Google Earth: Use timelapse - all information
Google Earth has been offering the Timelapse tool since 2013, which you can use to track changes in the earth's surface over a period of 28 years. After Google updated the feature, a few more years have now come to it. You can read about how to use timelapse in this practical tip.
Google Earth: Use timelapse - all information
After you had previously been able to see the changes in the earth's surface in the period from 1984 to 2012, Google added another four years in its last update. In addition, the images were significantly sharpened using new technology. The fascinating images presented by the Timelapse tool are based on well over five million satellite images, the best of which were selected and put together.
- If you want to activate timelapse in Google Earth, click on the "View historical images" function under "View". Alternatively, move the mouse over the corresponding icon.
- You will then see a timeline from 1984 to 2016. The vertical lines within the timeline indicate whether or from which year images are available for the map section you have selected.
- You can also use the Timelapse function via the Google Earth Engine in the browser. You can see the timeline at the bottom of the screen.
- Below the timeline, some areas are displayed in which the changes in the earth's surface, for example due to climate change, are particularly striking.
- You regulate the running speed yourself by selecting the speed level on the left side of the timeline below the year.
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