This is how the Earth has changed in thirty years

Google Earth has just launched a new feature that allows observing the evolution of the Earth's crust from 1984 to 2016

    In recent years Google Maps and Google Earth, the satellite imagery and navigation service of the Mountain View company, has become a must. The technology has just launched a new feature called Timelapse that shows the changes that have taken place in the earth's crust over the past 32 years.

Five million images from five different satellites and 4 petabytes of data have given life to this evolutionary map for which Earth Engine has been used, the engine with which the company tries to apply satellite images to science and technology. investigation.

   The urban growth in the Las Vegas desert, the expansion of the port of Barcelona, ​​the so-called 'plastic sea' of Almeria, the artificial islands of Dubai or the melting of the glaciers are some of the curiosities that can be seen on the map interactive developed by the Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to the milestones that the company has selected for the map, it has also created a playlist with several videos that show some of the most surprising changes.

The port of Barcelona

Almería and its 'sea of ​​plastic'

The artificial islands of Dubai

Las Vegas

The melting of the Columbia glacier

The Hong Kong airport

These are just some of the examples of a really useful and effective tool that shows the action of man on the earth's crust.