The Google Earth Library showcases add-on content for Google Earth. Some of the content you will find here was created by myself, and some of it created by others. To view an item in Google Earth, simply click on the "Download With Google Earth" button, which will be at the end of each post.
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The TerraLook Archive contains 1,000’s of satellite images from the Terra and Landsat satellites. Many of the images covering environmentally sensitive areas (South American rainforests, etc.) throughout the Earth have been converted for viewing in Google Earth by Dr. Mark Mulligan of King’s College London. The images in this collection date from 1972 to 2006.
Simply select the year you are interested in and zoom into one of the areas covered with imagery. The imagery should appear automatically.
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The collection contains over 2,200 satellite images obtained from NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites overlaid onto Google Earth. These satellite capture excellent natural color imagery in amazing detail from all over the Earth. NASA posts some of the most interesting imagery collected from these satellites several times per week at the MODIS Gallery. NASA also has a MODIS Image of the Day web page, and a RSS Feed if you want to keep up on the daily postings.
The images typically show major events occurring in the world that are visible from space. Dust storms, hurricanes, tropical storms, volcanic eruptions and wildfires are just some of the events captured by the satellites.
One of the shortcomings of the NASA gallery is it lacks a nice user-friendly index for Google Earth. So that’s what I have created for this post. Simply download the KML file from beneath the screenshot and you will get an index sorted by year of all (well…almost all) the MODIS Gallery images from 2003 through 2009. Each image is represented by a placemark and description of the image. Click on the placemark, then click on the blue hyperlink in the pop-up balloon to load the image into Google Earth. Most of the images are around 1 to 5 megabytes, so it might take them a minute or two to load. If you get a Red X, that probably means the image was too large for your computer to download.
About 10% of the images were not indexed by NASA for Google Earth for various reasons (size of image, wrong projection, etc.), which unfortunately includes all imagery near the north and south poles. Also, the quality of the image as you see it in Google Earth might vary depending on how much video memory you have available since these are large JPG files and have not been tiled into SuperOverlays.
I will try to update the index a couple times per year.
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Overlays showing the locations of metro lines at major cities throughout the world. Currently there are about 40 cities included in the collection.
The author (fleckman at GE BBS) appears to be adding more every couple weeks. I checked a few of them and it appears that they are color coded appropriately and the locations of stations are shown for some of the cities.
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