Satellite maps from Google are popular. It is a handy and practical tool that allows you to view the planet at any scale. Satellite imagery reveals details: small streets and alleys near home, cities, countries and continents. This became possible thanks to satellite imagery.
Earlier to receive images from Space shooting by a television camera with transmission of a signal to the station or shooting with a special photographic camera, the pictures of which were displayed on film, were used. Today, modern space technology makes it possible to look at the planet thanks to the scanning mechanism embedded in the satellites.
Satellite Map Application and Purposes
Currently, the world map from a satellite in real time is used in many areas: the state of agricultural fields, forests, the ocean is analyzed and the location of friends is identified using a smartphone. Google satellite map is used for these resources.
The main purpose of using satellite images of the world from Google remains navigation. The site presents a diagram of the world showing continents, states, cities, streets and highways. This helps to navigate the area, assess its landscape and simply travel around the Earth without leaving home.
Quality of images of the world map online from the satellite
Highest resolution images are available for the largest cities in Ukraine, America, Russia, Belarus, Asia, Europe and Oceania with a population of over a million. For settlements with fewer inhabitants, images are available in a limited number and of poorer quality.
Despite this, everyone can take a closer look at the territory of their house, nearby streets, see a photo of the planet from almost any point. Pictures reveal placement:
- cities, towns, villages,
- streets, lanes
- rivers, seas, lakes, forest zones, deserts, etc.
Good quality cartographic images allows you to see the landscape of the selected area in detail.
Google Maps Satellite Features:
Google satellite maps help you see objects in detail that are difficult to evaluate on conventional diagrams. Satellite images preserve the natural shape of the object, its size and colors. Before printing and circulation, ordinary, classic maps undergo editorial work to match the scale, as a result of which the natural colors of the terrain and the shapes of objects are lost. Naturalness is preserved on cartographic images.
In addition, on the map, you can quickly find a city of interest in any country. The diagram has a column in which in Russian you can indicate the country, city and even the house number. In a second, the diagram will zoom in and show the location of the given object and those that are next to it.
World satellite map mode
Satellite images have the ability to switch to world map mode. It helps to view the territory on the planet's surface, to get as close as possible to the selected object, to consider the layout of the placement. This mode allows you to quickly and conveniently plan a trip route, travel around the city, find attractions, etc.
By specifying a house number, the diagram will display its location relative to the city center in a second. It is also possible to plot a route from an initially specified object. To do this, you need to click on the appropriate button and enter the address.
Earth map from satellite to site
the site allows users to use a satellite map in real time for free. For convenience, the map is divided into countries. To search for a specific city or familiarize yourself with the area of the state, click on the one you are interested in and start your "travel". The service is constantly improving, work is underway to place satellite images in high resolution in small settlements.
The good quality of satellite cartographic images online, posted on our website, helps to quickly find the desired object, inspect the landscape, estimate the distance between cities, find out the location of forests, rivers, seas and oceans. Traveling around the world has become even more accessible with Voweb.
Where can you see satellite images of our planet? Paris, New York, Niagara Falls, Everest and many other well-known and unknown places of the Earth, we can see with the help of an interactive virtual globe - the Google Earth program.
With the help of this program, you will see our entire planet on your monitor screen. The free Google Earth program includes a globe, atlas and travel guide service.
Using this program, you can navigate to the desired place anywhere in the world. In the Google Earth program, you can see the relief of our planet, city streets, 3D buildings, 3D trees, historical images, the ocean, the sky, the Moon and Mars.
Google Earth can also be used for educational purposes. This is one of those programs that are always installed on my computer.
To install the program to your computer from the official Google website, go to the website www.google.com... On the download page, you will need to click on the "Accept terms and download" button. You can uncheck the boxes opposite the corresponding items if you do not want to download the Google Chrome browser to your computer at the same time.
The Google Earth installer will be downloaded from the download page. Then, after starting the installer, the installation of the Google Earth program on the computer begins.
After the Google Earth program has been installed on your computer, launch the program from the shortcut on the Desktop or from the Start menu => All Programs => Google Earth => Google Earth.
Google Earth Settings
After opening the Google Earth program window, the "Side Panel" will open at the left edge of the program window. In order for our planet to be displayed in the entire program window, the "Side Panel" can be removed.
To do this, go to the "View" menu, and then uncheck the box opposite the "Side panel" item, or by clicking on the corresponding button below the program menu bar.
In the right corner of the program window there are control buttons for the Google Earth program.
