Google Earth Pro Tutorial for Beginners

You already download and install Google Earth on your computer, open it, and explore now. Scroll to your mouse Zoom in and Zoom out of the Globe and view the beautiful earth’s surface in 3D.

Find any place or area with latitude and longitude and also images.

Use keyboard shortcuts to navigate Google Earth

Manu

The menu bar on Google Earth Desktop is a significant feature as it allows users to access several options, including Open, Save, Export, Import, and more.

Toolbars

The toolbar at the top of the Google Earth interface gives access to a variety of features provided on Google Earth.

1. Show/Hide Sidebar
2. Add Place mark
3. Add Polygon
4. Add Path
5. Add Image Overlay
6. Record a Tour
7. Show historical imagery
8. Show Sunlight
9. Explore Earth/Sky/Mars/Moon
10. Ruler
11. Email
12. Print
13. Save Image
14. View in Google Maps
15. View in Google Earth Web

Sidebar

Google Earth has a sidebar located on the left-hand side of the screen.

Search:

The Search module, located at the top, can look up places.

Places:

The Places module, situated in the middle, is where location information is saved and organized.

Layers:

The Layers section at the bottom includes helpful options that can be checked for viewing purposes.

To access Road, Broders, photos, terrain, etc options in Layers Panel, simply check the box.

If you can’t see any feature, just check off the Box. It is help you to what you can see or not.

Search Place

Open Google Earth, Search for any place in the Search box, and find your place.

Save image

Save any images in JPEG (.jpg) Format, click Save Image Button > set Resolution. Select high resolution (1080 HD, 4K UHD, etc) then select Save Image > choose your Folder > write Name > OK.

Set Map options > You can set Title, Legend, Scale, Compass (North line), etc. Also setting styling, 3 options are available (i) Full-Color Base Map, (ii) Desaturated Color Base Map, and (iii) Gray scale Base Map.

Sunlight Effect Across the Landscape

The sunlight effect on earth’s surface, and you can view Day, evening, and also Night-Time. Use the time slider to set the time of day. Click to show sunlight and view it.

Historical Imagery

Select the show historical imagery button, open slide box > slide left to Right, and automatically change the year and also day and time. You can save different period images (ex.- The California state university, 1994 and 2020).

Create Polygon (Area), Path (Line), Placemark (Point)

Create Polygon, Path, or Placemark click to Add menu > dropdown, and select your requirement.

You can create Folder, Polygons, Path, Placemark, etc in Google Earth Surface.

Polygon (Area)

Select a polygon and digitize an area or place. Also, you can change the style, color, and measurement area.

Path (line)

Select Path and Digitized Road, Railway, River, etc. Also, change the style, color, and measurement of road length.

Placemark (point)

Choose a place mark and Digitized any place, like School, Hospital, etc. Show Latitude and Longitude values.

Edit any features (polygon, path, or place mark), select feature into Places Panel > Right Click > Properties. Now edit, change color, symbol, style, etc.

KML & KMZ File

Complete edit, now time to save as or export the data.

Two Format available to save as option (i) KML (Keyhole Markup Language) and (ii) KMZ (Keyhole Markup language Zipped). These two formats use GIS Softwares.

Google Earth explores not only Earth but view to Sky, Mars, and Moon.

Learn more Google Earth Pro Tutorials

Explore Google Earth Web

Create DEM & Contour from Google Earth

Google Earth Studio

Google Earth Engine