Google launches Kenya's Samburu Park on Street View
Google Street View has launched its maps of Kenya's Samburu National Park, which allows internet users to take a virtual safari in the conservancy. The initiate, launched together with the charity Save the Elephants, wants to promote wildlife conservation. Read more
Title: Teaching Waves with Google Earth Authors: Fabrizio Logiurato
Google Earth is a huge source of interesting illustrations of various natural phenomena. It can represent a valuable tool for science education, not only for teaching geography and geology, but also physics. Here we suggest that Google Earth can be used for introducing in an attractive way the physics of waves.
PGC teams with Internet giant to provide high-res imagery to the public
The southern continent has always been on Google maps and its popular Google Earth application. The problem was that much of the imagery was about as sharp as the graphics in Pong, one of the earliest arcade video games. But Paul Morin External Non-U.S. government site and his mapmakers at the Polar Geospatial Centre (PGC) External Non-U.S. government site at the University of Minnesota External Non-U.S. government site are doing all they can to change that with the cooperation of the Internet giant. Read more
This information shows a sample of the areas in which our cars are currently operating. We try to make sure the information is accurate and kept up to date, but because of factors outside our control (weather, road closures, etc), it is always possible that our cars may not be operating, or be operating in areas that are not listed. In these circumstances, we'll try to update the list as soon as we can. Read more
A planetary-scale platform for environmental data & analysis
Google Earth Engine brings together the world's satellite imagery - trillions of scientific measurements dating back more than 25 years - and makes it available online with tools for scientists, independent researchers, and nations to mine this massive warehouse of data to detect changes, map trends and quantify differences to the earth's surface. Read more