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.

Register and Download BHUVAN Plug-in