http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Others/Stitch-Maps.shtml

Stitch Maps : Use this software (license $45.00 USD)

You can download a large area with fine details.

You can use Universal Maps Downloader. The following YouTube may give you a good indicator of how to use Universal Maps Downloader.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8lL_J5hTFM

Thanks Sailesh and Yaseen, are there no copyright issues with this? Google earth allows download? But I am aware that most of the satellite data vendors don't allow the users to freely pass images. We should check with google policy is on this.

Don't worry about copyright. Google earth provide real color (true color) satellite image information, not the SFCC version.

If you are having your Google earth license version s/w....then there is no problem.

Thanks

You can't. First of all GE images are only RGB renderings, so you are not looking to true DNs of the original images. The NIR band also is not available at all, and the original 2m spatial resolution is also a bit reduced. I'm not considering license that also adds a few strong limitiations of use for those images. In brief, they are not usable for remote sensing applications, but are still interesting for object recognition and visual applications at large scale (e.g. pattern recognition and computer vision methods)

Ha ha ha...... for original satellite image (including all bands having proper DN) we look for different image supplier, and sometime free download site like GLCF (old dataset). Google earth data.....real/true picture of earth. Question was how to download? Yes you can download using before-said S/W.

Yes please explain how the S/W down functions.

Interesting to see all the above answers. All the mentioned tools are too slow for downloading imagery of 1 m resolution. Certainly, more efficient tools exist. But if you download GE imagery it would only be images with RGB values as Francesco Lovergine rightfully mentioned. Therefore, you can use this material just for tracing or as a backdrop image to support your vector map however; it will be clearly violation of copyrights.

Try with Google earth pro S/W.. But you have to save the image (ROI) title by tile and then you have to mosaic it. Unlike Google earth, GE Pro offers higher spatial resolution. Be sure that DN values are rendered one.

for collecting ground data, i need Quickbird images. can you explain in details about getting these images from google earth?

You can use Elshayal Smart GIS

http://www.mediafire.com/download/b5ei5kq1e0gmv6v/Elshayal+Smart+GIS+515a.zip

You need to download manually tile by tile. The software can combine the small tiles together. 

I am not sure if you can download image directly form Google Earth Pro. You can download it free using GEPFREE licence code.

there are a lot of free sample images that you can download them from internet.

just google it

some time google earth images some are not new