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.

Google makes its mapping products more informative and immersive with the use of imagery, and now the tech giant is giving us a deeper look into its map-making process. The tech giant says it has ...

The company said it was introducing a new cloud-free mosaic of the Earth's surface made up of high-resolution images taken by Landsat 8, a satellite deployed by the USGS and NASA in 2013.

Starting this week, Google is introducing sharper satellite imagery across Maps and Earth by leveraging its Cloud Score+ AI model that can recognize and remove clouds, cloud shadows, haze, and mist.

Google Earth and Maps now offer sharper images of the world, thanks to fresh data from NASA's newest Landsat satellite. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer June 28, 2016 at 4:31 a.m. PT ...

It’s unclear when Google Maps will debut satellite support, but Google is expected to start opening up this functionality with the Pixel 9 series, which is said to have better satellite support.

* 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.