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Giza pyramid complex (map) Aerial view from north of cultivated Nile valley with the pyramids in the background (1938) Pyramids of Ghizeh. 1893. Egypt; heliogravure after original views. Wilbour Library of Egyptology. Brooklyn Museum The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx of Giza in 1914 (Autochrome Lumière) The complex in 1955 View from top of the Great Pyramid to the Pyramid of Khafre The ...
Charon (/ ˈkɛərɒn, - ən / KAIR-on, -ən or / ˈʃærən / SHARR-ən), [note 1] formal designation (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto. It has a mean radius of 606 km (377 mi). Charon is a planetary-mass moon and the sixth-largest known trans-Neptunian object after Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Gonggong. [19] It was ...
Satellite image of North Korea in December 2002. Captured by NASA with the Aqua satellite. Satellite imagery in North Korea is a knowledge-building tool in the field of North Korean studies. It enables researchers to produce data-based analyses in the agricultural, humanitarian, economic and military fields, in a country where access to the field is limited.
INS Vikramaditya (lit. 'Valour Comparable to the Sun') [note 1] is a conventionally powered STOBAR aircraft carrier currently serving as the flagship of the Indian Navy. It is a modified Kiev class aircraft cruiser purchased from Russia and entered into service in 2013. [19] Originally built as Baku and commissioned in 1987, the carrier served with the Soviet Navy and later with the Russian ...
Bing Maps for Enterprise (previously Microsoft Virtual Earth) is a geospatial mapping platform produced by Microsoft. It allows developers to create applications that layer location-relevant data on top of licensed map imagery.
NASA World Wind, USGS topographic maps and several satellite and aerial image datasets, the first popular virtual globe along with Google Earth. World Wind is open-source software (NOSA). NORC is a street view web service for Central and Eastern Europe. OpenWebGlobe, a virtual globe SDK written in JavaScript using WebGL.
The project originated for two main purposes: INSPIRE (Infrastructure for spatial information in Europe) European directive and ADELE French programme aim at the development of on-line administrative information; the success of other online projects like Google Maps, in which navigation in maps and satellite views is possible.
Google Street View is the most comprehensive street view service in the world. It provides street view for more than 85 countries worldwide. Apple Look Around provides street view for 36 countries. Microsoft Bing Streetside [1] offered street view via right click in Bing Maps. The Mapillary project collects crowdsourced images from its users, which are licensed under a CC BY-SA license. [2 ...