Time-lapse map chronicles decades of global change as seen from space
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 16:30
in Astronomy & Space
Satellite imagery can serve as a time machine, revealing dramatic change in just a few seconds — but can you imagine documenting almost three decades' worth of all that change, across most of our planet's land mass? A team of imaging experts, computer scientists and journalists did. Now they've unveiled the result: a globa database of zoomable, animated satellite views known as Timelapse."We belie...