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Google Maps Update - Sharper Imagery


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"Three years ago we introduced a cloud-free mosaic of the world in Google Earth. Today we’re rolling out an even more beautiful and seamless version, with fresh imagery from Landsat 8 satellite and new processing techniques for sharper images than ever before. Satellite images are often cloudy, but not always over the same place, so we looked at millions of images and took the clearest pixels to stitch together this cloud-free and seamless image.

Landsat 8, which launched into orbit in 2013, is the newest sensor in the USGS/NASA Landsat Program—superior to its predecessors in many ways. Landsat 8 captures images with greater detail, truer colors, and at an unprecedented frequency—capturing twice as many images as Landsat 7 does every day. This new rendition of Earth uses the most recent data available -- mostly from Landsat 8 -- making it our freshest global mosaic to date."

Details at https://maps.googleblog.com/2016/06/keeping-earth-up-to-date-and-looking.html

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These are much better satellite images. It's a nice improvement.  :smile:

Satellite is only medium and low resolution imagery so when you zoom in closer you will still find the same aerial imagery that's been there all along. Satellites only do high resolution ground imagery on television, in real life close ground imagery is still done with aerial photography from airplanes.

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