We will introduce you to Google Earth, which is a computer program, which was developed by a company called Google's American, whose function is to present a model that shows everything on the terrestrial globe.
It was built through a mosaic of satellite images, which are obtained in several aerial images, which are photographed by aircraft.
Therefore, the program that we are showing you can be used simply, as a map generator that shows all dimensions and satellite images or as a simulator of the different landscapes that we have on Planet Earth.
In this way, you can identify places, cities, landscapes, buildings and other elements. With this, we can see that the program is similar, but much more complex than the Google Maps application, which ends up offering you much more complex and informative data.
This application was formerly known as Earth Viewer, which was acquired by Google in 2004. But it was only named as Google Earth in 2005, this program works and is available for use on almost all computers.
This program is available with two different licenses to use, Google Earth has limited functions and Google Earth Pro which is a free application, which is used for commercial consumption only.
Google Earth Plus which costs $20.00 per year which has all the features that were canceled in 2008 for commercial reasons.
As it was known as Earth Viewer, Google Earth was developed by the company Keyhole, Inc, which was acquired in 2004 by Google.
This new name was only changed to the name Google Earth in 2005 and is currently being used and available for the use of several personal computers such as Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher, Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP and on the 12th of June 2006, a beta version for Linux was released.
Most major cities on the planet already have these availability in image mode with a very good resolution enough for you to visualize the houses, condominiums or even the closest details such as cars and all the places you want, so the entire terrestrial globe is covered with an approach of at least 15 kilometers, so you can analyze everything you want to find.
So Google made improvements to Keyhole customers and added several satellite imagery from the database to their web-based mapping software.
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Currently in the Google Earth program, it is allowing you to rotate an image and mark the places you were able to identify to visit these places further on, being possible for you to measure the distance between two points and even have a three-dimensional view of the places you want to search. .
In 2006 the program underwent changes in the images captured by satellite and a large part of the world already has its program in high resolution, even in small towns all the details are already available.
Thus, in Google Earth, it aggregates several images obtained from several sources, with satellite images from all over the planet and provides a geographic information system mode about a 3D globe.