India stepping ahead with the launch of Bhuvan

ISRO has launched Google Earth like application called Bhuvan. Bhuvan means Earth in Sanskrit, using bhuvan one can see any part of India except few sensitive locations like military and nuclear installations. The 3D mapping tool uses images taken a year ago by ISRO's seven remote sensing satellites, including Cartosat-1 and Cartosat-2. The satellites can even capture the images of objects as small as a car on a road. Bhuvan displays satellite images of varying resolution of India's surface, allowing users to visually see things like cities and important places of interest looking perpendicularly down or at an oblique angle, with different perspectives and can navigate through 3D viewing environment.

Hyderabad based National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), which is a part of ISRO, had a lead role in designing and developing 'Bhuvan'.

Requirements to run Bhuvan:
(1) First you need to register, after registration you have to download the Bhuvan plug-in to access the site.

(2) Direct X 9 is required for installing the plug-in.

URL of Bhuvan website : http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in