Google has introduced a new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations that it says can function like a "virtual satellite." ...

Google has updated the quality of its imagery in both Google Earth and Google Maps' satellite view with new imaging technology from the Landsat 8 satellite.

In 2005, Google’s exec team (Larry, Sergey, etc) had a weekly product review meeting. We had launched Google Maps in February, and by summer, we’d integrated satellite imagery from our Keyhole ...

Most of Google Maps consists of 70 cm imagery; photos from the WorldView-3, as they’re added to Google Maps, will make imagery much sharper.

* This post originally stated that Google added 700 trillion pixels of data to its satellite map layer. In fact, it analyzed 700 trillion pixels of data to create a 1.5-trillion-pixel final product.