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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Bhuvan - One more step towards perfection

Congratulations ISRO !!!

After a long wait Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) launched their first Geo-portal Bhuvan which will definitely prove Indian Imaging capabilities in Multi-sensor, Multi-platform and Multi-temporal domain. Bhuvan is a satellite mapping tool very similar to Google Earth(GE).
Beta Version of Bhuvan was launched on 12th August 2009 and I tried real hard to become one of the initial users. But due to heavy load I got success very late and registered myself to download Bhuvan plug-in on 14th August (A day before India's Independence Day).
I have used GE for hundreds of hours and when I used Bhuvan my mind started comparing both of them. No doubt GE is the best till date but supremacy does not remain constant. Bhuvan is really gonna be a tough competitor for GE because Bhuvan is concentrating only on India's landscape which is its birth place.
Bhuvan will provide more features than GE for India-specific users. It will provide enhanced quality street by street coverage and resolution up to 5 meters which is quite impressive. Along with that it will provide useful data about climate, weather and allows easy measuring and scaling and one-click snapshot of maps. There are many enhancements needs to be done with respect to the expectation level which is already at a very high level due to GE.
We all should Register it, download it and use it and give feedback to make Bhuvan The Best.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Satellite Trackers

There are many webpages over the Internet which provide Satellite tracking facility. But you have to waste a lot of time to find the one that suites your liking. During last few months I searched a lot of websites and found some good sites for tracking satellites. Below are the some of those which I found good. Let me know as well if there are more....
1. http://www.n2yo.com/ : Provide live tracking of almost all the satellites.
2. HUMANSPACEFLIGHT provided by NASA for tracking ISS: This gives sighting opportunity of ISS for next 7 days.Just select your Country and then Select your city if available.
3. Provided by SKY & TELESCOPE, you can keep track of HST and STS alog with ISS