth and wildfires’ impact on agriculture. Google’s latest feature, Timelapse, is an eye opening, technical feat that provides visual evidence of how the Earth has changed due to climate change and human behavior.

Google hoped governments, researchers, journalists, teachers and advocates would analyze the imagery, identity trends and share their findings.Google Earth users can now see the striking effect of climate change over the past four decades.

Google Earth takes you on a guided tour of each topic to better understand them," Google said. "As we looked at what was happening, five themes emerged: forest change, urban growth, warming temperatures, sources of energy, and our world’s fragile beauty. Google has worked with experts at Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab to create the technology behind Timelapse, and it worked with them to make sense of what are on view. All of them were stitched together into a Timelapse video.

Google said it removed elements such as clouds and shadows from the images, and computed a single pixel for every location on Earth for every year since 1984. To explore Timelapse in Google Earth, users can type any location into the search bar - g.co/Timelapse (opens in new tab) - "to choose any place on the planet where you want to see time in motion."
