Timelapse Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• The Geological Sublime

  Google Earth Timelapse is a great tool to visualize our world in different scales of space and time: https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Once Lush Sahara Was Home to a Surprisingly Unique Group of Humans

  Https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/31/9/jcli-d-17-0187.1.xml Google maps timeview has a fun animation if you search for Sahara Desert. https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Aralkum Desert

  Google Earth Engine shows a timelapse of the Aral Sea dying between 1984-2022 [0]. [0] https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse#v=44.41071,59.77031,5.508,latLng&t=2.75&ps=50&bt=19840101&et=20221231. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• A picture of Earth through time

  Link to a working version of the project: https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/ The submitted article is a bit random, it's from 2013 and primarily links to a version of the project that doesn't work (as far as I can tell). - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Franz Josef Glacier in '73, Wheels Magazine

  Between 1984 and 2020, Google earthengine shows its retreated over 1.5km. Source: about 3 years ago

• Biology Field Lab Request

  Check out Google Earth Engine for your school environment and see what questions the kids generate from a birds eye view and then go out and do some ground-truthing. Maybe for your area you can see more trees since 1984, or maybe urban expansion. Discuss impervious surfaces and urban runoff and nonpoint source pollution and the garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean and plastic recycling or do a trash pick-up or... Source: over 3 years ago

• Vintage Austin Map

  Not quite as old as this map, but here you can view animated satellite photography of Austin from 1984 to present and watch the city bloat outwards over the past 39 years. Source: over 3 years ago

• What sites that have old aerial photos?

  Https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/ Every place on the earrh from 1984 to 2020 years. Source: over 3 years ago

• Stew, you did this to yourself, really buddy.

  Worth taking a look at the loss of green in google timelapse - see https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/ Time to build up rather than build out. Hungry tree monster must stop. And plant more trees, bike lanes, community gardens out of half the parking lots. And maybe convert one of those parking lots into an airship hangar :) Vertical transport of both goods and people is the way, in the long run. No highways... Source: almost 4 years ago

• Will Salt Lake City become the next Salton City?

  Lies the Salton Sea has been shrinking for years but especially within the past 10 years when the Imperial Irrigation District began huge water diversions to sell to San Diego. This has caused the lake shore to recede immensely, you can see it in satellite photos. Just go and plug in Bombay Beach on this site and as soon as the timeline hits 2003 the lake begins drastically shrinking. Both lakes are shallow... Source: about 4 years ago

• This might sound inflammatory and/or belong in a "No Stupid Questions" forum, but I ask in all sincerity... why is important to Save Old Growth?

  The the impact of logging industry is not always visible. It may seem like a lot of the forest in BC is untouched but if you take a look at satellite footage from 1984 - now on google timelapse, it's quite amazing how much has been logged and how little is untouched. https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/. Source: about 4 years ago

• Google Timelapse

  Google released a new Timelapse feature on Google Earth: https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/. Source: over 4 years ago

• Not sure if this will be of interest to others. Google Earth has a cool aerial time lapse feature. You can see HWY 85 from go from a dirt corridor to a freeway. You can also see the new Apple Space Ship building rising up, and well, a lot of infilling. peace

  1984 thru 2020. you can check out other places as well. https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/. Source: over 4 years ago

• Langford. Got Trees ?

  Watch big hungry clearcut monster eat colwood/langford, and creep ever closer to our entire regions' water supply here: https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/. Source: over 4 years ago

• What key take-aways would you recommend for middle school geography?

  Google earth has this awesome Timelapse tool, yearly Timelapse photos. I think there is great stuff in there to talk about how cities grow, especially areas that students might be familiar with. Maybe beach change, sprawl, etc. Source: over 4 years ago

• What Bay Area city has changed the most since your childhood ?

  The timelapse function in https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/ (or in Google Earth) is fun to play with as well. Zoom in on a city and see how it has changed in the past few decades. Source: over 4 years ago

• Satellite imagery

  Try here for yearly images. Https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/. Source: over 4 years ago

• Which areas of the US do you think will be the best for STRs over the next 10 years?

  Buying real-estate hoping it will appreciate in value is speculation and is gambling. Buying real-estate for rental income is investing. Buy where there are permanent industries with reliable wages. Logging, mining, critical port city, etc. Invest along strong national infrastructure arteries. Go on google maps and zoom out to a country level and slowly go back in. The major infrastructure lines will pop out... Source: over 4 years ago

• Beijing 2022 venues from the sky (before/after)

  It's difficult to grasp the scale until you use that Google Earth Timelapse tool or start looking up even a fraction of the infrastructure they've built. Below are links to a just a few that make the "largest, tallest, longest" list of top infrastructure projects in the world. Source: over 4 years ago

• Nice integration

  They should focus on using the three gorges dam reservoir for floating solar and to shade the river. And perhaps use land that is relatively incapable of growing things instead - what about the sand dunes to the east? https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/. Source: over 4 years ago

• Lake Minchumina and the Underground Pyramid in Alaska, I think i miiiight have found the location!

  I copy pasted the coordinates (63.90911233657512, -152.30401269384032) into google timelapse and you can clearly see the circle changing with the seasons for the last 30 years are so. Makes it really clear there is something interesting there for a long time. Source: over 4 years ago