Using the top button, you can change the viewing angle in order to observe the displayed surface not only from above. With this button you can rotate the globe or move the orientation to the cardinal points. If you click on the letter "N", then the globe will be oriented to the north. These commands can be executed with the mouse by pressing the left button and moving the mouse.
Using the other button below, you can navigate the space by clicking on the corresponding side. If the mouse cursor is moved closer to the edge of this button, then the speed of movement will be higher than when the cursor is closer to the center of the button.
By moving the slider along the axis, you can zoom in or out from the image loaded by the program. You can also zoom in or out on Earth images by rotating the mouse wheel forward or backward.
At the bottom of the program window are displayed: "date of shooting", "coordinates of the place" from which the view of our planet is displayed, "height above sea level" and "height of the terrain view".
The program is already configured by default, but you can still make some more settings. To do this, in the "Tools" menu, click on the "Settings" item. Here you can make your own settings in the corresponding tabs, and I will focus on the settings in the "3D View" tab.
You can choose, if the power of your computer allows you, higher parameters for better display of satellite images. If you use higher parameters, the images will take longer to load, it also depends on the speed of your Internet connection. The higher the speed of the Internet connection, the faster images of the Earth will be downloaded to your computer.
In the graphics mode "DirectX" there will be a better display of images loaded by the program. You can experiment with the quality of the terrain display. I am using the program options shown in this image on my computer.
If you want the images not to be distorted when you zoom in, then go to the "Tools" => "Settings" => "Navigation" menu.
In the "Navigation" tab, uncheck the checkbox next to the item "Tilt automatically and enter the view from the ground", and then put a checkmark in the checkbox opposite the item "Do not tilt while viewing automatically". You can check the item "Gradually slow down the rotation of the Earth when turning or approaching." After that, click on the "OK" button.
In this article, I only talk about the main features of the program. You yourself can enter the menu items of the program and make the appropriate settings for your needs.
You can simply navigate the Earth satellite map in manual mode using the program control buttons, or simply with the mouse.
To look at space images, you will have to wait a little while the image is completely downloaded from the Internet. An image taken from a higher altitude loads faster.
To move to a specific geographic location, in the "Search" field you need to enter the name of the settlement. When you enter a name in the "Search" field, hints appear. You can add a street with a house number to the name of the city.
This, however, applies to large settlements. If the settlement is small, and it is located in a rural area, it is better to enter the name of a nearby city in order to get from it to the place of interest to you. Not all small settlements can be marked with text on images in the program.
The detail of satellite maps depends on the population of a particular area. More densely populated areas of the Earth have more detailed images than sparsely populated ones. Deserts, jungles and polar regions are not very detailed in the images.
Images of the Earth are gradually updated, in the lower right corner of the program window there is the date of the shooting of a specific location.
Traveling with Google Earth
In order to move to a specific place, you need to enter the name of this place in the "Search" field. Enter Niagara Falls in the Search box, and then double-click the Start Search icon next to it. The program will take you to the selected location.
In the image that opens, you will see what view Niagara Falls has from a height of 3.01 km.
You can get close to the waterfall and view it from all angles. In the image you can see the view of the waterfall from a height of already 604 meters. In this image, you can see many markings of the places from which the photographs were taken.
Other objects are also marked on the satellite images. These can be hotels, various institutions, attractions, large shops, historical monuments and much more. When you right-click on such an object, help information about that specific object appears.
When you click on the photo mark, you will see the photo taken from the marked place in the image. You can also add your own photos by uploading them to Panoramio photo hosting with the coordinates of the shooting location.
You can also see Niagara Falls from the other side by moving to a new location.
You can turn off the display of the marks of the taken photos on the loaded image. To do this, go to the "Side Panel" by clicking on the appropriate button. In the "Side Panel", in the "Layers" section, you will need to uncheck the box next to the "Photos" item. After that, the image will not have these marks.
If you want to remove all unnecessary information from the images, then in the "Layers" section, uncheck the checkbox opposite the "Main database" item, and then close the "Side panel".
In the "Layers" section, you can add or remove various effects, for example, the display of 3D buildings. Such displays of 3D buildings are available mainly for large cities, and mainly located in the United States and Western Europe.
In the image, near the famous Eiffel Tower, you can see not only cars, but even individuals standing near the tower. With the help of the program, you can also view historical photographs taken in this place.
Flight simulator in Google Earth
In Google Earth, you can simulate a flight on a virtual simulator by choosing an aircraft type. To do this, you need to enter the "Tools" menu, and then click on the "Enter the flight simulator" item.
In the "Flight simulator" window you can select the type of aircraft and the starting position to start the flight. After that, you need to click on the "Start flight" button.
