Bhuvan: ISRO’s Answer to Google Earth
Last updated: March 8, 2012 by Sarbjit+
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched ‘Bhuvan’ on August 13, 2009. It is being seen as a challenger to Google Earth (Bhuvan means earth, in Sanskrit). Developed in house Bhuvan will provide high resolution imagery which will be more accurate than Google earth. Google Earth can show details upto 200 metres while Bhuvan can show images upto 10 meters. India plans to use Bhuvan for real time analysis to predict and manage natural disasters and military operations.
How to Use Bhuvan?
To use Bhuvan, you will first have to fill a simple registration form at ISRO’s website:
http://bhuvan2.nrsc.gov.in/Bhuvan/WebClient/PresentationLayer/WebClient/usr_reg.asp
and then go to Bhuvan’s Home Page:
http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/
Bhuvan’s Features:
1. Users can fly to a location and can important places.
2. Provides Layers, 2D and 3D drawing, measurement tools, snapshot tools, etc
3. Bookmark locations using the draw tool to place an icon.
4. Does not have a downloadable client like Google Earth.
The response on first day was so overwhelming that the site went down and could not be accessed by many users.
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