ISRO’s geoportal - Bhuvan – Marvel of Technology
Bhuvan – with such progress, every Indian has reason to be proud.
This is one of the best sites developed by ISRO. I have used it earlier during development, and am pleasantly surprised by the huge progress made – this product now is a beauty, a boon for science enthusiasts, for agriculturists, data miners, businessmen, designers, students and almost everyone.
Features of Bhuvan
Access, explore and visualise 2D and 3D image data along with rich thematic information on soil, wasteland, water resources etc.
Visualise multi-resolution, multi-sensor, multi-temporal IRS image data
Superpose administrative boundaries of
Bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in
choice on images as required
Visualisation of AWS(Automatic Weather Stations) data/Information in a graphic view and use tabular weather data of user choice
Fly to locations(To fly from the current location directly to the selected location)
Heads-Up display(HUD) navigation controls(Tilt slider, north indicator, opacity, compass ring, zoom slider)
Navigation using the 3D view pop-up menu(Fly-in, fly-out, jump in, jump around, view point)
3D fly through(3D view to fly to locations, objects in the terrain, and navigate freely using the mouse or keyboard)
Drawing 2D objects(Text labels, polylines, polygons, rectangles, 2D arrows, circles, ellipse) and 3D Objects(placing of expressive 3D models, 3D polygons, boxes)
Snapshot creation(Copies the 3D view to a floating window and allows to save to a external file)
Measurement tools(Horizontal distance, aerial distance, vertical distance)
Shadow analysis(It sets the sun position based on the given time creating shadows and effects the lighting on the terrain)
Urban Design Tools(To build roads, junctions and traffic lights in an urban setting)
Contour map(Displays a colorised terrain map and contour lines)
Draw tools(Creates simple markers, free hand lines, urban designs)
Navigation map(To jump to and view locations in the 3D India)
Metadata for satellite images
Only in Bhuvan
5.8 m resolution seamless data for entire Indian region.
Global coverage of 56m resolution data from IRS-P6(Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar, Africa, South America, North America, Europe).
Near Real time weather parameters for India from ISRO’s AWS stations.
Wide variety of Thematic and Disaster Specific Information towards societal good
Data / Information available
Administrative Boundaries
_ Country
_ State
_ District
_ Taluk
_ Village
Raster Datasets
_ IRS P6 – AWiFS
_ IRS P6 – LISS III
_ IRS P6 – LISS IV
_ Oceansat 1 & 2 – OCM
Thematic Information
_ Wasteland
_ Soil
_ Ground Water Prospects
Value added Information
_ Watershed Boundary
_ Weather Parameters(AWS)
_ Disaster Specific Datasets
(Flood & Drought)
How to Access Bhuvan
Log on to https://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in using any one of the following supported web browsers on Windows Platform.(1) Internet Explorer 6.0 or above, (2) Mozilla Firefox
3.5.1 or above, (3) Netscape 6.0 or above
For first time users, on clicking the ‘ Enter bhuvan ’ button on the Bhuvan homepage, you will be taken to the plug-in download page wherein you will be asked to download the DirectX 9.0 or above and the Bhuvan plug-in . After successful download and installation
of these files, Click Enter Bhuvan link( placed al the bottom of the plug-in download page) and It will take you to the Bhuvan 3D Globe page.
Note For Firefox and Netscape browser users
While using the Firefox and Netscape browsers for accessing Bhuvan, on the homepage
after clicking ‘Enter bhuvan’ a separate window will be launched. You can fully use
Bhuvan and its functionalities inside this separate window
For all those who have accessed bhuvan earlier by installing the Bhuvan plug-in successfully, on the Bhuvan Homepage, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Readers may collect the Data for soil productivity and fill the details for all districts in their states(I have completed Kerala) and we can create a table for the country; and we have data in tabular form for all of the country, which will give –
1) Different states
2) Districts in each state
3) Area in each district
4) Area in each state
5) Highly productive area in each state
6) Highly productive area in the country
- the possibilities are endless, data is before us, how we use it for the progress of the country, determines how much our country progresses.