A Google Earth Pro Alternative for Dated Satellite Imagery

Google’s help page states: "As of June 25, 2027, Google Earth Pro for desktop will no longer be available for download." In the linked announcement, the Google Earth team says you can continue using the desktop app, and that if you are an existing user or download it before June 25, 2027, you can keep using it "like you always have even past that date." What ends is new downloads.

Google Earth on the web and on mobile (Android and iOS). Google says the web version includes the desktop app’s most popular features, that historical imagery is available there, and that it recently added shapefile import, an elevation profile, and a flight simulator. Google also publishes a step-by-step guide for bringing KML/KMZ and My Places files into Google Earth on the web. If you want the Google Earth experience itself, that is the direct path.

Not a like-for-like one. Off-Nadir Delta is a 2D web map with an OpenStreetMap basemap: it has no Google basemap imagery, no 3D globe or terrain flythrough, no KML/KMZ import, no Google historical-imagery slider, and no print layouts or movie maker. What it does is different: it shows open Sentinel-2 optical and Sentinel-1 radar scenes by acquisition date, lets you compare those dates, overlays terrain and your own GeoTIFF or GeoJSON, and watches an area over time. If your use of Google Earth Pro was "what did this place look like on a given date, and has it changed", that is the overlap.

Coarser. Sentinel-2’s finest bands are 10 m, and the terrain layer is the 30 m Copernicus DEM (GLO-30). You will see fields, burn scars, flooding, construction sites and coastline change, not individual cars or rooftops. The trade-off is that each scene is a dated acquisition you can put next to another date, and Sentinel-1 radar sees through cloud and at night.

No. The map accepts GeoTIFF (including Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF) and GeoJSON; KML, KMZ and shapefiles are not accepted, so convert them to GeoJSON first (QGIS can do this). Google Earth on the web is the place that imports KML/KMZ directly.

There is a free plan. It includes Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 on the map, the terrain layer, GeoTIFF/GeoJSON upload, and one monitored area on the Watchlist; imagery rendering and processing are metered in tokens. VIIRS nighttime lights, NISAR radar and change detection are on paid plans. The map needs an account (a free one is enough); the in-browser GeoTIFF viewer on the GeoTIFF Upload page works without one. The pricing page has the current split.