Workshop on Bhuvan (ISRO's Geoportal) at NEHU, Shillong
- Date :: 24th March, 2011 -
Dear E-pao!
Kindly publish our invitation for 'Bhuvan' workshop.
A one day workshop on Bhuvan (ISRO's Geoportal) will be held at North Eastern Hill University in Shillong.
Please visit http://nesac.gov.in/workshop.htm for registration, agenda and other details.
About 'Bhuvan': Bhuvan is an initiative of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space, Government of India, to showcase Indian Earth Observation capabilities from IRS series of satellites. The images showcased on Bhuvan are from Multi-sensor, Multi-platform and Multi-temporal domain with capabilities to overlay thematic information, interpreted from such imagery, as vector layers.
All the Ministries involved in managing natural resources in the country at National to local level become part of Bhuvan, because the applications are done jointly with them. This one stop versatile Indian Earth Observation visualization system can be of vital use for planners, decision makers, social groups, village community and even to a common man.
Bhuvan gives a gateway to explore and discover virtual earth in 2-Dimentional, 3-Dimensional space with tremendous value addition possibilities at user end. Bhuvan services are OGC complaint such as WMS (Web Map Service), WFS (Web Feature Service) and KML towards Interoperability.
Bhuvan enables users to share and overlay maps and geospatial feature data through interoperability that implement the OGC WMS and WFS Interface and KML encoding standards. Bhuvan's versatile tools support development of interactive applications for visualization, query and analysis.
More details at
http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in
Puyam S Singh
NE Space Applications Centre,
Shillong - 793 103
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