Incredible Satellite Images of Britain’s Traffic, Taxis, Internet and Phone Activity

Extraordinary satellite images reveal a different view of Britain – that of the connections between its citizens through vehicle traffic, internet activity and telephone activity. The latest technology was used to monitor Britain from the sky for a new BBC series, ‘Britain from Above’, which aired for the first time Sunday night.

From Mail Online:

Presenter Andrew Marr takes to the skies by plane, helicopter, microlight and even parachute to give viewers a bird’s eye view of landmarks across the UK.

The programme uses satellite data and the latest computer generated imagery to demonstrate how Britain keeps moving - tracking the planes that enter our airspace, the ships that cross the English Channel and the cars that travel our streets, all in the space of a single day.

Series director Cassian Harrison, said: ‘It has been amazing to work with cameras mounted on so many helicopters and planes.

‘The one disadvantage is that when we film we’re contending so much with the weather.

‘It has been a battle with the elements, but a brilliant one, working out how many different ways it is possible to get up in the sky and look down at the nation.’

Harrison went on to call it ‘Google Earth for real’. It really makes you think about much activity really goes on in the span of a single day, and how much more connected we are today than our grandparents were a half-century ago.

Link [Mail Online]

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