Want to watch deforestation spread across the Amazon, or witness Las Vegas conquering the deserts of Nevada? A feature on Google Earth lets you explore time-lapse footage from 13 years of satellite data.
The tool -- built by Google, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's robotics institute, and the US Geological Survey (USGS) -- lets you view imagery collected by Nasa's Landsat program between 1999 and 2011.
By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/31/google-earth-timelapse
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