Indian Space Agency released a beta version of Bhuvan today. It is named as an answer to Google Earth in blogsphere and GIS international news. Bhuvan in sanskrit (the oldest languge, from which Hindi, Nepali and some other regional languages evolved) means "Earth". The virtual earth is no more a Google Earth, it is just the Earth now when it comes to the digital world. Digital earth or Bing with its unique 3D capability, specially with Microsoft's own staff instead of crowd sourcing, is gaining more popularity. However, Google Earth has already become the everyday phenomena in "general Google it" public. In the crowd of these two major industry players, Bhuvan is a leap from the Indian Governmental presence in the digital world which also shows that India is now ready to "show off" its technical capability outside of "Outsouring Area".
Bhuvan contains very high resolution imagery in most part of India, and has high to medium resolution imagery of the world taken from various satellites including Cartosat-1 and Cartosat-2. Hosted from www.bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in, it can be a great success as this will have multilayer images and will be updated every year unlike Google Earth which updates about every four year, depending on the location.
Catch, I tried accessing the website, due to "high numbers of users on the site" , I really could not go too further. Maybe it was the bad time on the day. Anyway, I did discover that you need to fill out a mandatory form and have a user name for Bhuvan. I don't see it as a rival to Google or Digital Earth at any sense, however, the attempt to provide multi-resolution imagery for the people in those region is praiseworthy, as they are not as common as in North America and Europe. Keep in mind, it is still in beta version!!!I will update on the quality of it whenever I access it successfully!
Yes, like Google Earth and Digital Earth, Bhuvan also has the 3D capability!!!
Bhuvan contains very high resolution imagery in most part of India, and has high to medium resolution imagery of the world taken from various satellites including Cartosat-1 and Cartosat-2. Hosted from www.bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in, it can be a great success as this will have multilayer images and will be updated every year unlike Google Earth which updates about every four year, depending on the location.
Catch, I tried accessing the website, due to "high numbers of users on the site" , I really could not go too further. Maybe it was the bad time on the day. Anyway, I did discover that you need to fill out a mandatory form and have a user name for Bhuvan. I don't see it as a rival to Google or Digital Earth at any sense, however, the attempt to provide multi-resolution imagery for the people in those region is praiseworthy, as they are not as common as in North America and Europe. Keep in mind, it is still in beta version!!!I will update on the quality of it whenever I access it successfully!
Yes, like Google Earth and Digital Earth, Bhuvan also has the 3D capability!!!
