Google Map’s Street View technology now plays a significant role in Google Maps as part of the new version 6 of the mapping software. Google Earth version 6 was released Monday giving new meaning to ...

The effects of climate change and our impact on Earth can be hard to visualize. Thanks to satellite imagery, we've been able to get a better sense of how our actions can affect our planet on a larger ...

Over the years, we’ve covered a variety of news stories about Bing Maps (formerly known as “Virtual Earth”). In particular, we were impressed with their “Version 2” cities that included thousands of ...

While exploring Google Earth’s 3D imagery, you will probably have noticed that even in the busiest cities, people are largely absent. This is because of the way the 3D imagery is captured. Based on ...

Satellites flying overhead in Earth’s orbit largely provide a two-dimensional view of our planet, but a Florida-based company is hoping to change that by using satellites to routinely build 3D maps of ...

Johnson’s Reef on the northwest shore of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands forms colorful peaks in this lidar image recorded by NASA’s Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) in ...

It’s time to add another treasure to our folder of enlightening scientific visualizations, which has grown thick over the past few years thanks in large part to researchers attempting to understand ...

Project Orbion brings together several cutting edge technologies to create a digital twin of the planet that will enable geospatial vision like we've never seen before.

Google has been on a roll with new features for its Maps service this week, from matching users to restaurants that they might like to adding battery percentage to location sharing. Rather than settle ...

It’s an oft-told story: The boom of space startups today can be traced to dramatically lowered cost in launch and satellite manufacturing over the past 10 years. But Array Labs, a two-year-old startup ...