Tags: Tags: NASA, Satellite Imagery, Earth Observation, Google
Publication: InformationWeek.com
Publication Date: 12/11/2012
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Image of the continental United States at night assembled from Suomi NPP satellite data obtained in April and October 2012.
Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC
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Google has added the latest imagery NASA released of Earth at night to its popular Google Maps. The partnership between the company and U.S. government agencies allowed it to access the images and add them to its platform.
Users can zoom down to the city level allowing them to see how wildfires in Australia, or gas flares caused by oil and gas drilling in North Dakota and the Middle East look like from space when the sun doesn’t illuminate the Earth. However, users won’t be able to go lower than street level using the “Black Marble” imagery.
NASA has also released its own interactive version of the imagery through its Earth Observing System Data and Information System’s (EOSDIS) Worldview tool released in July.
The imagery, collected by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, are among the highest resolution released by NASA since it started taking satellite images of Earth in 960.
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