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New Imagery in Google Earth

February 28th, 2009

Google Earth Blog reports a stack of new high resolution imagery in Google Earth today (Feb 28th 2009) USA, France, Scotland, Africa, Iceland, Mongolia + many other places. Check out Frank’s post for up to date details.
Typically there’s a delay of a few days between this appearing in Google Earth and Google Maps, which means [...]

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Satellite Collision Debris Tracking in the Google Earth Plug-in

February 23rd, 2009

Following on from my visualization of the satellite collision over Siberia on February 10th involving Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251, here’s an Google Earth browser plugin based tracker for the debris from the crash.
Full screen version here: http://barnabu.co.uk/geapi/debris
The application loads up to date Norad orbital elements on start up, and propogates the orbits of [...]

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Chrome support for the Google Earth Plugin

February 20th, 2009

Google has just announced, the Google Earth browser plugin is now officially supported by Google Chrome 1.0+. That means no more annoying ‘unsupported browser’ message for Chrome users. If you already have the plugin installed, you won’t need to download anything extra - should work automatically.
To give it a trial [...]

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Tours and 3D animation

February 19th, 2009

Looking around the various tech reviews of the new Google Earth 5, one new feature seems to have slipped under the radar - the KML tags describing the new touring function include a seriously powerful method for defining smooth motion 3d animation.
I’ve been messing around with this a little, and hacked together a few [...]

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Space Crash, Update

February 12th, 2009

Because you can never have too many ways to see the same thing. This is a browser based version of my satellite visualization from ealier today. Showing the February 10th coming together of US and Russian communication satellites, Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 over Siberia
Same idea as before, plots the locations of the [...]

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