Friday 24 May 2013
Google Maps to offer panoramic images of The Galapagos Islands
Posted on 00:09 by Maria Scott
Google has over the months continued to
enhance its Google Maps Street View experience with panoramic images of
the world's exquisite destinations. It recently added Grand Canyons and Everest, and now the latest to appear in Google's Street View panorama will be The Galapagos Islands.
Google in a detailed blog post
revealed it is collecting imagery of the Islands, which includes
Underwater Street View photography. The visual content is expected to
appear on Google Maps later this year.
Google
further says the biodiversity of the Islands inspired Charles Darwin to
come up with the theory of evolution. Now taken care by Ecuador, the
local government and conservationists are working together to rotect the
Galapagos from threats posed by invasive species, climate change and
other human impacts.
The Internet company tied up with the
Ecuadorean government, the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF), the
Galapagos National Parks Directorate (GNPD), and the Catlin Seaview
Survey to gather panoramic images of the Islands. For above-ground
images, Google used is Street View Trekker while the coastal shelf were
captured by Catlin Seaview Survey team, which has also teamed with
Google, using three SVII cameras on its diver-operated, motorized
underwater scooter.
“Our 10-day adventure in the Galapagos was full of hiking, boating and
diving around the islands (in hot and humid conditions) to capture
360-degree images of the unique wildlife and geological features of the
islands with the Trekker. We captured imagery from 10 locations that
were hand-selected by CDF and GNPD. We walked past giant tortoises and
blue-footed boobies, navigated through steep trails and lava fields, and
picked our way down the crater of an active volcano called Sierra
Negra,” said Google in a blog post.
“Life underwater in the Galapagos is just as diverse as life on land. We
knew our map of the islands wouldn’t be comprehensive without exploring
the ocean that surrounds them. So for the second time we teamed up with
the folks at the Catlin Seaview Survey to collect underwater panoramic
imagery of areas being studied by CDF and GNPD. This imagery will be
used by Catlin Seaview Survey to create a visual and scientific baseline
record of the marine environment surrounding the islands, allowing for
any future changes to be measured and evaluated by scientists around the
world.”
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