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GeoWhisperer - See How the World Has Changed

Since 2012, the London Legacy Development Corporation has gradually transformed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from an essential local green space into a high-density residential hub driven by foreign investment. The before-and-after aerial imagery above provides a striking illustration of how the landscape of the Olympic 'park' is being built over. This before and after image was created in a matter of seconds by  GeoWhisperer . GeoWhisperer is a new tool from Henk van Ess that attempts to take some of the guesswork out of comparing satellite imagery. Designed for OSINT researchers, journalists and visual mappers, it automatically searches historical satellite imagery and uses AI to identify physical changes between different dates. Enter a location using coordinates, a place name or a map link and GeoWhisperer searches Esri's World Imagery Wayback archive for suitable aerial imagery. You can also upload your own recent geotagged photograph (with the image being process...

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