ISRO is all set to launch Mangalyaan, its first mission to planet Mars. Code named Mars Orbiter Mission, this mission will search for the possibility of life forms in Mars. The launching is due to October – November 2013. […]
Indian Railways, with assistance from ISRO, will soon introduce real-time tracking of train locations. GPS devices would be fitted in about 100 trains, enabling the trains to know each other’s location and thus avoiding collision. This will be integrated with Google Maps as well. […]
ISRO built a supercomputer, which is to be India’s fastest supercomputer in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS. It is used by space scientists for solving complex aerospace problems. It is designed and built by VSSC and the cost of this is about Rs.14 crores. […]
The Bhuvan, ISRO’s mapping application is now revamped. National Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO, Hyderabad has revamped its Geoportal Bhuvan (www.bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in) providing enhanced user experience. The Bhuvan team have now removed the login process to access the application. You will be taken directly to the 3D globe page wherein you can explore all the Bhuvan functionality. Bhuvan is poised with a vision to be a one-stop versatile Indian Earth Observation visualization system evincing the Indian imaging capabilities. Bhuvan visualization portal is now serving the global data from IRS P6 (Resourcesat-1)-AWiFS data. Updated raster and thematic information, Bhuvan 2D Viewer and Ocean related services will soon be launched. […]
ISRO unveiled beta version of “Bhuvan”, a web-based mapping tool like Google Earth (http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/) Bhuvan promises to give better 3D satellite imagery of India than is currently being offered by Google Earth. Bhuvan has a many India-specific features like weather information, administrative boundaries of all states and districts, etc.. Bhuvan has best resolutions over the Indian sub-continent. It allows users to fly from space to street level, grab, spin and zoom down to any place. Viewers can zoom into Bhuvan maps up to 10 metres compared to Google Earth’s 200 metres and Wikemapia’s 50 metres. […]
Tech2 reports that ISRO (Indian Space Research Institute) will launch a dedicated satellite GSAT-4 in June 2008 that will connect computers in remote villages across the country for accessing the Internet and transferring data. The […]
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