Google earth

• Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographic information program that was originally called Earth Viewer.

• It was created by Keyhole, Inc.

• Developed by Google.

• OS Windows 2000, XP & Vista, Mac OS X, iPhone OS, Linux

•Google Earth displays satellite images of varying resolution of the Earth's surface

•allowing users to visually see things like cities and houses from a bird's eye view.

•Google Earth allows users to search for addresses for some countries, enter coordinates, or simply use the mouse to browse to a location.

•Google Earth also uses data collected by NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).

•Google Earth supports managing three-dimensional Geospatial data through Keyhole Markup Language (KML).

•Google Earth has the capability to show 3D buildings and structures (such as bridges), which consist of users' submissions using SketchUp, a 3D modeling program.

•Google added a feature that allow users to monitor traffic speeds at loops located every 200 yards in real-time.

•Google Street View was fully integrated into the program allowing the program to provide an on the street level view in many locations.

•Arabic,

•Chinese,

•Czech,

•Danish,

•Dutch,

•English,

•Finnish,

•French,

•German,

Google Earth is now also available in 23 languages:Google Earth is now also available in 23 languages:

•Hebrew,

•Indonesian,

•Italian,

•Japanese,

•Korean,

•Norwegian,

•Polish,

•Portuguese,

•Romanian,

•Russian,

•Spanish,

•Swedish,

•Thai,

•Turkish.

• Sky mode

•Google Earth added a Sky tool for viewing stars and astronomical images.

•Google Sky is produced by Google through a partnership with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore - Hubble Space Telescope.

•Google's Earth maps are being updated each 5 minutes.

•Google Sky will face competition from the upcoming product WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft, anticipated soon.

Google Earth in Sky Viewing ModeGoogle Earth in Sky Viewing Mode

• Street View

•Google fully integrated its Street View into Google Earth.

•Google Street View provides 360° panoramic street-level views and allows users to view parts of selected cities and their surrounding metropolitan areas at ground level.

•Google Street View, when operated, displays photos that were previously taken by a camera, and can be navigated by using the mouse to click on photograph icons displayed on the screen in your direction of travel.

• Flight simulator

•a flight simulator has been included as a hidden feature.

•Depending on the system, it can be accessed by pressing Control+Alt+A,

•After this feature has been activated at least once it appears under the tools menu. the option is hidden by default. Currently the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the Cirrus SR-22 are the only aircraft that can be used, in addition to a few airports.

• Downtown Toronto, as seen from a F16 Fighting Falcon during a simulated flight.

Pentium 3, 500 MHz

128 MB RAM

12.7 MB free disk space (400 MB for Linux)

Network speed: 128 kbit/s

16MB 3D-capable graphics card

Resolution of 1024x768, 16-bit High Color

Windows XP or Windows 2000, Windows Vista(not Windows Me compatible), Linux and Mac OS X

Minimum system configuration

• Most land areas are covered in satellite imagery with a resolution of about 15 m per pixel.

• Some population centers are also covered by aircraft imagery (orthophotography) with several pixels per meter.

• Oceans are covered at a much lower resolution

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Google Earth Plus

Google Earth Pro

Google Earth vs. Plus vs. Pro

• Save view as jpeg

Installation process

Combines satellite imagery, maps and Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.