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ISRO Launches Bhuvan, Google Earth has a stiff competition

August 12, 2009
ISRO Launches Bhuvan, Google Earth has a stiff competition

Download and Install ISRO Bhuvan. ISRO has launched the ambitious project, Bhuvan which is a competition to Google Earth.
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Maharashtra Government wants to censor Google Earth

March 12, 2009
Maharashtra Government wants to censor Google Earth

Maharashtra government is mulling over a decision to censor Google Earth, post 26/11. The state government is of course, concerned about the easily available images of sensitive locations like defense installations, government headquarters,
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ISRO’s Bhuvan to be launched in March, 2009

December 24, 2008

ISRO’s Bhuvan Satellite, slated for November launch will now be available in the month of March, 2009. While Google Earth’s data is ~3-4 years old, Bhuvan will upgrade their data every year and also boasts of high resolution imagery of the order of 5 metres, which can be used for real-time exercises like disaster management...
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ISRO’s Bhuvan to beat Google Earth

November 7, 2008

ISRO is working on an ambitious project called Bhuvan (means Earth), a satellite mapping tool. Bhuvan allows you to zoom far closer than the aerial view from a chopper. If Google Earth shows details upto 200 metres distance and Wikimapia upto 50 metres, Bhuvan will show images upto 10 metres, which means
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