Then you can fly over the ground in a virtual plane.
Viewing the surface of the Moon and Mars
With Google Earth, you can see the surface of the Moon and Mars. To do this, you need to click on the button with the image of the planet and select the appropriate item. Space photographs taken by the American agency NASA are used to image the surface of the Moon and Mars.
You can change the height of the Sun and therefore change the angle of incidence of the shadow. This image shows the surface of Mars.
If you select the item "Sky", then with the help of the program it will be possible to view the night sky and objects of the Universe on the map of the starry sky. In addition to the image, there are photographs taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Clicking on an object displays additional help information.
In some places you can go under water and see the relief of the seabed, if you check the appropriate boxes in the "Layers" section.
The program allows you to make sightseeing tours. In the Google Earth program, you can create your travels and save them for later viewing. To do this, check the appropriate items in the "Layers" section.
In the "File" menu, after clicking on the "View on Google Maps" item, you can view the plot of land you have selected using the service of the same name. To go back to the Google Earth program, you need to click on the "Back to Google Earth" button in the upper left corner.
Satellite photos can be saved to your computer. To do this, after you have selected the location for saving, simultaneously press the "Ctrl" + "Alt" + "S" buttons on the keyboard.
In the Explorer window that opens, select the location to save the image and give the image a name. After that click on the "Save" button.
The free Google Earth program can be used not only for entertainment, but also for practical purposes. For example, you are planning a vacation or going on a business trip. Previously, you can look at the place of interest using the Google Earth program.
After that, you will have a certain idea about this place, and you can choose a place for rest more consciously.
Conclusions of the article
With the help of the Google Earth program, you can look at any place in the world using satellite photos, and also find in the program the house in which you live or the place where you will go on vacation.
Google maps is a leader among modern mapping services that provide satellite interactive maps online. At least the leader in the field of satellite imagery and in the number of various additional services and tools (Google Earth, Google Mars, various weather and transport services, one of the most powerful APIs).
In the area of schematic maps, at some point this leadership was "lost" in favor of Open Street Maps - a unique mapping service in the spirit of Wikipedia, where every volunteer can enter data on the site.
However, despite this, the popularity of Google Maps remains perhaps one of the highest of all other mapping services. Part of the reason is that it is in Google Maps that we can find the most detailed satellite photos for the most extensive regions of any country. Even in Russia, such a large and successful company as Yandex. cannot surpass the quality and coverage of satellite photos at least in their country.
With Google Maps, anyone can view satellite photos of the Earth for free almost anywhere in the world.
Image quality
Images of the highest resolution are usually available for the largest cities in the world in America, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Asia, Oceania. Currently, high quality imagery is available for cities with a population of over 1 million inhabitants. For smaller cities and other localities, satellite imagery is only available in limited resolution.
Opportunities
Google Maps or "Google Maps" were a real discovery for Internet users and indeed for all PC users, giving an unheard-of and previously unheard-of opportunity to look at their home, at their village, cottage, lake or river where they had a rest in the summer - from a satellite. To see it from above, from such an angle, from which it would have been impossible to look under any other circumstances. The discovery, the very idea of giving people easy access to satellite photos, fits in harmoniously with Google's overall concept of "making it easy for all users to access any information on the planet."
Google maps allow you to see from a satellite at the same time those things and objects that cannot be observed simultaneously when observing from the ground. Satellite maps differ from ordinary maps in that on simple maps the colors and natural forms of natural objects are distorted by editorial revision for further publication. However, satellite photographs preserve all the naturalness of nature and objects of photography, natural colors, shapes of lakes, rivers, fields and forests.
Looking at the map, one can only guess what is there: a forest, a field or a swamp, while on a satellite photo it is immediately clear: objects, usually round or oval in shape, of a unique swamp color, are swamps. Light green spots or areas in the photo are fields, and dark greens are forests. With sufficient experience in navigating Google Maps, you can even distinguish between coniferous forest or mixed: coniferous has a brownish tint. Also on the map you can distinguish specific broken lines piercing forests and fields of immense Russian expanses - these are railways. Only by looking from a satellite can one understand that railways influence the natural landscape around them much more than highways. Also in Google Maps it is possible to superimpose maps with the names of regions, roads, settlements on a national scale and the names of streets, house numbers, metro stations on a city scale on a satellite image of a terrain or city.
Map Mode and Satellite View Mode
In addition to satellite images, it is possible to switch to the "map" mode, in which it is possible to view any territory on the surface of the Earth, and to study in detail the layout and location of houses of any more or less large city. In the "map" mode it is especially convenient to plan your movements around the city if you have already seen enough satellite views of your city.
