Bhuvan Updates: Gateway to Indian Earth Observation

Bhuvan Updates: Gateway to Indian Earth Observation

On the occasion of NRSC User Interaction Meet – 2014, Bhuvan has been enriched with several features, data products and Services.

Bhuvan 2.5D

Bhuvan now brings 2.5 D City Models under its Visualization Services. Bhuvan 2-D viewer is updated with 2.5 D models of buildings, Infrastructure and Recreational areas for 136 towns. Visit

Bhuvan 2.5D

Crowd Sourcing(Mapper, Android POI App)

Bhuvan Mapper is a comprehensive application facilitating user to embed their local knowledge and create value added maps through association with Bhuvan. This portal allows you to tag places of interest of various categories along with description. Visit Bhuvan POI app(Android) – Download

Crowd Sourcing(Mapper, Android POI App)

Pest Surveillance

Agriculture Pest/Disease Surveillance: Bhuvan Collaborative Portal, an initiative by NRSC/ISRO allows users to share, access and upload the pests and disease related information in a near real time basis. This portal serves as a visualization tool for the spatial representation of the pest and disease incidence reports.Visit

Pest Surveillance

International Disaster

NRSC/ISRO is extending satellite data support under the following International Disaster programmes: International Charter Space and Major Disasters to international Disaster events, Sentinel Asia Framework, United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER), United Nations Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2013 (UNESCAP) Visit

International Disaster

Thematic Services

Thematic Services is enhanced with following datasets LULC 50K 2011-12 (12 states), LULC 10K – 62 districts, Erosion, Salt Affected and Water Logged Area, Water Bodies, Urban Sprawl.Visit

Thematic Services

Open Data Archive

Open Data Archive is extending its services through Global Coverage products GAC-NDVI and new products under Terrestrial Sciences: Water Fraction and under Ocean Sciences: TCHP, OHC, Wind Products. Latest 2011 LISS III Datasets are integrated. CartoDEM data enriched with new version V1.1 R1 data.Visit

Open Data Archive

Disaster Services

Flood hazard Map for Odisha has been published which is prepared from information on inundated areas in Odisha during various floods from 2001-2013, Aggregated Flood Inundations have been intergraded (Flood, Tsunami and Cyclone).Visit

Disaster Services

OSCAT Land Products

Oscat3D Visualization has been enabled with Opensoruce 3D, it has no dependency on any plug-in. Enabled time series visualization in viewer having Feb, May, Aug and Oct 2012 datasets.Visit

OSCAT Land Products

High Resolution Imagery(1m) of Cities

55 cities/towns 1m data from Cartosat-2 is made available for visualisation besides already available 2.5m data from Cartosat-1 data for major part of the country. Visit

High Resolution Imagery(1m) of Cities

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