A new experiment has been launched on the International Space Station - High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV). 4 HD cameras were installed on the ISS; the satellite broadcasts the image online in real time. Everyone can feel like an astronaut and look at our planet from space!
HD cameras are sealed in a temperature-controlled housing. While the experiment is in operation, views are typically sequential, albeit from different cameras. Between switching cameras, a gray color or black background appears. When the ISS is in shadow, the video may be interrupted, keep an eye on the map to stay informed. Analysis of this experiment will be conducted to evaluate the impact of the space environment on hardware and video quality for future missions.
A dark screen means the International Space Station is on the night side of planet Earth. If you see a gray background in the video, it means that switching between cameras is currently taking place, or communication with the ISS is not available.
Enjoy watching!
Planet Earth from satellite in real time
Earth map online
Below on the map you can see online where the ISS is currently located in the orbit and, accordingly, what the cameras on it are broadcasting.
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grudeves_vf97s8ycThe public cadastral map, displayed with an overlay of satellite photographs (as of 2015), is a nationwide resource containing information about real estate. In general, this is a huge photograph of the country, assembled from many small photographs taken from space as part of the Esri or Scanex projects. The image is composed taking into account the global coordinate system. The main purpose of the service is to provide open (free) access to cadastral information to an unlimited number of users - ordinary citizens, realtors, lawyers, employees of surveying firms, and others. Since the implementation of the project in 2010, the procedure for obtaining cadastral information has been significantly simplified.
Information content of the resource
A public cadastral map from a satellite is the result of the work of many cadastral engineers employed by Rosreestr. With its help, you can find an object on the ground and recognize it:
- 1 – cadastral number;
- 2 – address;
- 3 – area;
- 4 – cadastral value that will be used for taxation;
- 5 – form of ownership.
If necessary, you can:
- 1 – receive and print a plan of the land plot and the corresponding cadastral quarter;
- 2 – clarify the category of lands, their boundaries and intended purpose;
- 3 – determine the location and boundary lines of neighboring objects;
- 4 – find out the details of the Rosreestr division that stores information about the object of interest;
- 5 – obtain information about capital construction projects. In addition to the above data, you can find out the number of storeys of the building, including underground, wall material, dates of commissioning and completion of construction, name of the contractor and his Taxpayer Identification Number;
- 6 – send a request to the State Property Committee, Unified State Register, obtain data about the object online.
Summary
A public cadastral map from a satellite is a unique tool that allows you to get an idea of where the property of interest is located, what its boundaries are, and what objects it is adjacent to. The resource is necessary to determine the location and status of land plots. This is very important when resolving controversial issues: for heirs, notaries and honest citizens defending their rights.
Many users would like to enjoy the satellite map of Russia online, see any memorable places with which many bright and colorful memories are associated. Various network services that provide this opportunity in real time can help with this. In this material, I will tell you where online you can look at maps of Russia from a satellite, and which network services are the best in 2018.
On the Internet you can find a large number of services that provide the opportunity to view the territory of Russia using photos taken from a satellite. The variety of such services should not be misleading - most of them use the API from Google Maps, some use the capabilities of Yandex.Maps, and a few use maps from the Bing service from Microsoft.
Working with such services is quite simple.
At the same time, a number of services (the same Google Maps and Yandex.Maps) allow you to use the “street view” mode, in which you can virtually walk along selected streets, enjoying the view around you.
Let's consider services that allow us to see a map of Russia from a satellite online.
Google Maps - viewing Russian cities from satellite
The most popular mapping service in the world is Google Maps. It includes a mode for displaying the Earth's territory from a satellite, a street map (including a 360-degree panoramic view). Also, the state of street traffic in real time, planning optimal routes (for pedestrians, cyclists, car drivers), and other convenient features. To view the most popular and beautiful places on our planet, Google has created a service in which a panoramic view is available.
In order to open a map of Russia from a satellite in Google Maps at the bottom left, switch to satellite map display mode. Then, in the search bar, enter the name of the toponym you need in Russia, and press enter (or find it with the mouse).
To enable street view mode, there is a button with a hand-drawn yellow man at the bottom right.
Google Maps is the most visited map service in the world
Yandex.Maps - the best satellite map of Russia
Yandex.Maps is one of the most popular mapping services in Russia. Its popularity among the Russian audience is not surprising - the service boasts the highest frequency of data updates for Russia compared to its competitors (which is especially important for displaying traffic jams). At the same time, its functionality, in addition to satellite maps and the “Street Panoramas and Photography” mode (similar to Google’s Street View mode), includes a tool called “People’s Map”, which is a crowdsourcing data collection system in which each user can edit the map (with condition of moderation).
- To view Russia from a satellite, go to the yandex.ru service.
- In the search bar on the left, you can enter the data of the geographic location you need, or find the establishment you need nearby by clicking on the corresponding button.