The house number search function will easily point you to the desired house, giving you the opportunity to "look around" the area around this house and how you can approach / approach it. To find the necessary object, just type in Russian in the search bar a query like: "City, street, house number" and the site will display the location of the object you are looking for with a special marker.
How to use Google Maps
First, open a place.
To move around the map, left-click on the map and drag it in any order. To return to the original position, press the centering button located between the four directional buttons.
To enlarge the map - click on the button "+" or roll the mouse wheel when the cursor is over the map. You can also enlarge the map double click mouse in the place of interest.
To switch between satellite, mixed (hybrid) and map views, use the corresponding buttons in the upper right corner of the map: Map / Satellite / Hybrid.
Several applications can be used to monitor the Earth's surface and view satellite images online for free. In Russia, the most popular are two of them: Google Maps and Yandex Maps. Both services boast good quality high-resolution satellite imagery for most countries.
Yandex Maps is an online application from Russian developers, so the cities of Russia are more accurately worked out in it. It has built-in functionality for viewing traffic load data (large settlements), demographic and geodata. Google maps contain no less high-quality satellite images of the territory of the Russian Federation, but data on land plots and traffic are available only for the United States.
View a map of Planet Earth from the satellite online
Below you can see the built-in map from Google. For more stable operation of the plugin, we recommend using the Google Chrome browser. If you see an error message, please update the specified plugin and then reload the page.
Watch Google Earth from satellite, in real time online:
Another advantage of Google Maps is the presence of a client application for working with satellite images. This means that access to the service can be obtained not only through a browser, but also through a previously downloaded program. It has much more opportunities for viewing and studying satellite images, working with a three-dimensional virtual globe.
3D satellite map from Google (downloadable application, not online version) allows you to:
- use a quick search for the desired objects by name or coordinates;
- take screenshots and record high quality videos;
- work offline (preliminary synchronization via the Internet is required);
- use a flight simulator for more convenient movement between objects;
- save "favorite places" to quickly move between them;
- view not only the Earth's surface, but also pictures of other celestial bodies (Mars, Moon, etc.).
You can work with Google satellite maps through a client application or a browser. A plug-in is available on the official page of the program that allows you to use an interactive map on any web resource. It is enough to embed its address into the program code of the site. For display, you can select both the entire surface and a specific area (you will have to enter coordinates). Control - using a computer mouse and keyboard (ctrl + mouse wheel to zoom, cursor to move) or using the icons indicated on the map ("plus" - zoom in, "minus" - zoom out, move with the cursor).
Google Earth's service in real time allows you to work with several types of maps, each of which reflects certain data on satellite images. It is convenient to switch between them "without losing progress" (the program remembers where you "were"). Available view modes:
- satellite landscape map (geographic objects, features of the Earth's surface);
- physical map (detailed satellite images of the surface, cities, streets, their names);
- schematic geographic map for a more accurate study of surface imagery.
The satellite image is automatically uploaded in the vicinity, so a stable Internet connection is required to work. For Google Earth to work offline, you need to download an application for Windows or another operating system. For its operation, the Internet is also required, but only for the first launch, after which the program synchronizes all the necessary data (satellite images of the surface, 3D models of buildings, names of geographical and other objects) after which it will be possible to work with the received data without direct access to the Internet.
Is a very beautiful and functional virtual globe on the screen of your Android tablet or phone. The application, made in such a special interface, allows you to view Google maps and is a kind of continuation of Google Maps.
Screenshots of Google Earth →
This program contains a huge amount of information. It allows you to view various locations of the Earth from a bird's eye view, “walk” through three-dimensional cities, view photographs, and has many other features.
Google Earth features:
- A three-dimensional model of the planet Earth, allowing you to make virtual travel around the world.
- Possibility of three-dimensional "walks" along the streets of many famous cities in the world.
- Huge gallery of custom photos, allowing you to get a closer look at the place of interest to you in the world.
- Constant updating of maps with satellite and aerial images. Expansion of the base of three-dimensional cities.
- Functional navigation with automatic determination of the user's location on the map.
- Automatic display of photos of the most interesting sights located near the user, with their highlight on the map.
- Linking custom photos posted on Google Plus to geotagged locations on the map.
- Possibility to download additional maps.
- The virtual tour function allows you to view the most interesting places on Earth.
- The program for the phone allows you to view flight routes, earthquake maps and provides a lot of other useful information for the user.
Download Google Earth App on Android is completely free. We also have a version in Russian. The program has a very user-friendly interface and stylish design, which makes working with it even more interesting and enjoyable.
