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[Blwe_torch]

Launching Bhuvan: ISRO’s answer to Google Earth, zoom into states, districts
Amitabh Sinha

Posted: Thursday , Aug 13, 2009 at 0903 hrs
New Delhi:
 
Google Earth’s got some competition now — from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which today unveiled its beta version of Bhuvan (meaning earth in Sanskrit).

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.

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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.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Launching-Bhuvan--ISRO-s-answer-to-Google-Earth--zoom-into-states--districts/501578

[Blwe_torch]

Kindly report issues in launching this application, if any.
I am unable to search for India anyway, although this one happens to be a more India specific software.

[teamindia]

This is nowhere near Google earth. The resolution even for big cities is not up to the mark. Google has better resolution up to street and house level.
There are not many informational layers, whereas Google has already built tons of informational layers on the satellite images.
Google also has "Street Views" for most of the world's big cities.

This is another joke like the "$10 laptop".