Google Employs Camel to Take Liwa Desert Street View Imagery

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Stan Schroeder
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Google Employs Camel to Take Liwa Desert Street View Imagery
A camel is equipped with Street View Trekker to take imagery of the Liwa Desert in UAE. Credit: Google Arabia

We've seen Google place its Trekker -- a special type of camera for taking 360-degree visuals -- on a car, bicycle or even a snowmobile.

But to take Street View imagery of the Liwa Desert in the United Arab Emirates, Google placed the Trekker on a camel, which the company claims was a way to minimize the disruption of the desert environment.

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You can check out the resulting imagery -- which includes 82-131-foot-tall dunes, and the largest oasis in the Arabian peninsula -- here.

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Liwa Desert, United Arab Emirates. Credit: Google Street View

You can also check a video showing how the imagery was produced, above. It's short but sweet, given it's one of the rare YouTube videos available in 4K resolution.

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