IntroductionGoogle Earth Engine Annual Timelapse consists of 29 cloud-free mosaics of the planet, made interactively explorable in part through use of the CMU CREATE Lab's Time Machine library, a technology for creating and viewing zoomable and pannable timelapses over space and time with billions of pixels of resolution.
Timelapse Tours consist of keyframes for dates and locations on the globe, plus the transitions between those keyframes. This document describes how to create, share, and embed Earth Engine Timelapse tours using the Earth Engine Annual Timelapse Tour Editor, hosted by CMU's CREATE Lab.
- This section demonstrates how to create a tour.
- Search
Use the search box to find interesting locations.
- Pan and Zoom
The editor contains a pannable and zoomable viewer. Scroll the mouse wheel for zooming. Drag the viewer for panning.
- Add keyframes
To create a tour, click on the "Add" button to add keyframes containing the information of current location and date.
Keyframe A keyframe contains the information of the location on the video panorama and the source time. The thumbnail shows the location. The text above the thumbnail indicates the source time.

- Adding captions to a keyframe
Click on the button on the bottom right of the keyframe to add and edit a caption.
- Play your tour
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