NEW YORK \u2014 From rubble to rebirth, the live-streaming website EarthCam has documented the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site over the past quarter of a century through time-lapse imagery.<\/p>\n
It has now released a new documentary showcasing those 25 years of pictures in lower Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEarthCam was started as a way to really bring people together using live camera technology,\u201d Brian Cury, EarthCam\u2019s founder and CEO, told Spectrum News. \u201cFirst, we were doing entertainment events. And when the terror attacks occurred on Sept. 11, we were compelled to use this technology that we had, this webcasting technology, to be able to share that witness to the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe first started documenting the rescue and recovery efforts, and that led to the construction and rebuilding efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cury said that due to the size of the World Trade Center site \u2014 which is 16 acres and now features the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center building \u2014 panoramic time-lapse images seen on the EarthCam website are actually made up of thousands of photos stitched together.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at it day by day, it looks like a real slow, gradual effort,\u201d he said. \u201cBut when you look at the 25-year time lapse, you see the monumental, tremendous effort and the accomplishment that\u2019s taken place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not surprisingly, the technology has evolved considerably over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started out with maybe a twelfth of a megapixel, and now we\u2019re doing 80,000-megapixel imagery,\u201d Cury noted.<\/p>\n
The video showing the 25-year time lapse, along with EarthCam\u2019s documentary, \u201cWe Never Left,\u201d can be viewed at\u00a0EarthCam.com<\/a> and on YouTube<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 From rubble to rebirth, the live-streaming website EarthCam has documented the rebuilding of the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105,117,25,18917,18916,128335,9,11,10,12,110,380,282,27,200],"class_list":["post-342075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-top-stories","tag-ctv-for-your-consideration","tag-ctv-what-you-need-to-know-national","tag-josh-robin-chief-national-political-reporter","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nnt","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-technology","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}