BHUVAN - ISRO's Challenge To Beat Google Earth

Google Earth and Wikimapia has been the most popular geographic information viewing program for the past few years. Now it is ISRO's turn. ISRO ( Indian Space Research Organization) has launched BHUVAN ( means Earth) a satellite mapping tool offering resolution upto 5 metre( compared to Goolgle earth's 200 metres and Wikimapia's 50 metres ) and it is considered to be a great challenge to Google Earth.
NRSA scientist developed the website http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in using the data provided by Indian satellites like Resourcesat-1. Apart from the high resolution images it will also include location specific information like humidity level etc.


References:
1.http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/
2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhuvan
3.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Isro-launches-desi-version-of-Google-Earth/articleshow/4887831.cms