Google Earth can serve plenty of purposes, and a lot of that comes from the great imagery that you can see of pretty much any place on the planet.

Using new, high-resolution global satellite maps of air quality indicators, scientists tracked air pollution trends over the last decade in various regions and 195 cities around the globe.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires caused decreased air quality in the central and northeastern U.S. this week — as seen in maps and satellite images that show the large-scale impact of the blazes.

An instrument aboard the Terra satellite has generated the most complete digital topographic map of the Earth ever made, covering 99% of the planet ...

DigitalGlobe is Google’s biggest vendor of satellite imagery, and the WorldView-3 will lead to significantly improved image quality. Most of Google Maps consists of 70 cm imagery; photos from ...

A major advance in satellite-based land surface mapping has led to the creation of more accurate and detailed maps of our cities. These maps provide urban planners with a better understanding of ...

It's time to tidy the garden: a new satellite belonging to DigitalGlobe will be launched into space tomorrow with the sole aim of taking images four times higher quality than currently possible ...

New NASA satellite images show how pollution levels have changed in the last decade in various regions and 195 cities across the world. CNN values your feedback 1.

US Satellite Imaging Rules Now Allow High-Quality Maps By JC Torres June 17, 2014 6:45 am EST Soon, you might be able to see that manhole on the road or you neighbor's mailbox across the street in ...