These images, which are shared by Google Maps, are actually a combination of aerial photos and satellite imagery--and a lot of postprocessing. Technology Review interviewed engineers at Google and at DigitalGlobe, the company that supplies Google's satellite photos, and did a little bit of reverse-engineering to figure out how it works.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Google Earth, How Google maps the world.
These images, which are shared by Google Maps, are actually a combination of aerial photos and satellite imagery--and a lot of postprocessing. Technology Review interviewed engineers at Google and at DigitalGlobe, the company that supplies Google's satellite photos, and did a little bit of reverse-engineering to figure out how it works.
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