Satellite Pictures of My House
Written by Fraser Cain
NASA satellite map of the Earth
Thanks to the Internet and satellite imagery, every square meter of the Earth is being mapped out by satellites. These satellite images are available online, all you have to do is put in your address and you can see your house from above. Or you can browse around and look at any spot on Earth, for free. Next time you're wondering, can I see satellite pictures of my house, the answer is yes. Let's take a look.
Probably the best service available right now is Google Maps. You can access this service by going to maps.google.com, and then put in your street address. If Google can't locate your street address, you can always put in your zip/postal code, town or even state and it should be able to find it. Make sure you select the satellite overlay, so you can see an actual satellite image, and not just road maps.
Another service from Google is Google Earth. This is different from Google Maps because you have to download and install a software application to your computer. But once you do have this installed, you can look around the whole planet. It's very cool.
Another cool service is terraserver. With this application you can locate satellite images of your house and then print them off. You can also download high resolution images.
A big competitor to Google is Microsoft, and they have their Bing Maps service. Just like Google, you see satellite images of the whole Earth, and find satellite pictures of your house.
Keep in mind that none of these satellite services are live. There's nothing out there yet that lets you see the ground from space in real time. They're always images captured months or even years ago, and then stitched together into a larger image that you can scan around.
We have written many articles about using satellite images of Earth. Here's an article about Google Oceans and Google Mars, and how Google got a view of the Obama inauguration.
Filed under: Astronomy
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