Creating Ground-level Views from Satellite Imagery

Many techniques, using statistics or artificial intelligence, exist that help classify and identify areas on satellite imagery. This includes land use characteristics such as urban spaces, agriculture lands, forests, etc. However, recreating a ground-level image and perspective using satellite imagery has only recently been developed and is now an active area of research. Such work has the potential to not only classify land more accurately but it can also provide a ground-level perspective that indicates how it differs or is like other similar classes. One pioneering technique developed in providing ground-level views from satellite images was developed by the University of California, Merced.