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A web-based tool like Google Earth, Bhuvan promises to give better 3-D satellite imagery of India than is currently being offered by the US-based software giant plus a host of India-specific features like weather information and even administrative boundaries of all states and districts.
The application can be downloaded from http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/
The tool would offer pictures of the globe, just like Google Earth, and navigable in the same way but currently has the best resolutions over the Indian sub-continent. It allows users to fly from space to street level, grab, spin and zoom down to any place.
It also provides tools for measuring, drawing, saving, printing and visualizing thematic information. The resolutions currently on offer are good enough to view a vehicle moving on a road quite clearly.
Bhuvan currently only offers images taken between one and three years ago even over India. It combines satellite imagery from various sensors onboard IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) satellites and transposes them on a 3-D globe. As it keeps updating its database with more recent and higher resolution images, Bhuvan eventually promises to offer real-time data and images.
Incidentally, Indian authorities have had some problems in the past with Google Earth’s depiction of certain parts of the country. Recently, Google Earth admitted that it had mistakenly shown some areas in Arunachal Pradesh as part of Chinese territory and promised to correct the maps soon. The Indian government had earlier pulled up Google Earth for showing some sensitive and strategic defence locations on its maps.
Keeping in mind that its users will be mostly in India to begin with, Bhuvan is designed to be as “bandwidth-friendly” as possible and can run even on slow internet connections. However, as of now, it does not allow users to add their own data, like photographs or text, on to the images.
The beta version was released by Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan at a function organised by the Astronautical Society of India.
ISRO promises to add many more value-added functions and facilities including interactive systems to make it more user-friendly and effective information portal.
After the success of its moon mission, ISRO has set its sights on Mars. Today, it announced plans of sending a orbiter mission to Mars sometime after 2013.
ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair told reporters that feasibility studies for Mars mission had been completed and the scientific team was now evaluating the mission objectives and scientific proposals. He said the government had already sanctioned an initial amount of Rs 10 crore for the project.
The orbiter mission would be put into space by the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle.
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first i vl say the thanks to isro for lanchunig this service map,am really happy vth that isro lanching high quality vizual zooming map
I tried every thing with Bhuvan, but as quoted in TOI " you can zoom in to a 10Mt distance is totally false, its clear up to 300 mts, but as you come closer, the image becomes blurd.
by google earth mumbai teririst atack was take place, by bhuvan earth is any danger on us.
i didn't find anything in bhuvan! it is similar to google earth! we hav expected a lot about the bhuvan from the news given in newspapers! we hav disappointed about the bhuvan
i glade to launching new site
Cant see Any thing kept on trying for hours after reading it was better than Google but was very dishearted after our own BHUVAN
very nice
I am not able to see anything. It looks like a false propagenda like ramar petrol
I HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR THE LAST ONE WEEK TO SEE SOMETHING ON BHUVAN BUT NOTHING IS CLEAR. IT IS NO COMPARISON TO GOOGLE EARTH. WISH OUR NEWs MEDIA WOULD TEST THE PRODUCT BEFORE DOING THIS FALSE BRAGGING IN FRONT OF THE WORLD. HAS ANYBODY ABLE TO SEE YOUR HOUSE IN BHUVAN?
I could not find anything new with Bhuvan, Resolution is worse than the other two.I dont see any thing to boost off as an indian by seeing ISROs great work
Mistakenly Google Earth had shown the wrong borders and corrected it now. Launching Bhuvan as an answer to Google Earth with this incident in mind will no way help Indian Citizens. There are plenty of other essential areas to be addressed to help Indian Citizens.
Every technology has its bad effects also lets hope that isro has alerady ommitted the very impotant parts and places of our country from the list . Such as Airports , Nuclear Inastallations , Parliament House and Defence sites etc etc .... as terrorists are always waiting to strike our coutry with our own tools and weapons .... fingers crossed ..Jai Hind ...
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Resolution is worse than Google Earth !!
show map
it is a great endevuor by bhuvan ISRO
We are proud of ISRO.Salute to our scientist.
The Site does not open. If this is the standard its like wasting public money that is our money.
site works but noting good abt it... lot of compatibility issue with browsers, does not work on firefox and IE crashed while using the site...better let the private institution do this kind of job and ISRO do not waste citizens money on things that don't work
why don't our other agencies work like ISRO?public or private is not an issue if there is dedication.ambanis,airlines,oil companies and more, all have more complaints than work output.
Hum kisi se kum nahin! Congrats to ISRO! Hopefully all the golf courses in India will be mapped and we can know the exact distance using a GPS gadget every time we hit a stroke!
Jai ho....to ISRO
Really this is an answer to Google Earth.......
Kya bakwaas chizz hai yeh…works only with IE ,then it uses skyline technologies for software purpose .Third class product from ISRO .Google Earth ki Jai Hoo.They shoudn’t launched this thing without even getting closer to Google earth in first step .It isn’t even close google map .Not even 10 % .Made by an Indian doesn’t really mean to appretiate everything that Indians make .I hope ISRO really do something or else all the hype will be gone and not body will use it any more (as it is useless right now )
Three cheers!!!