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Imagery Update: Week of January 9th
January 13, 2012
Update (January 23, 2012):
Some imagery was not included in the last update as expected. The following countries received updated imagery: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greenland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Slovakia, South Africa, Svalbard, Syria, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, United States, Wake Island, Yemen
It’s a new year and what better way to usher it in than with new aerial and satellite imagery published by the
Google Earth
and
Maps
Imagery Team! In this post, we’ll explore several international features captured in this latest update.
Our first example is part of an aerial image acquired last August of the central park grounds, fountain, and wasserturm (water tower) of
Mannheim, Germany
. Mannheim is the city where Karl Benz built and tested the world’s first automobile.
Mannheim Water Tower, Mannheim, Germany
Our next aerial example, also acquired last August, shows the water parks of
Linz, Austria
, adjacent to the Danube River. The park makes up part of the "Kulturmeile" ("culture mile") that includes museums and concert halls.
Sun and water bathers, Linz, Austria
The satellite image below shows the medieval grounds and structures of one of the oldest castles in the world, the
Citadel of Aleppo
in Syria. The citadel sits on a large hill that has been in use since the 3rd millenium BC, and is outlined by perimeter walls and a foundation that reaches 50 meters in height.
Citadel of Aleppo, Syria
This next satellite image highlights a section of the Great Wall of China in Badaling, Yanqing County, China. This site is the most visited section of the wall, and hosted U.S. President Nixon and Vice Premier Li Xiannian during Nixon’s historic visit to China.
Section of the Great Wall of China in Badaling, Yanqing County, China
Lastly, shown below is a satellite image of the
National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center
, in Dong, Taiwan. Shown at bottom center is the partially built circular Taiwan Photon Source facility, due to be completed in 2013.
National Synchrotron Radiation Center, Dong, Taiwan
If you’d like to receive an email notification when the Google Earth and Maps Imagery team updates your favorite site(s), we’ve got just the tool: The
Follow Your World
application!
These are only a few examples of the types of features that can be seen and discovered in our latest batch of published imagery. Happy exploring!
High resolution aerial updates:
USA: Baton Rouge, LA; Brady, TX; Downieville, CA; East Bay, CA; El Paso, TX; Greenwood, MS; Greenwood, SC; Kingman AZ; Level Land, TX; Long View, TX; Lufkin, TX; Ozona, TX; Quincy, CA; Radium Springs, NM; San Angelo, TX
Austria: Innsbruck, Linz,
Germany: Augsburg, Mannheim
Countries/regions receiving high resolution satellite updates:
Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Svalbard, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Bank, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
These updates are now available in both Google Maps and Google Earth. For a complete picture of where we updated imagery, download
this KML
for viewing in
Google Earth
.
Posted by Eric Kolb, Geo Data Strategist
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