Bhuvan gives you an easy way to experience, explore and visualize IRS images over Indian region.

ISRO is well known amongst space faring nations for its world-leading reputation in developing new, indigenous and innovative service oriented applications using remote sensing technology. Over the past 2 decades, ISRO has mastered the art of developing these unique applications using various spectral, spatial and temporal resolutions offered by the versatile IRS satellites and these have been successfully institutionalized in many important areas of policy making, natural resources management, disaster support, and enhancing the quality of life across all sections of the society.

Bhuvan is an initiative to showcase this distinctiveness of Indian imaging capabilities including the thematic information derived from such imagery which could be of vital importance to common man with a focus on Indian region. Bhuvan, an ambitious project of ISRO to take Indian images and thematic information in multiple spatial resolutions to people through a web portal through easy access to information on basic natural resources in the geospatial domain. Bhuvan showcases Indian images by the superimposition of these IRS satellite imageries on 3D globe. It 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. The degree of resolution showcased is based on the points of interest and popularity, but most of the Indian terrain is covered upto at least 5.8 meters of resolution with the least spatial resolution being 55 meters from AWifs Sensor. With such rich content, Bhuvan opens the door to graphic visualisation of digital geospatial India allowing individuals to experience the fully interactive terrain viewing capabilities.

States

Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chhattisgarh
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Orissa
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttarakhand
Uttar Pradesh
West Bengal

Union Territories

Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Chandigarh
Delhi
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Daman and Diu
Lakshadweep
Puducherry

C K Naydu

Bal Gangadhar Tilak, born July 23, 1856, was universally recognized as the Father of Indian Unrest. He was one of the prime architects of modern India and heralded Asian nationalism. His philosophy could not survive after his death as India came under sway of Mahatma Gandhi.

Tilak was a brilliant politician as well as a profound scholar who believed that independence is the foremost necessity for the well being of a nation and that to win it through extreme measures should not be dispensed with. He was the first intellectual leader to understand the importance of mass support and subsequently became the first mass leader of India. He realized that the constitutional agitation in itself was futile against the British and that, moreover, India was ill prepared for an armed revolt.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to India has given a new momentum to India-US relationship, but differences over climate change and trade talks may cloud their “strategic partnership”, mainline US media suggests.

“The message Clinton sought to deliver was clear: the Obama administration wants to carry forward the momentum in bilateral relations gathered during the George W. Bush years,” Time magazine said.

“But as a near war of words over climate change showed, there is much ground to cover between rhetoric and reality, and the fledgling ’strategic partnership’ is not likely to be an easy one,” it said

“The irony of the Indo-US strategic partnership remains that while the US may urge India to become a global power, neither country is ready for that to happen,” Time said pointing to differences over negotiations over the non-proliferation treaty, climate change and manufactured-goods tariffs at the WTO.

The Wall Street Journal hoped “the Administration was paying attention to India’s environment minister (Jairam Ramesh) when he told Clinton a thing or two about climate policy.”

“There is still serious scientific debate about the causes, effects and possible solutions for climate change,” it said. “But if President Obama is determined to tackle the issue anyway, he could do worse than listen to what Ramesh said.”