{"id":13599,"date":"2016-12-06T15:36:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13599"},"modified":"2016-12-06T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:36:05","slug":"google-timelapse-displays-changes-to-any-spot-on-earth-over-32-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13599","title":{"rendered":"Google Timelapse displays changes to any spot on earth over 32 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, Google released\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthengine.google.com\/timelapse\/#\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/earthengine.google.com\/timelapse\/#\"><span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"Timelapse\" data-scayt-lang=\"en_US\">Timelapse<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/earthengine.google.com\/timelapse\/#\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/earthengine.google.com\/timelapse\/#\"> Earth Engine<\/a>\u00a0that used historical remote sensing imagery as seen with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/earth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Earth<\/a> to show how parts of the earth had changed over time. Google has now released an updated version of the Engine. They have\u00a0processed\u00a0quadrillions of image pixels and used advanced image analysis techniques to expand and improve\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthengine.google.com\/timelapse\/#\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/earthengine.google.com\/timelapse\/#\"><span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"Timelapse\" data-scayt-lang=\"en_US\">Timelapse<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/earthengine.google.com\/timelapse\/#\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/earthengine.google.com\/timelapse\/#\"> Earth Engine<\/a>\u00a0such that you can display a\u00a0sequences of sharp looking images for most any spot on earth for each year over a span of\u00a0more than three decades.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/earth\/our-most-detailed-view-earth-across-space-and-time\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/earth\/our-most-detailed-view-earth-across-space-and-time\/\">Our most detailed view of Earth across space and time &#8211; Google<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/google-timelapse-now-lets-you-see-how-any-location-on-earth-has-changed-in-32-years\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/google-timelapse-now-lets-you-see-how-any-location-on-earth-has-changed-in-32-years\">Google <span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"Timelapse\" data-scayt-lang=\"en_US\">Timelapse<\/span> lets you see how any location on Earth has changed in 32 years &#8211; <span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"ScienceAlert\" data-scayt-lang=\"en_US\">ScienceAlert<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/earth\/our-most-detailed-view-earth-across-space-and-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13600\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=13600\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Tibet_China1.gif\" data-orig-size=\"800,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tibet_china1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Tibet_China1.gif\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13600\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Tibet_China1.gif\" alt=\"tibet_china1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a reduced sized version of the Engine:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/earthengine.google.com\/iframes\/timelapse_player_embed.html\" width=\"520\" height=\"289\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The full size version allows you to enter a location and the engine will zoom in on that place. Fun to see how one&#8217;s local area has changed over 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, Google released\u00a0the\u00a0Timelapse Earth Engine\u00a0that used historical remote sensing imagery as seen with\u00a0Google Earth to show how parts of the earth had changed over time. Google has now released an updated version of the Engine. They have\u00a0processed\u00a0quadrillions of image pixels and used advanced image analysis techniques to expand and improve\u00a0the\u00a0Timelapse Earth Engine\u00a0such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13599\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Timelapse displays changes to any spot on earth over 32 years<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyes-in-the-sky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3xl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":738,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=738","url_meta":{"origin":13599,"position":0},"title":"More gorgeous ISS imagery of the nighttime earth","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A beautiful video (with soundtrack) of nighttime views of the earth as seen from the ISS: Another Incredible Timelapse from the ISS - universetoday.com Caption: Published on Feb 1, 2013 Edited by Brian Tomlinson: http:\/\/www.btprints.com Original stills for the time lapse sequences courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eyes in the Sky&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eyes in the Sky","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=27"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/B18UEqn5Yw4\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12158,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12158","url_meta":{"origin":13599,"position":1},"title":"Videos: Beautiful time-lapse imagery of earth and sky","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out this wonderful\u00a0time-lapse video from the project SKYGLOW, which\u00a0includes great views of the night sky: \u00a0A Meteorite Explodes Over the Mojave in This Incredible Timelapse Video - Gizmodo\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/vimeo.com\/153992994 A couple of other Skyglow videos: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/147382113 https:\/\/vimeo.com\/112008512 \u00a0 =====","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5274,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5274","url_meta":{"origin":13599,"position":2},"title":"Comets ISON and Lovejoy in timelapse video","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Photographer\u00a0Justin Ng\u00a0created these\u00a0timelapse sequences of Comet ISON and Comet Lovejoy\u00a0images (via\u00a0Universe Today). 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