Google has named Earth Timelapse project, which aims to show changes in the Earth's surface. The project has now been updated with the addition of new Earth surface data.
New data in question is a photograph of the Earth's surface from the period 2014 to 2016. In addition the data that has been owned by NASA, Google Earth has a data change Earth's surface from 1984 to 2016.
Interestingly, since the data covering the entire surface of the Earth, it changes the face of Jakarta from satellite imagery can be seen. The most noticeable changes are reclaimed in the Bay of Jakarta, which features the small islands in north Jakarta.
In addition, if you are observant, you can see the development of Soekarno-Hatta airport area, as well as the more dense Kemayoran area, which was once also an airfield.
To see the changing face of Jakarta, you can visit the website Google Earth Timelapse at the following link, and then navigate to the display area of Jakarta. Of course, you can also see other areas in Indonesia.
Size petabytes
Google process a total of about 5 million satellite captured images. The image collected from five different satellites, and curated to choose the best 3.000 trillion pixels.
From curatorial, Google makes 33 images of Earth's surface. The image is then processed again into a map of the Earth's surface by year, ie 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.
"With the addition of four photos in a four-year period, new data petabyte-sized, and the Earth surface images sharper, our colleagues in Time makes this update," explained Program Manager of Google Earth Engine, Chris Herwig through the official Google blog.
The results, as reported by KompasTekno of Ars Technica, Friday (02/12/2016), is a timelapse that can be used to see the widening area of the city of Las Vegas, the melting of glaciers at the poles, or the process of formation of reclaimed island in Dubai, or also in the Bay of Jakarta ,
