We recently came across a site called "Thomas Pesquet in Google Earth". It features a KML file that includes over 620 photographs of Earth form the International Space Station (ISS) by French … [Read more...]
Seconds from launch? A prepped rocket on the launchpad
July 27, 2017
Yesterday we showed you a video created by satellite imaging company Planet of the launch of their most recent flock of Doves using a series of images they had captured from orbit. As we mentioned in … [Read more...]
Satellite launch in satellite imagery
July 26, 2017
A couple of weeks ago, satellite imaging company Planet launched a flock of 48 'Doves', their low cost imaging satellites. They managed to capture imagery of the launch from one of the Doves already … [Read more...]
Google Earth Imagery Update: Volcanic Island in Alaska and Fire in Russia
July 25, 2017
Google has recently added some fresh imagery to Google Earth. It is currently only visible in the default layer, so there will be more to see once Google updates the 'historical imagery' layer as … [Read more...]
Colorising Black and White Historical Aerial Imagery
July 24, 2017
We were recently contacted by Zachary Bortolot an Associate Professor in the Geographic Science Program at James Madison University. He has been developing a method of realistically colorising black … [Read more...]
Google Street View goes to the International Space Station
July 21, 2017
Yesterday Google announced on its blog that they have added views of the International Space Station (ISS) to Google Street View. The Google blog post is written by Thomas Pesquet, Astronaut at the … [Read more...]
Man made ‘Fairy Circles’
July 20, 2017
'Fairy Circles' are a phenomena that occurs in the Namib Desert involving circular patches of bare ground forming striking patterns visible in satellite imagery. We have looked at a number of similar … [Read more...]
Game of Thrones in Street View and Google Earth
July 19, 2017
In celebration of the season seven premiere of popular TV series “Game of Thrones”, Google has created a Street View collection of various locations used in the filming of the series. Although we … [Read more...]
Homeowner mows ‘A-hole’ message on lawn over a dispute with neighbour
July 18, 2017
A recent story in the news about a homeowner in Dungeness, Washington, USA who, as a result of a dispute with a neighbour wrote a giant message saying 'A hole' and an arrow pointing at his … [Read more...]
Planet Launches 48 More Satellites
July 17, 2017
On July 14, 2017, satellite imaging company Planet launched another 48 of their small, low resolution, satellites they call 'Doves' into orbit. They were launched on a Soyuz rocket together with a … [Read more...]