<p>I am working on a small creek in Colorado using historical imagery via Google earth. I want to know if the imagery date at the bottom of each image on google earth is the date the google acquired the image. Or, is it the date the satellite recorded it? </p>

<p>I came across this blog post online (<a href="https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-find-out-the-date-of-satellite-images-used-in-Google-Maps" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-find-out-the-date-of-satellite-images-used-in-Google-Maps</a>), which suggests that the two dates do not always match.</p>

<p>Does google provide metadata for imagery? Please advice.</p>

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2019-12-29T03:03:52.767Z
Could you provide in more detail what are you going to use with it when you download it ? What software ?
PROBERT
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2021-07-13T12:26:44.043Z
You can try [ESRI Imagery Wayback](https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback) it has images from 2014-present.
Padmanabha
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Google earth historical imagery date
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# Google earth historical imagery date

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-12-11)

I am working on a small creek in Colorado using historical imagery via Google earth. I want to know if the imagery date at the bottom of each image on google earth is the date the google acquired the image. Or, is it the date the satellite recorded it?

I came across this blog post online (<https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-find-out-the-date-of-satellite-images-used-in-Google-Maps>), which suggests that the two dates do not always match.

Does google provide metadata for imagery? Please advice.

**Tags:** remote-sensing

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Could you provide in more detail what are you going to use with it when you download it ? What software ?  
> **username_2**: You can try [ESRI Imagery Wayback](https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback) it has images from 2014-present.  

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