Google Maps has a great deal of knowledge. how we can use it in scientific research
Google Earth gives the rules how to use // cite / acknowledge its spatial products.
In the near future many spatial products will be freely available through the Copernicus Program of the European Space Agency. These data will be acquires by the Sentinel satellites (to be progressively launched starting with 2014). Freely available b for everybody (research or commercial entity), everywhere on the planet, as GNSS signals already are.
The spatial resolution of these images will be not very high (as GE's images) but some of them will be high enough.
For example, Sentinel 2 will acquire at 20 m and 13 spectral bands, with a temporal resolution adapted for monitoring vegetation evolution.
This is not my area of expertise, but I found this newspaper article interesting:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/stunning-satellite-images-make-us-look-at-nature-north-korea-and-chipotle-as-never-before/?utm_term=.c726bc99b8c7
and this:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140226-north-korea-satellite-photos-darkness-energy/
Unfortunately, I can't recall the author or even the source of an article I saw using satellite images to determine the extent of war damage, and the state of the economy in war torn areas, but you should be able to find it if you're interested through and internet search.
you can read this experience
Article Academic Uses of Google Earth and Google Maps in a Library Setting
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