- To switch to Street View mode, click on the “Street Panorama and Photos” button at the bottom right.
The initial screen of the service from Yandex makes it possible to quickly find the desired establishment nearby
Infokart.ru – detailed map with views of streets and houses
The domestic service infokart.ru is good primarily because it combines on one page of the site both the functionality of the Bing satellite maps from Microsoft and maps of the non-profit web map project OpenStreetMap.org, allowing you to view maps of Russia from a satellite online.
By going to the infokart.ru service page, you can enjoy both satellite maps of Russia and a detailed map of many Russian cities.
Wikimapia with details down to cities and houses
The international project "Wikimapia" is an online geographical encyclopedia that combines the API from Google.Maps with the principle of free data editing adopted by Wikipedia. The founders of the project were domestic developers Alexander Koryakin and Evgeny Savelyev in 2006. Now the project unites more than 2.5 million users who have entered information about tens of millions of objects into the system database.
The goal of the project is to collect and organize data about geographic objects, information about which can be obtained by anyone.
- To use the site, go to wikimapia.org.
- Select the Russian interface at the top (instead of EN - RU), then in the search bar on the right, enter the name of the object you need to view it.
- To enter your own data (the “Add object” button), or edit existing ones (the “Edit” button), you will need to register in the system.
- The “Categories” button will allow you to search by the desired category (shops, stadiums, hotels, parks, etc.).
Maps-online.ru – cataloged map service
A special feature of the maps-online.ru card service is properly cataloged information. When you go to the resource, you can select the region of Russia you need, then the region, and the locality.
During the viewing process, you can also choose which satellite maps you need - from Google or from Yandex.
Conclusion
Using the services I have listed, you can easily view maps of Russia from a satellite online. All you have to do is launch the service you like, type the name of the desired locality in the search bar, and then view the resulting image, zooming in or out using the mouse wheel. To display Russia, I can recommend maps from Yandex - they have a high level of detail and good frequency of updated data.
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Google Map is one of the most popular services today. It provides users with the opportunity to observe our planet (and not only) from a satellite online in high quality and in real time (sights of the planet in). At some point, the primacy of the schematic map view was captured by the Open Street Maps application. Where everyone in the know can edit a map in Wikipedia style, but this does not change anything and today Google Maps is the most popular online map service. The popularity of this company's maps has been in first place for many years due to the good quality of satellite images in every corner of the planet; even Yandex could not provide such quality in its homeland.
Google Maps online
Google continues to improve its brainchild in the form of visualization of our planet, improving the quality and detail of surfaces. More recently, the company has improved its services using the new Landsat 8 satellite, which can photograph the surface of planet Earth with a resolution of 15/30/100 meters per elemental point. The database of satellite images in real time was previously updated only in 2013. At that time, the application used images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite, which was also known for introducing some bugs and glitches into the maps. To compare the quality of images taken by different satellites, pay attention to the screenshot below.
Images taken by different satellites
In the examples given on the screen you can see that the image of the new satellite shows not only improved detail of earthly objects, but also more natural colors. Representatives of Google announced that about 700 trillion pixels of graphic data were spent on assembling a mosaic of the earth's surface of a new generation. Almost 43 thousand powerful computing machines in the Google cloud worked for a week on gluing together pictures.
How to use Google Maps online
Anywhere in the world you can use Google Maps online in high quality using your tablet, mobile phone or computer. Just follow the link https://google.com/maps/ or use the embedded map below and you can find the country, city, and even the route to the museum by entering the desired search parameters. And for mobile devices you can download a special application that is more convenient to use.
To find the way to a laundromat or a cafe that you often visit, simply enter the addresses in the program line and you will no longer need to enter this data every time. At the same time, you can not only view the route to the establishment, but also get acquainted with information that relates to this establishment, for example, opening hours, contact details, etc.
Let's try using Google's satellite map 2018 as an example.
- Go to the website or open the app on your mobile device.
- All you have to do is point or touch on the touch screen and you can view the details of that area.
- In order to find out the distance between cities, right-click on one of them and select “Measure distance” from the drop-down menu. Now the second point can be specified with the left mouse button. If necessary, you can drag the point with the mouse to another location, and the distance information will be updated.
- To select the “Relief”, “Bike Paths”, “Traffic” mode - select the menu sign (three stripes) and press the desired option. If you are using Apple devices, click on the diamond icon with a layer and also on the desired option.
- To take advantage of high quality 3D images, click on the quad in the lower left corner. It will say "Satellite", if you need to return to map mode, press it again.
- To select Street View mode, drag the yellow man to the desired area of the map or simply enter the exact location in the query bar, preferably including your home address.
- Google Maps high resolution allows you to view streets in historical mode, i.e. how they have changed over time. To do this, throw the little man to the desired place on the map. Select the clock icon and move the time slider to select the desired date.
