Monday, January 10, 2011

Introduction to Google Earth

Google Earth is actually a virtual globe that provides the 3D view of the earth. Google Earth does this by taking the superimposition images which are taken from GIS 3D globe, Aerial Photography and Satellite Imagery. This web application is powered by Google as many of its other services like Google Maps. This application was originally created by Keyhole Inc which was later taken by Google in 2004. Google Earth was then again released in 2005 by Google.

Now this service is available for all personal computers having Windows Operation System latest from Window 2000, Linux Kernel having version so 2.6 or later, Mac OS X having version of 10.3.9 or later. In 2008 Google launched this service as a browser plugins. Soon after that this service was also made available to iPhone Operating Systems (iOS) for the mobile viewers. This service is now also available for the Android users.

Google Earth is a perfect tool to track phone locations as well.