Katharina B.
Stammgast
Da aber auch Google für sein Kartenmaterial auf immense Datenmengen angewiesen ist, verfügt der Konzern mittlerweile über seine eigene Satellitenflotte.
Aus https://maps.googleblog.com/2016/06/keeping-earth-up-to-date-and-looking.html:
Higher Quality Imagery
Landsat 8, which launched into orbit in 2013, is the newest sensor in the USGS/NASA Landsat Program—superior to its predecessors in many ways. Landsat 8 captures images with greater detail, truer colors, and at an unprecedented frequency—capturing twice as many images as Landsat 7 does every day. This new rendition of Earth uses the most recent data available -- mostly from Landsat 8 -- making it our freshest global mosaic to date.
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