Google camel view: Trekker camera documents Liwa Desert | Technology | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/10/google-camel-street-view-trekker-camera-documents-liwa-desert
Raffia the 10-year-old camel has become the very first animal to help with Google’s mapping missions, using one of the company’s Trekker cameras to capture the landscape of the Liwa Desert in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Raffia and her guide took to the sand as early as 6am in the morning to ensure the best lighting conditions. The resulting film and still photographs show the desert’s rolling sand dunes, an oasis, fellow camels, scuttling sand and some gangly camera-and-camel shadows.