

And you thought the world was small before.

in Denver to the Forbidden Palace in Beijing, China. from space and if you click on "Forbidden City" in the "Sightseeing" column, you can see what it would look like to fly Superman-style from 1600 Curtis St.

and watch it disappear into a satellite view of the Earth and then zoom back in as if you were falling onto 1600 Curtis St. is in the 80202 zip code and that there are 12 Starbucks Coffee shops within a half-mile radius of that address you can zoom out from 1600 Curtis St. In the same search, though, you can also learn that 1600 Curtis St. and how to get from your address to 1600 Curtis St. Type "Denver, CO" into the Google Earth search box, and yes, you can learn where Denver, Colo. Participants only need Google Chrome web browser and a stable internet connection.Google Earth is no ordinary mapping application. Google Earth Engine is run in the cloud, so no software downloads are necessary.

Previously, remote sensing required downloading huge datasets and high computing power to process the data, but Google Earth Engine takes care of that by storing and processing 50+ years of earth observation data on Google’s servers. Using a few lines of simple code, you can access images for a region, display a map, look for temporal or spatial trends, export data and statistics, and much more. Google Earth Engine (not to be confused with Google Earth) allows anyone to access and process satellite imagery quickly and easily.
