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If you’re an Android Auto user you may have noticed the option to enable satellite view in Google Maps has disappeared in recent days. Previously appearing on the settings page, the option for ...

The new feature, announced in a Google blog post along with Street View updates, allows you to view historical satellite and ...

Satellite imagery and aerial data One of the foundational components of Google Maps is its use of satellite imagery. High-resolution images from satellites provide a bird’s-eye view of the world ...

A collaboration between Google Research, the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance, Silicon Valley's Muon Space, and Intel's Moore Foundation, this satellite constellation aims to spot and track each ...

According to Google, current satellite systems rely on low-resolution imagery and cover a particular area only once every 12 hours to spot significantly large wildfires spanning a couple of acres.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanked Elon Musk’s SpaceX for launching their first FireSat satellite over the weekend. FireSat is a satellite project by Google, built to detect and track wildfires ...