Thursday, August 13, 2009

Bhuvan is the new Earth

Bhuvan is ISRO's (Indian Space Research Organization) answer to Google Earth. Although why they needed to answer Google is beyond me. Anyway the news so far on Bhuvan is very good. It can zoom to levels of up to 10 mt compared to Google Earth's 200 mt. It provides multilayer information, images are upgraded every year (compare with four years for Google Earth) and has an option of viewing on different dates.
The link to download the software is http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/; but like all things Indian the website is currently not responding due to excessive traffic. They can launch satellites and develop sophisticated software, but some how they can't handle traffic on their site. Tell me if you can get through and download the software.

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