Amazing Facts About Google Maps
Features and benefits of online maps in real time
From the first days, Google Maps became a revelation for all users. They made it possible to look at cards in a new way, to pay new attention to this tool in general. Everyone who accessed the Internet back in 2005 wanted to immediately use online maps and see their city or country from a satellite.
It seems unthinkable, but today it is possible to view other planets of the solar system in the Google Maps application!
Planets in Google Maps
To do this, go to the web version of the program and zoom out the Earth image with the mouse wheel to the maximum. Other planets will appear in the block on the left that you can select to view. There are all the planets of the solar system and several additional satellites. For example, Callisto is a satellite of Jupiter. True, the photographs do not allow us to look at other planets as closely and in detail as happens with the Earth.
Google Maps from satellite in 2018 will allow you to view the surface of the earth and populated areas in excellent quality, which cannot be done using a regular map. When drawing up paper and other versions of maps, natural colors, clear contours of the banks of rivers, lakes, colors of areas of the earth and other color schemes are omitted, which is why we have poor orientation. Having looked at a desert area on a regular map, one can only guess what kind of vegetation or relief there is. By accessing Google Maps in real time, you can even see the color and shape of the fence at any address on another continent.
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Google Maps is a leader among modern mapping services that provide satellite interactive maps online. At least a leader in the field of satellite imagery and in the number of various additional services and tools (Google Earth, Google Mars, various weather and transport services, one of the most powerful APIs).
In the field of schematic maps, at some point, this leadership “was lost” in favor of Open Street Maps - a unique mapping service in the spirit of Wikipedia, where every volunteer can contribute data to the site.
However, despite this, the popularity of Google Maps remains perhaps one of the highest of all other mapping services. Part of the reason is that Google Maps is where we can find the most detailed satellite photos for the largest regions of any country. Even in Russia such a large and successful company as Yandex cannot surpass the quality and coverage of satellite photographs, at least in its own country.
With Google Maps, anyone can view satellite photos of the Earth for free almost anywhere in the world.
Image quality
The highest resolution images are usually available for the largest cities in the world in America, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Asia, Oceania. Currently, high-quality images are available for cities with a population of more than 1 million inhabitants. For smaller cities and other populated areas, satellite imagery is only available in limited resolution.
Possibilities
Google Maps or “Google Maps” was a real discovery for Internet users and indeed all PC users, giving an unheard of and previously unseen opportunity to look at their home, their village, cottage, lake or river where they vacationed in the summer - from a satellite. To see it from above, from a perspective from which it would be impossible to see it under any other circumstances. The discovery, the very idea of giving people easy access to satellite photos, fits harmoniously into Google's overall vision of “easily providing everyone with access to any information on the planet.”
Google Maps allows you to see from a satellite simultaneously those things and objects that cannot be observed at the same time when observed from the ground. Satellite maps differ from ordinary maps in that on simple maps the colors and natural forms of natural objects are distorted by editorial processing for further publication. However, satellite photographs preserve all the naturalness of nature and the objects being photographed, natural colors, shapes of lakes, rivers, fields and forests.
Looking at the map, one can only guess what is there: a forest, a field or a swamp, while on satellite photography it is immediately clear: objects, usually round or oval in shape, with a unique swamp color, are swamps. The light green spots or areas in the photograph are fields, and the dark green ones are forests. With enough experience in orientation in Google Maps, you can even distinguish whether it is a coniferous forest or a mixed forest: coniferous has a browner tint. Also on the map you can distinguish specific broken lines piercing the forests and fields of the vast Russian expanses - these are railways. Only by looking from a satellite can one understand that railways have a much greater influence on the natural landscape surrounding them than roads. Also in Google Maps, it is possible to overlay maps with the names of regions, roads, settlements on a national scale and the names of streets, house numbers, metro stations on a city scale on a satellite image of an area or city.
Map mode and satellite view mode
In addition to satellite images, it is possible to switch to the “map” mode, in which it is possible to view any territory on the surface of the Earth and study in detail the layout and location of houses of any more or less large city. In the "map" mode it is especially convenient to plan your movements around the city if you have already seen enough satellite views of your city.
The search function by house number will easily point you to the desired house, giving you the opportunity to “look around” the area around this house and how you can drive up/approach it. To search for the required object, just type in Russian in the search bar a query like: “City, street, house number” and the site will display to you the location of the object you are looking for using a special marker.
How to use Google Maps
To begin, open some place.
To move around the map, left-click on the map and drag it in any order. To return to the original position, press the centering button located between the four direction buttons.
To enlarge the map, click on the button "+" or roll the mouse roller when the cursor is over the map. You can also enlarge the map double click mouse in the location you are interested in.
To switch between satellite, mixed (hybrid) and map views, use the corresponding buttons in the upper right corner of the map: Map / Satellite / Hybrid.
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