Considering the fact that Indian talent is spreading around the globe like wildfire, it came no more a surprise when Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) recently launched ‘Bhuvan’, which is India’s answer to Google Earth. (Bhuvan in Sanskrit means ‘Earth’)Bhuvan is web-based tool much similar to Google Earth which promises to give much better 3-D imagery of India compared to what is being offered by Google Earth. It will also include a number of other services like weather forecast and have administrative boundaries of all the states and districts in the country.
Users will be able to browse the content like any other website. It will also allow users to zoom in from space to street, grab, spin and narrow down to anyplace they want. However for safety purposes it will block the sensitive locations such as military and nuclear plants. Bhuvan currently has the best resolution over the entire subcontinent of India and is also very user-friendly and will run even on low bandwiths.
Bhuvan will be able to produce very local information which will be very much specific to India. Also it will enable us to address problems like floods, famines, education, Research and Development and Infrastructure.Now owing to the recent goof-up Google Earth made by showing some parts of Arunachal Pradesh as Chinese Territory, the launch of Bhuvan will definitely get Google Earth on guard.
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